Show british navys y mystery A y fleet so called because it steals away buic quickly kly and brags of little it does GUARDS CHANNEL PASSAGE only three merchant ships ship hv have been lost loft out of af starting on the ta germant germans find channel too warm by JOSEPH vf speed staff correspondent of ta th new y york ork borla Wor orld lA with the dover patrol this la Is the mystery fleet that moors in mystery port it is tho the mystery fleet because it steals away quickly and brags of little that it does docs its ita mooring ts Is tile the mystery port because here are arc concocted the plans and hero here are many of the mediums with which the patrol has wrought its ita enviable record A rusty looking drifter may hold the secret of a tale that can bo lold only after the war tor for strategic reasons hero here Is an old salt calt who it if plying ills his trade of fisherman could now be making in a day in these times of high prices what my father made ono one day last week said a young fisherman but lie he cant join us because hes too old these drifters run across things which have been hidden bidden away in davy jones locker for a good thany many years and they also discover things thans more modern which perhaps accounts somewhat for tile the diminution in U boat activities tivi ties in the neck ot of tho the bottle as the british channel iannel cl is called work Is well done they are only one ot of tho the agents tor for counteracting the work of tho the germans I 1 have seen others in the mys mis tery port ilow how well ivell they have worked of df recent months Is shown by the fact that only three thre Wout out of a total of 21 OY that passed through the patrol were destroyed that means only one thing taing to the mind of the patrol the alio germans are going elsewhere having found the channel iannel cl a bit too warm it ling has been my mt privilege to see the men who are doing this hta work tile the ones fit at tho the top as well as those at tho the bottons bottom diey are men of few words but good humor out in tho the harb orlay a formidable craft one the germans of the lie belgian coast know well for many of her souvenirs have hurtled their way pre elpI into their fortifications I 1 was told I 1 might have a close inspection and soon had traversed tho the intervening stretch of water and scampered up her gangway to bo be received by nn an officer who had not long since been trying conclusions with tho the german batteries sho she might hove have been built on a concrete foundation for the choppy harbor had no effect whatever upon her I 1 watched the maneuvering of tile the big guns which were euld eald to make no poise inside the turrets but was waa a matter paragraph Iara graph deleted here by the chief censor 94 y 1 the admiralty who wrote in its place sorry but it had bad to go D B 11 standing on the bridge of this big biff wor vessel I 1 could see circling for overhead three or four airplanes of the alio patrol snuggled well under the surface odthe of alie water a little to the left was something gray that resembled a wanlo colue up for or a breath it was a I 1 submarine will sun war of the future be fought I 1 out largely by submarines I 1 hail had asked one of the fleets chief spokes men there might be such form of warfare or was his rejoinder one can never neer tell in this war everything has haa grown bigger guns destroyers tub malnes Mad nes perhaps lie said with it smile therell be a gun in the next war which if 1 placed nt at the proper tingle angle might lob job shells into america from roni europe or vice versa 11 down in a submarine in company with her commander I 1 was soon to visit the undersea boat which I 1 had seen from tile thu deck of fier tier ilant like patrol brother once inside I 1 was hopelessly confounded by Y a massof brass and bronze pipes so S 0 immaculately linnian clean they could havo well done the work of mirrors she too haddad had had a recent cruise and 11 lay ready ns as all patrols must bo be for any down and nt at em was tier her motto carved arved la in a alit shining ning brass plate to in a bous place her e common dor was acquainted with captain exploits in tho deutschland Deutsch land officers of the fleet consider it an advertising undertaking so 9 and a very expensive one and in itself a conspicuous example of tile alio un no profitable table use of the tha submarine as aa a we reliant ant ship we could go to america too but there Is no reason why wo we should make such a trip it necessary there was only a gentle movement to the submarine I 1 was token taken through tier her from one end to the other and camo came out after a final lost last look through the periscope with a recollection lec tiu of colls coils of pipe interlaced in an arabesque detillis det ilgis of atho triable intricacy we can be bd remly lcuy jo leavi in eight minutes said her proud |