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Show Utahn-Tells oiKSea Battle Allies SmkEnemy Vessel HisShip Destroyed O-Boat ARTHUR L. DUNCAN of Ogden, who took part in great naval victory. . --.;o :-. Vv . -J' I Shore Batteries and War Vessels of Foe Put Out of Business. ARTHUR I DUNCAN, an Ogden boy, who enlisted In the navy after war was declared, has Just given a vivid account of an attack at-tack that his submarine chaser made along with the allied fleet "somewhere over there," describing- fully the results re-sults of the battle and the feeling of ou r boys while u nder 1 1 re. Dunes n waa very popular in Ogden and was considered on nf hri hast base ball players In Utah. His letter follows: Tuesday, October H At 1:30 a.'m. we, the Americana, got under way. the Americans also leading lead-ing the way. We steamed until about etg-ht miles from the enemy's coast, where we cruised around, keeping the course clear of subs. Kvery one waa on 'the alert and on the Job. We lay U for about hslf an hour, when the rest of our ships were sighted and, after being called to battle stations, we steamed over to meet them and the performance commenced. "One of our dreadnoughts fired the first shot, which was answered by the shore battery. Prior to our arrival, forty-five of our -planes bombgrded tho forts with good results and also destroyed de-stroyed a big ammunition dump that had been trying to get for some time. Several of the enemy's planes were also shot down with no loss to us. We guarded the from sub at tacks, while the other divisions guard- i td the at the other end of the harbor. FIRST EXPERIENCE. "Practically the- whole crew on our whip mere eTpertenrlng thetr flrwt wn- IS . . I so lions vt berfi g under shell fire and, In view of the fact that we were between be-tween the and the shore batteries, bat-teries, their conduct waa above reproach, re-proach, not one of them ahowiag the leaat sign of fear, and In fact singing snd Joking while the shells from both j sides were flying over our heads. But i we tried not to forget our duties, as I upon ua depended the safety of our allies from underwater attack. EGGS DROPPEO ON SUB. "One ef the big t-1neh shells from the beach went over us with a rush and exploded In rhe water not over 100 yards on the other aide of us, and at the same time we sighted the feather 1 of a periscope headed for the . I We at once opened full speed for It' and went Into action, dropping 'eggs.' No results were noticed until we ' dropped a couple of charges at once and for the time being our was l saved. 1 THEY GOT IT! J "The force of the explosion wss so , great that a portion of the sub was t blown completely out of the water and, j directly after, oil came gushing to the surface In quantities thst took on the proportions of an o l well. At the same time a stream of black bubbles' rme 'n that vered an area, t would say, of about fifteen square fet whlrh ; 'was absolute proof of Its destruction. I Directly after that apother spurt of oil was obaerved on the ports Ida. which led us to believe that we had sunk another. The sailors on the .British ship say we did, as they saw two subs. LIKE PEACE CELEBRATION. "Just thought that our crew would go crasy after that. They sang, slapped each other, and Jumped around like a bunch of lunatics, but after all we could hardly be blamed because by sinking them we had saved a big battle bat-tle . Juat, about the time we were bombing. Flitch was firing at us from the beach, but his range was poor. At times we were completely hidden from view by the columns of water around us, but we came out with flying co I or a (By this time we had silenced si-lenced all but one of the shore batteries and the headed down to help the Mg boys, while ws headed Into shore to rapture a hospital ship, which waa, headed up the roast (she had not lrn fired on by any of uai. I ITALIANS ARE WONDERS. "A prise crew was put on board her and we started bark, but I am a little ahead of my atory. All the time we f were In action the battleships had engaged en-gaged the enemy ships at the southern entrance, sinking three and a few destroyers. de-stroyers. The Italians In their small, speedy boats were wonderful. They steamed right Into the very harbor and torpedoed three ships and got away, one of our -, after joining the was torpedoed, hu t not sun k, and finished the engagement. Her caa- uait.ee were killed and wounded, while threo were knocked overboard by the force of the explosion, explo-sion, but were picked up. ' GIVE SHIP BACK TO P0E. A few minutes later our forces withdrew, the bombardment being a big eucceee. This brings my story beck to where we were capturing the ship. We were very clone to landy at the time and you can Imagine our surprise sur-prise when we saw our ships lea Ting ua I wondered how It was that Frits was making no st tempt to follow us. We took our ship over to our' port, where It was decided to give her back to Krtts for unknown reasons. FIRST SHORE LEAVE. Today we were given shore leave for the first time and It was just like making mak-ing a triumphant entry. On every aide It waa 'Viva La Americelne, accented accent-ed on the last syllable. It was music to our ears, too, after being so Isolated i and I wish we could stay here. Rvery-j Rvery-j one worked his hardest to do his bit j and succeeded here." !Duncaa le on the submarine chaser 129 and hae been In other battles since j the one described. |