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Show YANKEE DESCRIBES EXPERIENCES ON . U-BOAT Remain 25 Day on Direr After Sinking of Ticonderoga. r By Aaaoclated Praia. , LONDON. " Nov. ii. Lieutenant Julius H. Kulcher of Frisco. N. C, who with Lieutenant Frank L. Muller of ' Oakland, C'al., waa taken on board the I German submarine Ueutachland from the torpedoed American army cargo ehlp Tlconderoga September M and was brought to Harwich yesterday by the U-boat, was wounded severely In the thigh when the Tlconderoga went dawn, according to tha Harwich correspondent cor-respondent of the Dally Express. He escaped on a raft and waa picked up by the U-boat. Lieutenant Muller waa I taken aboard by the same- boat, but' Lieutenant Fulcher did not learn of i his presence until some day later.. RAIN BRINGS FIRST BATH. " "They gave me a drink of brandy and questioned me about American troops and other things," aald Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Fulcher In an Interview. "I waa then taken to the forepeak. where I had to sleep with not less than thlrry-five thlrry-five German sailors who lived In this dungeon. The first bath I had was when a rain squall hit the submarine while I waa on deck. "On the eighth day of my captivity ftermsny -. - u..-e rmm lo Presl. dent Wilson and the eleventh day the submarines were recalled from the American coast. On the thirteenth day we encountered a Norwegian ves-. sel from New York to Australia. Shs was captured and sunk after he provisions pro-visions had been transferred and the crew turned adrift in a small boat 1000 miles from land. ENGLISH SHIP ESCAPES. "We fired sixty shots at an English sailing ahlp two days later, but two British cruisers oppeared and we aub-merged aub-merged to a depth of 150 feet. The cruisers dropped depth .charges and the submarine trembled. "On October 2(, when the U-boat was recalled, I had been on hoard twenty-five days. When I arrived at Kiel I was told I would be sent home by wsy of Copenhagen, but later two officers csme and told me I could go to England on one of the surrendered submarines If I wished. I accepted gladly and found that tha U-boat waa the same one which had torpedoed my ship. "The Germans treated me very well, but 1 have come to the conclusion that if a man can atsnd twenty-five days' Imprisonment on a German U-boat he can atand anything." Lieutenant Muller was brought bark on the same boat with Lieutenant Fulcher. |