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Show I? f THREE SECTION SATURDAY OCTOBER . 5 101S MIMGNEWS. , pf SALT LAKE CITY , i- EIGHT TAGES UTAH - Looking Tramps and Wind Jammers With Conceded Sting Fighting Crew Lie'sDoggo While Panic Party Abandons Ship Standing StUl Are Terror of the Submarine-Inno- cent Jnh Whn the Gunner's ChdncrXttfesNany-Saifrm- r g a or Shelled, ... Disguised rrrFttiirrmrn and Colliers Rush to Volunteer for Most Dangerous Job in Sea , , Jo Be Torpedoed if from No Quarter Enemy Captured , and Many Chances of Death and Kfutilation Even if Successful Old Man's Crept Story of One QBoat Fig fit. Warfare n.Roats Nerve-Rachin- marine. Bui. bis engm wasn't strong enough to , . a men or war, eapcumii? hold her. . . The submarine wiv then broadside on at. about 6 ouj yard', with both yuiT crew plainly' nsijite on deck and several figures on the bridge. That waa what made the hair stand up on the Insolence . of hack of the Old .Mans ncck-r-th- e Hose Germans walking about freely and mdifter sntiy as ;f their dirty btiMitfs gave litem a right 4a use Englandseas! At 6,000- - yards, the submarine opened fire, yung its forward gtm on the abandoned vessel m the and its after1, -- gun on the yjiuc-par- ry and 4teuled aa msr-thern to a ptirposo of decoying have been they eUm eucce, but not until conpK-tio- t Thl It been permitted Ur mention them. Of Wtft. from paeeengef ljnersdown oinurt veeeets. have been converted tirto to email aallliig the ineimnt tikiri f H cWntl ftr the t'ith they nag until suddenly break out the White Q.b0ttWhnnhey L,UfKsea. battle-flaNo g oft the 4 - the British ,r alilte-- - - ' --- - ?nder atticK'they behave exactly a a mer a aue eaenillg nn Mira rfftW of for the as the panic-partL On hll. Their disguise is- - pertei hardoBTS member of liners, fitted out aa are detailed to act aa passengers, dock ia played. cricket even deck .htire ere placed and not more than cruising as of thrrew are allowed on deck at with streaks of coal Jd ihey are dhSruteed the sus-.'- .t , v. detail wbch could arouse akubmarlne commander, is ftegtected. sen tee la especially dangerouC yet snedal Service me who man them are ail men have volunteered tanun and far more fer'o-boouty than will ever be needed. The of logs contain aome of the wildest talea All on the sea. talea which would The accompanying article describes 7,u of the smallest of , jaojoie cruise by one thf a little al!tng vessel' opcratfcrtnthe pift-poe- y, -- hurled the Old Man down the- - eonrpanlonway, wrecking j.he little cabin below. Miraculously J.ha Old Man got off with a twisted ankle and afterward he remembered nothing hbout it, exrepf -t- hathe-iibrnarinV wasnsing a shell with s t tiroken driviBg 4om4, wUoe killy iustlinE mada ... Jt jf him pcitler. "Go on and get yourself oiled." Just thowg how a man's brsm works In air-tig- ht . tompartmenU hen he's really busy . NOT MEANT TO BE RESCUED. at , . (Special Correspondence.) BRITISH ROYAL, ITU TIIE A MEDITERRANAT yYV, BASE, EAN Septr2fc The good to many approach He. remcnibeted too. that about Ihe ltme th4 rest of his foremast came crashing dowft laid tha sea to trail alongside to a tangle of rigging.'ha . became of smoke badly scared about a on his horizon 'abeam There have been cco surface crift have aions when rome messing about to renie which, above all things,' were never intended to bo rescued. If you ever happen to be present when is thus rescued, you will overhear the a Old Man on his "deck express a few thanks to has comoon deck for the Ins rescuers, which-h'of expressing. express purpose of But in less than a minute, the a yarn of sea warfare is up the stone steps and Into the tall columned entrance of the Theain the darkness of a lower, BovaL Within, tre is likely to surprise you, he box, last Tuesday night slthongh It may have been only with him, knowing cheerio Anal a had Oat yon he waa going out. , that some time after midnight, At the tune, however, neither of you mentioned the fact. For the first demand laid upon special Service men is an ability at sea to look like what nd the second demand Is an ability -- they smt, down-fro- si burn-mi- ne -- proper r ? rsby. It got lheranifc in a hurry, a difficult feat on a subinarmes unsteady deck. Its first shell blithe sea a cable's length astern. Us second wad kn over Its third and m a showering hiss of shrapnel left a all down the maL Its fourth fell at lhj tkind'R'4 and four of the' crew lay writhing Its fifth holed her well forward and a wisp of sinok eyrled up from the scuttle. Its sixth! rr Medasrtfmean. ' d e !ns , j -- pid-pol- 1 nt ed FIGHTING A German Submarine Firing on Mial Its Commander Thinks is an Unarmed Merchanfman. als , nt -- Q-b- PIRATES AT WORK. Small Submarine Bringing News and Dispatches to One of the Big - Hon oo the beach to keep tbeir mouihi ehut about it. And tor faithful compliance with these demands. ' r Submarine e pin-poi- Cruisers. nt . smoke disappeared. Meanwhile the dinghy was catching it too. had pulled over, the panic-par- ly TheiF heads and the sali over lfie and was sticking it euL But the Old Man didnt He was 'willing to worry about his panic-part- y. lose 'every xnaabebad, provided only that there left to him. So he kept wait-- s was one gun-lay- er didnt'-hav- e ingconvinced. he said tonight, that Fritz As for whatever lum. sink to shells enough else might have entered his head, he remembered ir nothing except that when he heard the flock hei once 1:30, for tinkle cabin wrecked his thought, "Thats a couple o boh as good as saved. There really wasnt anything to do, how- -i ever, but to keep on waiting, watching the flash; wondering where of the submarine's guns-anheld .true unlit, That" to. was one going that when he had drifted some 2.000 yards from hi subdinghy, it suddenly became spparent that the loi now astern and ahead now marine. zigzagging keep' itself broadside on. was maneuvering Iff fetch the dinghy alongside. . That made the Old Man snek his teeth. For the submarines first inquiry of tho, would be a demand for the ship P- -i panic-par- ty pers. That would give the game away at once.i had no papers.' The panic-par- ty Obviously, the Old Man did not wjnt to lay his cards on the table until he had h& enemy at! as close a range as possible, say too yards, at, of a' submarine forms. th ihA lnnir life-preserv-ers a share in the Special Service men stand to win bounty, the D. S. C. and ehrooie neurasthenia. ' While the bouse is roaring its approval of Mfle. Muni of Milan, youH go around to his bout to congratulate him fi.e, if yonTe heard about it already, which, however, isnt likely).'..- "When dyon get in?" youll ask him. "Bout an hour ago," hell answer in a modified Glasgow for-th- e bnrr; and that will end the malier , present. Later on, when the Jade Sana Rio, in from touring Morocco, is lilting through the chorus of -Wb WfRyKet MiUy Down in Piccadilly," -- out a btt of battery with a brace o guns thrown. , swafn and Ms laHLof the crcw manfTested.lhe in, an if you want to fight me wi that ragin gun wildest excitement. From bis hiding place, the Old Man ordered altogether a craft to gladden the heart of any o yours. Til fight. But you better toddte off an sailor-roa- n. And along her rail, she bad certain keep away from me. -- There may be a submarine to lay aloft and they whipped buckets of water deckhouses. aroun here now. to the masthead to wet down the sails. They , , Her Cld Sian was a child of 25, who, at the bad a breeze dead astern, but the subSuddenly the trawler broke into a broad, J marine was in light condition and making ft knowing grin. ripe age of 19, had been graduated from the sailknots. ing craft into a little Cheerio," it said and toddled off. tramp, which could squeeze ont seven and a half, maybe eight. So she kept leisurely on out to sea, with a At R000 yards, the submarine fired. The shell well sweetened up. Her - light breeze Mill on her quarter and herOld MaH, exploded some 200 yards astern and the Old Mar still hidden in the coup anionway aft, ordered the stool, looking as if be had nothdinghy away. an trai and a chin on the back oil bis chair, to with teeth set wide apart, who bad topped off I? ing on his mind but bread, vine, and onions. And on the Newfoundland Banks with sit years the sun rose, melting the pitch in her snowy - The boatswains men came down out of the whisper as If the matter had Jost occurred, to him: - years In boata line. deck and sweating the rosin ont of her mast. rigging like monkeys, piled into the dinghy and as officer Plant Her the fourth Y otfa seen the when they come ty swain was late mate of a Deal drifter and he' And in tune, eight bells sounded, the watch was pulled rapidly off. They bad barely left when bank aboard to voice his a high whisper wore (lifting relieved, and the cook brought up pomdge, the boatswain himself came crawling on his earrings, one of which was in backward. and fluttering' ha arms). We got em We got And afl .her crew rolled when they walked, their eggs and bacon for the Old Man to eat off a plate stomach aft to where the OftLMan stood hidden Vml We got THAT sub! , , Crary as poir handw half-opas if about to etnteh a rope, on his knees in the shade of the dinghy. in the companionway. keeping his eyes on the And after that, yen'll both turn to the far more manner of men who have spent their . At six bells of the morning watch, which is submarine, which now was turning broadside on. the after important topic of where to go and what to do lives in an atmosphere of fish and fog. Early ft am. by your dining room dock, the Old Man What are you doing here? said the Oid Mad. after (he ahowr for the closing hour bepe is P130 in the war, some of them bad Jost gear and picked up a convoy bearing to cross bis bow. But Had to come aboard to let go tbe painter, and that makes the problem a ditft to enemy submarines. there waa no convoy ahoy about it, for sometimes mates and boats, sir, said the boatswain. cult ene So for them the war was not three thousand miles are deaf, dumb and blind. when they want to be. "Why didn't you cut the painter? Nice to the privacy of tfri box, be told me At seven bells, be made ont a black speck on his thing for a submarine to see you come back away.' acta what had happened to him since last On the beach, they wore a sufficing "H.M.S." horizon about a point before his port beam, also aboard to let go the painter! . Tuesday; for aboard ship, he is the Old Man him-- 1 and they went to sea m bearing to cross his bow and apparently pursu- on their navy There was a former action in which she had ertf fia the rest of the navy, the captain is the boxes instead of sea chests, - But at sea, - mg the convoy. He wirelessed dockjard at Owner, but on the be is the Old Han), ditty wore corduroys of yeiiow, red, blue and once, and in two hours, the thp dockyard They And this, as well as I can put it down on the green with broad scarlet sashes; and when you added escort of six destroyers circling toe typewriter, is his little story: hailed them, they assumed a bastard brqgye and voy at high speed eyes on the sea. "I was m charge of the picnic-parl-y, But sir. fame lime after I left Mm late Tuesday -- The rest of the their Shoulders, pretending not to nothing You wdl see happened. . In day shrugged are no ' (be tog threw him a line, the Old Man TheftOld Man wore faded overalls (a the afternoon, the wind shifted and freshened, presently, wdered to man he wiixfiaaa, and those black is barely a thing of beauty, but mild sirocco coming off the African coast. At PLAYING POSSUM. . . captain shapes who had been cathead the about waiting he i& Ekely to be a joy for ever), and he allowed nightfall, he altered course and bore to the when at panic-par- ty that is tomped to the brake stage your It . just roee and fell to r the half his crew up topside at a tone. For once west, bound nowhere in particular. And moct has been sent away and the action bids wcgianinrent of the irith iwbich only N of the submarine commander told the an evening the boatswain spent In the fore- - ''fair to develop satisfactorily that nerves are enemy toemte ngually accmnpantoa Che heaving up of captain who bad made him a prisoner of war: I castle, arguing the war ami the esb market with most likely to, crack. You have- - to He doggo Cm anchor. So Che tog and Its jtow mere Mack Jmew and a chantey-ma- n the wbat you' were from Ihe first. . I saw sevefi an, tT not knowing what Fnlz is going to do, but m the soIXer went Ijlack of the dockyard who could check a chronometer by lunar then, saw fiddler but deck me, before yoij on you men your nut and the Old Man, tha I in all probability be will assume called knowing to be word So he ." observation and show the young folks how- to sent away only six to our and will begm sheIling a are st the first sign Of leaving went below. you They stood off and, shrapneled her for an hour, killdawn, There aren't any of them use a marlin-spik- estood a eemrse when he begins shelling you, you have to And roughly a Hide south of south--'k ing or wounding every crew of her k left nowadays. Jon lying doggo in order to let him con-toe tog trailing the smudge of Its coal But when he Tbe next morning' at the first crack of dawn, keep himself except pne immortal that you are abandoned and that smoke across Che stars and dropping c kid era fad 0 vinca er was enough- she went to general quarters for a very palpable finally closed her, pne close-yo- u tke eyes of the watch astern. to sand off a boarding ho safely may slow toward the feather her periscope, cutting Well, so she vrent to sea. are too expen- For bombs. with torpedoes party OFT TO SEA. : of coarse the first thing She" ran into Was ' dead ahead. The Old Man took station on rt the she to waste on small windjammer. Fori-tbAt the. nrat.atrk of I aft, his face at a small . vA liAlnlAea fleet of brown feluccas, their earty- - companion-wa- y dav,u, the Oid Man Jiciug. jron hre absolutely and soft petals nf surrounded by the speaking-tube- s, like telegraphs barcarolles ihe t ew tumbled up; mtinuuL-for- elying a to catch morning are if enough unlucky that know you Jib for hts guns which usually constaysail were piled oo and the tug sound across the sesL Then she came leisurely you of guns oneof your shrapnel ip ei3t them, off. She heeled, to a black British trawler on patrol, which closed stitute the bridge gear. Its a weird p'lace frouj "splinter slightly, her cordage are done for. You know that if you catch a jrealing, the tea purring ag per forefoot and - hen at once, and hailed the Old Man, Now, the which to run a ship; suppose a taxi chauffeur in your auxiliary, the chances are against nmg aft hdo a modest write. Bo day went to Q -boeU are nobody busmes.' At sea and St tbe Should navigate his tari, curled np under the seat splmter you. And you know that if Fniz should decide rith a light breeae on their quarter and the base, they cosqp and go and no map knows of it, afl! Half the 'crew crawled on their stomach to their action stations Under the bulwarks and to torpedo you, your ship would melt tike butter; astr' camp stool with his chin on except tbe chief Of staff and the rear admiral and if you survive tbe torpedo, you also know na hands and his bands crossed on the lee rail, who owns and operates this end of the Mediler- - lay doggo about the small deckhouses. And the what to expect with tbe boatswain in charge, tumbled half, other T?n.eye peeleiL. fine; twofnasled craft, with (hat d tmitation of a see, the little windjammers, crew the panic-par- ty ship, prepared to stage a r!f1RS emptiness of deck which, at first, rather . naccary, atthough this morning she happened (it ought to become one of the famous auras cot at sea. converInto enter and they panic steamship mao. For tbe heresy cf to have mislaid ben), of the war!) had gone off in the dinghy, "" WSLRJ circled r But the phrases only ' thran, standing periscope loner 4 heresy fa the navy. Before ' sation With nobody. . I"0 ih little and the windjammer was now abandoned. As 2O0 circled them once twice off about yard aLthe only tailing vessel toft to the navy asked the trawler. "What shtpr external as appearances went. It was safe for far . and then drved, f coaTbulka and tramtog ship. Tbe nary no " "Tfo got name," said tbe Old Mta. to close the abandoned vessel to submarine were." the we wbat knew He artebee-n- s wtta' agatoat fba wtneto; Ik Where bound?" aboard. But submarine its Man Old called Secure and place So in time the Qirottle valve and lets tha fir room do Tforhaire." rv soon learn to be skeptical. They commanders course held westward. on she about her leisurely aside a muttered "Where from?" wffh nond tha man o vusho ' tha At two bells of the afternoon watch ft pun. if know today that ships re no what they seem. hicaoi.' Bba may bar hem 31 fishermen:' ,9. gory Of course, tbe Old Man couldnt toko off sail oM. but she went out to toeat fan toad know), she went to general quarter . , "Oh, aroun bare. bis on ship was now supposed to be abandoned, for black borizoo a her small dead for speck agsta IDENTIFIED. of enemy Origin. con tinned drifting wy from his dirothy so to not be see had until know it astern. it to .She pretended spread a The trawler waa angry; It demanded foresail, fh. ftytag-jiknots. He did start his auxiliary, seven at about with nor neither masts and a staysail; and, strictly insUnter who tha Old Man was and wbat he developed Into a craft L. Ms craft about broadside on in to tower bring a but trying ocran. rapidly overhauling' slack, conning mib od between ourselves, she doing at large on its own prrvate I'm totobtf ihetri about 12JX more to W JJ', boataider tha guns to bear on bis aub- -. away. Than, bnog yards auxiliary pqwer tor aa requisite. She waS Oh, aye, said the OM Man.. oak built and I copper-fastene- from brass-wo- rk with any amount d, her, wheel to her outwater, v w smglo-eere- panic-par- en after-theat- re ats be-tw- een 4 flat-ba- ts -- d y deck-leng- o-h- ata with-thei- r com-pren- de. panic-parti- es r Q-b- slng-eo- picnic-parti- ng es. - Q-b- sail-mak- er, dd-tu- ne -- panic-party- Q-b-oat man-jac- gun-lay- -- e eye-po- toe-fishi- .pusb-bytto- ns 4 life-ene- K lime-bom- bs - IKS-mod- mml, el K 1 - U: 1- to stow guns, it takes a secure hatches and submerge, 'and: Tn a half- -! minute at 400 yards it doesnl take an extraordi- -f to put two, or maybe, three shell?: nary Into a submarine- - And a submarine with two or) to its thin tin skin, is as dead three half-minu- te gun-tay- er shell-hol- es as Coney Island In December. However, in order , to keep the submarine alongside. It was, from fetching the pame-par- ty worse than a; to on this accept occasion nWesary iou.,wag - gun-lay- er. guns, diving. But rilDffeItxvas a slunrhapc.butjheri out F czf it. astern over now 2,000 was yards dinghy Bubmanne which bad suddenly e!aed an . 200 yards nIj Then the Old Man did his liUTe " JaH at once and in a twinkling, the white en- -j sign, fluttered to the peak of the abandoned ves- sd a deckhouse aft fell lq piece, brand new-navancient oak gun reached through warts, and the last of the .Mohicans approached submarine her little role in the 0 way nj quick-change. al ' teagi-comedy- .of wsrfsnt. Fire! You may hit him!" the Old Mart yelled to his fussy e''. ' But his wouldnt Firejmtil he had Lis .targeL For JO immortal, everlasting second during which the Old Man almot worked himself Intoh lroke of apoplexy, he footed with his eteva- turn. Then he trlpd a shot just to see how he was. the shell exp tod mg at the base wf the eoanmg gun-lay- er. gun-lay- er J v , v tower. Two wounded men of the crew clambered up t crack of the gun, onto tbe rail at the wtthvye!l of Hroor! Grve em brans In the threw back Jt dinghy far astern, the panic-par- ty shrieking with glee, at ' sails and the sight of two gtm Crews and the bridge gang, all trying to Jam Oienselvesat once down tito small conning tower hatch. ( . sky-floggi- ng (Cant mood aa r pa UeJ - v- V L1 A |