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Show I STALKING THE BRITISH MERCHANT MARINE, riaidinj the coast of England meant ttotain" honiDS.idiD.fc Yarmouth from 'Asppei'n'- dccompniau lest, hat .he Germed suomanne attack on English shipping gives promise of doing more to injure and perhaps cripple the Brit ish forces than anything so far attempted at-tempted h the Teutons England's vpry existence depends on the ships that fly the British flag L Her over-sea commerce destroyed. England would wither and perish. The British admiralty now faces the most difficult and stupendous 1 task of th war With German sub marines of great radius oporating a far away trom their base as the Irish Sea, there Is a poesibilitv of the finest ocean liners and largest freighters of the British empire going to the bottom bot-tom of the sea. Not only that, but transports are in danger unless patrolled pa-trolled by many warships The hazard haz-ard of landing Kitchener's new army in Franco is grontlv Increased. Searching out a submarine is far more trying than looking for an Km den or a Karlsruhe The new engine en-gine of war, after striking a blow. L 1 sinks out of sight and does not reap pear except to expose a email perl-scope perl-scope scarcely discernible at anv greai distance With a warship on the horizon, the submarine takes H I earning and submerges. Keappear itig, it again surveys the ocean surface and. discovering an unprotected ves I el. lies In wait for its prey like a panther hid In the underbrush of the forest. What can the warships of Great Britain do to stop this stalking of the merchant marine' British torpedo tor-pedo boats, hydroplanes and submarines subma-rines may enter the same field and play a game of hide and seek with i he skulking forces of the Kaiser, but the chances of success are on the side of the elusive submarine of the Germans. It is the most interesting phase of the great European war and one that may have a tremendous bearing on the final outcome of the conflict Hydroplanes are employed to fight submarines- Id much the same manner man-ner that a hawk pursues a rabbit The aircraft catches sight o the wake of a submarine as the boat speeds onward, on-ward, and, hawk-like, borers orer its victim until an opportunity la presented pre-sented for the dropping of a bomb English people generally mar not be as znuoh disturbed over this submarine sub-marine activity as they were when Scarborough and Hartlepool were bombarded, but they have canse to be vastly more perturbed and even alarmed ru , |
