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Show Barbarous Acts of Huns Told 1 5-Year Old Boy Bluffs Germans COMMODORE SIR K, TYBWHITT, K. C. B., D. S. O., A. D. C. (at the left), -with his fla-g Lieutenant. Lieutenant Flyer, R. N.. on board the former's flagship off the coast of France on the watch for Hun submarines. , . - . - ..' I which waa my station. Until then T had i swn no submarine, but now heard it Tiring a machine gun at the other side of the ship. With a larger pun it shot I away the radio wire aloft so that we I .-ould send out no R O. S. messages. As i oon as we had Pulled away from the ship I saw the U-boat which promptly made toward our own boats and hailed . us In English, commanding us to come alongside her. We were covered hy their ! machine g"n and revolvers. We were in two lifeboats and the taptaln's dinghy. A busive Language Used by Germans. The submarine commander then asked I for our captain and told htm to come on ; hoard. wtUch he did. He was taken down 1 inside the submarine and e saw him ; no more. The rest of us. forty-three in number, were then ordered to board the submarine and to line up on deck. A German officer and several sailors were very foul and abusive in ihelr language. They ordered us. In Knglleh to atrip off "THE FIGHTING FLEETS." By RALPH D. PAINE. (Copyright. 1913, bv Ralph D. pine.) Mv -peclal rranKement wlr Houehton Mifflin Co.l ; our life-belts and overcoats, and throw i them down on the deck When this was done they prtveeded to 1 search us. making ua hold up our bands and threatening us with revolver. These ; sailors, white they passed along the dek ' and were searching us, deliberately kicked most of the llf-h:is overboard from I where we had dropped them. Keyond making us take off our life-belts and I OOStS there was no Interference wtth our j clothing. They robbed me of mv sea- man's discharge book and certificate I whirn they threw overboard, but kept four ' one-pound notes Boats A re Smashed and Cast Adrift. After .searching us. the ilerman sailor I climbed Into our life-boats and threw out ' th oars, grating-, tholepins, and baling Una The provisions and the compass they lugged aboard the submarine. Thev ' then smashed "ur txt" with axes so as to make fhem useless, and rest them ' "drift. I .-aw all this done myself Several Sev-eral of the German natters then got Into "ur dinghy and rowed to the Belgian Prinze These men must hae been taken i off later, after they iiad ranaa ke-i the ship. The submarine then moved ahead for a distance of several mllea ould not reckon It accurately bemuse It was bard tu Judge her speed. She then stooped, and after h moment or two I he rd milling sound like water pouring pour-ing Into tho Italia t tanks of the submarine. sub-marine. "Iok 001 for yourselves. boys!" I shouted. "She is going down." The submarine then submerged, leaving all our crew In the wirr, birring the ;i plain, who had been in ken below. We had no means of escape but for those "ho hail inanagr-d to retain their lifebelts. life-belts. I I rte.l to Jump elMr, but was etrfiod down wlttl the submarine, and Irhill I Oatnt. 10 the wrffcCV I COUld see "nti about a dnnen of nui mm left a flon 1 . In (udHlg -I young Ud named Harnes. ho was shouilhg for help. Finally Rescued by British Warship. I Iftsi fo him and found that he had a life belt on. hut was ftDOUl pars ly zed lth COW and Trar. held bint up during t he nigh I tie hrctimr unconscfoui find I I Dares Commander to Shoot Him After His Companions Com-panions Are Killed. INSTALMKNT IS German Submarine Atrocities. BRITISH and American seamen need not be reminded of the fate of the crew of the Belgian Prince. Among those who must earn their bread upon the sea It wtO never be forgotten. I-andsmen were horrified, and. aias' some of them were Incredulous. Incredu-lous. When the Qerman submarine submerged sub-merged with forty-three merchant sailors as captives on Its deck and tried to drown Oram all, three survivors swam until saved hy a friendly shtp. Thla was not intended by the Qerman assassins. Tt was nicely eon t rived that all hands should miserably perish. Dead men tell 1 no tales. The pa rty of mariners who talked about these tblngn in the Oravesend tavern tav-ern had ceased to feel surprls- or to exhibit ex-hibit sorrow. Death by violenee at the hands of a barbarous enemy had become as incidental to their catling as a gale of wind or a lee shore. They had almost forgotten that uhlp once sailed, unterri-flcd unterri-flcd and unmolested, from port to port. Believe Captain of Merchantman Is Dead. The grizzled, battered master who had been reading aloud now tucked the little pamphlet in the. old wallet and murmured absent) : "rVptaln Ha;n Ot tht fcelglsn F'rln-e Is a prisoner In iermapy. unless the Huns have killed him with starvation and negjeet f don't know but what If would ha' been lu'-kler for him to go down wl'h lils ere. He hailed from mv home port, odd It Ls, but I met him Just before he sailed that last time. He was low-spirited thouKh a .heerful man by nature and something was warntn" him to stay ashore. Yes. the cherub that sits up aloft had whispered In his ear, as you might say. PVom what he told me there'a no doubt in my mind that Captain Hassan Has-san had premonitions, ft sounds singular, singu-lar, so II does, but we've all had ext-erl-encea." The other nodded assent. The engineer engi-neer left a mug-of ale un tasted and began be-gan to walk the floor, his hands In the PO'kets of his blue eoat. He was a dour sallow man who had served his time In mall toats under the torrid skh-n of tronlc seas. 4000 British Seamen Prisoners of Germans. "Four thousand British merchant seamen sea-men in fjerman prison camps!" lie ex- ! claimed. "They wish they were dead I I'M lay you any odds on that. Ood. how those filthy 'i-rmang hate us' And we all hal good friends among them before the war. They did a rotten Job for the Belgian Prince, but whst else would you expect? ft was on. a bigger s-ale than usual. That's whv tt made a sensation The same spirit has been shown a hundred hun-dred rlmeg." "RigM-o." said one of the others. "I was thinking tust then of i) one lone kiddle that wn. saved from the Thracla. Fifteen years old hf was. and a.ilng fourth officer of the ""steamer. If you please. Heven of Urth hung to a iiquned boat, mostly wounded by shell hre. and all were waeheu off and d row ned except this boy. After a while the submarine heaved up and an officer bawled (j'les-tlons (j'les-tlons Ue name of ' he ship, enrgo. des-tlna des-tlna lion, and so rn. ' 'old - blooded, gh? Th tad all numbed, tdone, hanging to ,t rek of a toat ! U-Boat Commander Bluffed by Youth. "Are you an Cnf Usbroan?' this fine. I nmnlv 'ferman officer asked htm. " 'You can bet yur aJl bob I am.' the kid piped up. ( " 'Then I Miall shoot you, en Id the brave commander. "Hhoot w;iy and be damned lo you,' wav the reply. "This seeml to have nuaalad the Run. , i died w hlle I hoMin him. t then Innk ld life. bell mid waited fur d y1 Iff hi Ml f lime rinild hem no other men In the Wiiler. When flawn broke I COUM en thr Melfflwn PrltlC BDOUl mile find a haW away and mill rinstina. i began i to Nwttn In hnr dlrertlim, but hsd ivt anno fur n hen I saw her blow up. ( Ihoii drifted about In the lift-ball for an hour nr (wn longer and naw SIDOka on the lorlson. This atenmer vcr lnytng n courtv Mtmlgiit fnr me. havins; loan tha exp.alon of the Belgian Prince. She pfoVod 'f he a Britlafa nnval veiaal, which nlan fniind I he two other survtvorN in ths water. We were taken to porl and koI bsek our itratlffU) aftr h while. None of ii a hud glvpn the aubitiarlne cnnintntider and ' t ew any reaaon for (heir hnhn or toward ua And I make thU anlemn daclaratlon oojiaclanUotniyi baUyflnji it to American Negro Is Among 3 Men Saved. ( nn of t heae three aaataWffTI waa an Auietl.nu negro. William Snell nf Norfolk, Nor-folk, who had ahippad SJ a fireman In he ibdgian Prim e Having raoovarad from hln trying experience, he went a a rook In the Mrltlah ateniner Kenmofe and waa again tonedord and eacaped. Snell luid been OTOaaTnff t he AtlffOtld fnr I hreo yeara and the wnr lOtia WM an old itorVi It WM KpJ mlafoi duns to at utter In hi a BpaaOn when aXCltadi mn1 hla writ ten dapoaltion runs more amoothly than if he should attempt lo lell you the BtOry himself him-self Ohl Offtl fanny him. however, aa "lauding Oh the daCM Of the aubmarlne. teeih gnat taring, ayaballa miiiug, while tm Ittllttari In a anlpmale "W-hat yo' rerkon d-ileae ere fiar- mani ainiln' to dOi bbucldVT Bnatohln' away a man'a life-belt ilon't look ffff00d me nnhmv I kin awlm bat ter'n RlOff' men. bbui Bftar try Oral hundrad rnilaa mah WWlnd' liable to give OUt." Having i In m bored ahronrd the ailb , marine iiihIt lompulalon, William Hi tell awaited Hie turn of aVOntl In a mood of the liveliest QUrlOBlty daikened wild fore bodlnffa, and later daacrlbad tha tragedy In tbla datallad manner Two mar of tha ubmartna's '-raw atn-eft On '"p of the conning tower wfb rifle a It) t her hands WhiCn I hey kept trained on ua taVOtl other ("lermana Stood ahraaai of our una on tha starboard aifie nf the boat, armad with sutomfttlo platoia Th rapia in of t he Htibmarlnaa a blond man With blue evea, waa alan on deck runt stood paar tha forward gun. giving, ordars io hla oraw In Oarman and teiiing mi. on what i" do Pratty soon hi walaafl along In ftonl of the men of tho Mnlglnn Ry right a. (lie bny ah"ij1d have flung up hla ha rid t and htfWtjhl 'Is aniOrad.' The officer 'a OtffnJti ara rtffAad. and nt r ooraa ha had no sanaa of humor, so he BwWIed up artd retorted: " 'I will no i powdar waata ofi I ptg of ;mi Kngllahmn u l rown, vou lee Ma irio. drown." "Vlth this he rang up full Spaed nnd f-heerel off to look for another shtp to alnk. The bOy had laahed himself lit hla bit of wn.'kage and he tumbled about In the aea for thirteen hnura before a Malting boat fouiul libit f- was Inaenal- bta 'hen, but aoon came around again, aa lively aa a co' k-aparrow and putting on a bit nf awank aa an 'acting fourth nffl-rrr' nffl-rrr' who had slang;d a I Jet man aubmarlne.-' Startling Stories Told by Survivors. The talk wijng laiek to the Brtghin Prlnca, and tt waa soffgealaBi "The itewapatera prlnled the facte, but I he sworn eta temenla of the aurvK ora ought to be in 1 1 fntO a book for people tO keep handy by "m Here waa the chief engineer, Thomaa BoWfnffn by name, a truat worthy riiaii rla had aarvab! twelve years with t he Prince I .Ine anil held first datS board of irade certificate, And (be American nigger he' a rated Intelligent Intelli-gent and reliable according I" report a from Norfolk. You don't have to tell leafarinsj man anythlna about it, but landjubbera may forget. Taking the advice ( theae worthy rnarlnera of the CJravaaand tavern, "i fOUnd theae tragic dOCUTliantl among tho records of the admiralty and subrntl herewith here-with the atory of li chief engineer; Ship Is Torpedoed Without Any Warning. At 7:r.n p. rti on the ulffM o( .fulv 31 the iieiginn Prthoa was traveling along at leu kn'tta When abe waa alruck The a "ii I ha f waa I Ine and the aea anion th. II waa a clear day and uel barlnnlnit to darken i waa on the after daoh of ths ahlp, off watch, taking ji atroll and having hav-ing a smoke Tha donkeyman shouted out "Mare's a torpedo aomlnsT." 1 turned and aaw the wake on the porl about a hundred tards uway( I yelled Maming. but the wofrta were no mom than out of tin mouth ulinii we were hll. i waa thrown on decs by a plaoa of spar, and when i recovered i found the ahlp had a very h a v Hal to port and almost nil the crew had taken to ih boat a I got into the starboard life boa t almost up to my knees T pulled nut nu life halt, threw It over mv shoulders and lumped overboard. The other men djdn1 BMin to kno; what was going to happen some of them ware saying;; Pa i J No Attention to Drowning Man. '' wonder if they mean to dmwr, QaH About tet, seconds after 1 bad 1umP,sl l heard ; a suction a nf a taawal atnktaai and the ubmara hsd submerged i V Mraly, leaving (he rrew of the lisUUn Prlnca to struggle in the vvter i began to awlm toward our own ehro iv ehll ' ',Vrr ' )". mi mj took Mia ia otbw notf could lirr mum ntltpr ,-rlr r,,, il, . . 1 win In tho nlHht 1 '"It m.mrtlilni lik" , . " lrHnil Ml.. . When ,1b, .., ,, '.; " Sal m! I I o bp oontlnuad Prince, aaklng them If they had rums on them Me ordered us to lake off our lifebelts life-belts snd throw I hem un deck, which we did. As I hoy dropped at our fee I ho helped bis saUOra pick them Up and sling t In m overboard. When I threw il belt down I Mhnved It along on the deck with my foot and dually dual-ly BtOOd on It As the commander Walked along the line he huddled ua together In h crowd a nd t hen went and nulled t Im plugs out of our lifeboats which were lying on the starboard side of (be sub marine. Crew Is Sent to Torpedoed Vessel. When he went back to th on nine tower I uulckly picked up my belt and hid It under a big lOOea OllSkUl a hlch t was wearing when 1 left the Uellnn Prlnoe. The Oartnani tihi not make me take It Off When t hey searched toe t hUffffad t he life - boll QJ0SQ t0 mv hi ra d with one arm. When the commander returned to the rouiiliiK-biwrr, four tlerntan sailors cunr on deck front below and got Into mm ciipt a In's small boat which was on the port able. The submarine then backed a little, steamed ahead, and rammed and ernaaned one of our ufeboate, which had been eaet adrift The four men who had tumped Into our ca pi 'tin's boat now pulled alonfftlda the UelRlan FrlnOfi The submarine then uol Undei Way and moved ahead at about nine knots, bk near aw i could ffueaa, leavlni hpr four men aboard the tieiuian Prince and all of us. ev ept OUT skipper, huddlr.l timet her on the forward daok wntcti "as at moat a aahj She it ea tned like this for some time and i heu i noticed t ha t the water was tisims slowly pti the de, k until ii rama Up tO mv ankles I had nlao noticed a iiltie while before tnla. that the eonnlna tower waa rloaed The watai kept on ilnlns srmind mv less, snd when 11 g,.t |
