Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-11 | Page 8 | Eight Undersea Boats Trapped

EIGHT UNDERSEA Caught by the British at the Time of Maneuvers in December. Athens, Dec. 2G (Associated PreSB correspondence). How eight German submarines that sot out to attack the British great fleet were either destroyed de-stroyed or captured was described In a story told by Lord Kitchener on his recent visit here. No public account of the affair was over given. rWhon the maneuvers of the great fleet wore held about a month ago north of Scotland," said Lord Kitchener, Kitchen-er, "eight German submarines of the newest and strongest typo went out with tho purpose of getting to tho fleet and, playing havoc with tho maneuvers. man-euvers. One came to grief in our North sea net. Tho others nosed through and approached our fleet. But there was another net heading them off They tried to break through to get around, to find an opening. But thero was none. Two more were lost in this effort. Finally the remainder decided to return to their base at Helgoland. "But thoy could no longer find tho way out. The gate and the not had been closed. Two more wero lost desperately trying to get through. Tho remaining thrco were forced to come to the surface and surrender themselves them-selves We took them intact crews, submarines and all " Speaking of the British war minis tor's visit, the Greek monarch said to the Associated Press correspondent: "I am a soldier Kitchener is a soldier. sol-dier. TVe speak tho same language and we understood one another perfectly per-fectly from the outset" One declaration of the British war minister mado to Genernl Dousmaris. the chief of the Greek general staff, Tas not favorably received in Athens "Suppose the Germans do conquer Egypt," he is credited with saying. "Suppose they extend their lines throughout Turkey and hold the Eu-phates Eu-phates valley. Suppose they take India. In-dia. What then' We shall get it all back when we defeat the Germans in France. The war is not going to be fought out in Egypt or India or tho Balkans. It is going to bo fought out in Germany." King Constantine's only comment was "It's all very well for England to talk about what she will get back at the war's end. But we Greeks live In the Balkans."