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Show NAVAL HEBOES OF PEACE. Naial officers la every country, know tba f the crew .of an - attacking torpedo' or .sub-marina, .sub-marina, boat In time of war are doosaod to almost certsijf death. Of half a dozed trail craft which males a dash against a battleship battle-ship one might live Jong enough to lauaclt her bolt.' Tho rest would be sunk before they could even get ' within range. Yet the volunteers for torpedo. apd submarine., service serv-ice are many and eager. Even in peace the work is extremely hazardous. haz-ardous. It is sot long since a British torpedo-boat destroyer . was broken aKidhtp la a rough sea from sheer fragility, aad be? crew lost. The Preach submarine Lutio. which stayed oa the bottom off Tunis on Monday, la only repeating tho accident to the Farfadet last year almost in the same 1 place. For the crew it means slowly choking J to death la, tho. gradually exhausted air. a death far slower and more palatal thaa j drowning. New Tort-World. j |