Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 41 | Sharks and Gulls Follow Submarines

SHARKS AND GULLS FOLLOW SUBMARINES presence Puts Men of the American DestroyeTs on Tiptoe of Expectation. ON BOARD AN AMERICAN DESTROYER DE-STROYER IN FRENCH WATERS, Oct. 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Sharks and seagulls, the scavengers scav-engers of the sea, have learned to follow fol-low in the wake of the submarines and watch and wait for the food likely to come from the wreckage of merchant vessels ves-sels destroyed by the German sea wolves. This fact has been observed by the commanders com-manders of American destroyers and is used as a clew to hunt down the Hun at sea. The presence of schools of sharks and flocks of seagulls puts the men of the American destroyers on the tiptoe of expectation ex-pectation wnen they are hunting for a periscope in the path of American transports. trans-ports. One commander returning to port the other day said: "We saw a good many sharks and flocks of seagnlls and these, you know, are a pretty good sign of submarines. "After several years of sinkings by submarines, sub-marines, the sharks and sea fowl have formed the habit of following in the wake of submarines, knowing that food is likely like-ly to come from the wreckage. Whether It is cargo thrown overboard from the freighter or wreckage thrown up from the torpedo explosion makes no difference differ-ence the appearance of sharks and birds usually means that there are submarines around." '