Show An Incident of Sea War William McFee author of Casuals of or the Sea tells In an English paper Land and Water of an attack by a a submarine upon a steamer and describes de do- scribes es this Incident of th the engine room before the boat was was sunk For those those- three men the officers stood by for the better part of an hour The stokehold was empty the steam wa wu dropping and there was was considerable water In the bilges but th they st stood od by watching the tile speaking tube and the blind white face of the telegraph pointing Irresolutely to Stand StandBy By the orders from the tile bridge ge And presently present ly the strain of waiting grew oppressive oppressive sive so that the chief looking up up t toward to toward to- to ward the skylight said t to my friend friend Mister Ilster go up and see what's doing It must be daY daylight ht now And he went up arid and came out on deck dech and found himself face to face with a problem of some complexity For tho the deck of the ship was deser deserted etl and far across the dark sparkle of the s sea n. n hi hisaw he saw the boats era crawling toward a smear of smoke on the skyline |