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Show TWO SUBMARINES ARE SUNK ! IN ATTACK ON LEVIATHAN i I . a, ;t . "It was over in less time than It takes to tell it. At the same time the next nearest destroyer was perhaps 100 yards away, spinning around in a tight little circle and dropping depth bombs as fast as it could spill them over the stern. Presently a great oily blob of water rose and the destroyer curved away from the ship and went over to the first one to see what it was doing. The rest of them had apparently apparent-ly gone plumb cra.y. They were simply sim-ply whipping the near-by surface ot the sea to white ribbons. Living Wall Formed. "A big llock of Fnglish gunbortls and destroyers came up from nowli--re in particular and moved along ahead of us and on our Hanks. We reduced our speed lo theirs and our own (loci; of I wasps came up and formed a living I wall around us and we moved along j 11(1 to where an hour later an F.nglish j pi lot was picked up who took us ' through the mine fields anil into port. "We learned then from tin; commander com-mander of the destroyer fleet, who came aboard us, that there had been three 'subs' waiting for us. They had lired three torpedoes at short range, but just as the fracas started we had been signaled to turn sharp and beat it. We did. T!ie torpedoes skimmed our sides. Tivo of the submarines went to Havy .tones' locker and they kind of felt .that the other one was smothered the same afternoon." Germans Fail in Raid on Greatest Great-est United States Transport. CARRIES 10,000 SOLDIERS Eye Witness Gives Thrilling Account of Trip Across Atlantic High Praise for Work of American Navy Men on Transport Behave Splendidly in Time of Danger. Duranil. .Midi. An eye-witness account ac-count of an attack by throe submarines on the United Stales transport Leviathan Le-viathan and the destruction of two of the U-boats by United States destroyers, destroy-ers, is contained in a letter from ('apt. Charles A. Harmon of this city to his son, Sergl. Carl A. Harmon, al Camp Custer. The Leviathan, formerly th.' German Vaterland. is ilie largest vessel afloat and was seized by the United States when this country entered I he war. Captain Harmon is in the motor mechanics me-chanics division vf the aviation corps, now safely in France, while his son is a member of the ambulance company. com-pany. The Leviathan carried 10,000 soldiers on that particular trip and every precaution pre-caution of camouflage and zigzag navigation nav-igation was employed to protect it from the submarines, since the German Ger-man government is said to have offered a fortune and great honors to the commander com-mander and crew of the U-hoat that succeeds in sinking it. All Obey Orders. "Most of the men aboard were raw recruits," says Captain Harmon, "but when the emergency came the constant drill and training told and not n man disobeyed orders. Twenty hours from our destination, at daybreak, we picked up the destroyers In a howling gale, yiiey came swooping at us out of a Win squall like flying fish. Boy! They looked good. They are little, long. Intrepid In-trepid devils all engine and wickedness. wicked-ness. We were tearing along at high speed, trusting to luck not to hit anything, any-thing, but those little devils curved and circled and zigzagged around us as if we were at anchor. "Even with our thousand feet of length we could hardly keep our feet on deck, but they, with their L'OO feet or less, were simply doing the impns-Klble. impns-Klble. Seas too high to ride they dived through, actually disappearing at times. And when. In their circles, they fell Into the trough, they took a list that would make your heart stop. "They carry two spars about Ml feet high. On top of each Is a crow's nest, with a man in each watching for peri-copes. peri-copes. The gunners are lashed to their guns. They must be amphibious. The ride those crow's-nest birds took that day would curl your hair. Taking No Chances. "All day long it howled and rained and blew.' and most of the following 'night, too. It was too rough for U-boats, U-boats, but we were pitching over the bones of the I.usitania and hundreds of other good ships and the destroyers w ere taking no chances. "Any time the United Stales navy Is mentioned you just get onto your b-gs abd salute Just on general principles. When you cross you will understand why. They are there, those lads. "I went on duly in a troop section below tin- water line that evening at live and w a - on duly for '2 hours stationed sta-tioned ru a stairway where I could pick off r h- first bird that balled nil eye. Al out midnight the sea wont down. Tlu n we did expect trouble any minute. It was a tough, long night. Wo knew Mial If a ti-roedo ever hit in t h.-i I sect i n w e hadn't a cha nee in I be world. Al 'ive in 'lie morning I was relieved re-lieved Mid .vent up lep- idc, to tile I'or-va'.d I'or-va'.d uppir deck. It was just break iog ilaylighi. clear, no wind, sea as -loooih a-. g'as-. Six more ,!esroers had ji i i 1 1 1 1 Us some lime' iiiirtng the ni::lit and liny were cour-ing like I a ii I hers near and fa r. in gre.i I , sv. oopin curves all around us. Finally They Came. "We were roaring along In sharp ! zigzags, the ship trembling like a nervous dog. villi the best speed In her. I thought lo myself, as I took II all In : "'Well, this Is the lime and tin-place. tin-place. Now where 111 h - an- those doggoned I Inns?' " "As If In i nsw er to my ipiestlon the" uearest dest rover turned on her tail mi! shut slraighl nl our rill water as if to bead hipiiioI hlng off, at the same time firing rapidly al somelhlng the other side of her mid close by. Instantly In-stantly Ihe others pointed In toward us and came darting In like diving sharks. "The nearesl destroyer was not more than .Ml yards distant. Next It swung around In n smother of while wilier, mid In an Instant 1 saw tin- black slein of a submarine as it upended in a dive so close lo the destroyer thai llu-y actually bumped. Then the deal rover Mil back of Ihe 'sub' only a few feel under I be surface. U Do.it fllown to Atoms. "There was a lorrlUc explosion; II shook our ship as If It had I n struck. That 'sub' Just was naturally blown lo 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m . It almost cut the dest royer In (wo, nearly blew the stern of her oil'. P.ul that Is Just a part of Ihe Job tor 'hose boys. Their biiaincss Is lo r.ol 'subs.' What happens lo Ihcin Is nn-ther nn-ther mailer entirely. |