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Show HUN CAMsNIS"" DDBBED1ELLY" American Sailors Promptly Hand Out Name for U-Boat Commander. HERO OF STORIES Various Stunts Per formed by Audacious German Off the Irish Coast. BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN BRITISH WATERS, Oct. 16. (By Mall.) There is a German submarine commander who is known throughout the American flotilla as "Kelly." His real name is something quite different, but the American sailors promptly dubbed him "Kelly of tho Emerald Isle," and tho name will slick in songs and stories of the navy as long as the great war is talked about. "Kelly" earned his name by his display dis-play on various occasions of a rich vein of quite un-German humor. He has become the hero of numberless stories told in forecastle and on quarterdeck. quar-terdeck. Not all of theso stories are true and probably most of them have grown In the telling. All that the Associated Press can vouch for is that "Kelly" Is a real individual and that there is some foundation for the remarkable re-markable tale of his exploits. "Kelly" a Humorist. "Kelly" commands a mine-laying U-boat U-boat which pays frequent visits to tho district patrolled by the American do stroyers. When he has finished his appointed task of distributing his mines whero they will do most harm, ho generally devotes a few minutes to a prank of some kind. Soinc times he contents himself with leaving a note flying from a buoy scribbled in school boy English and addressed to his American Am-erican enemy. On ether occasions he picks out a deserted bit of coast linei at night and goes ashore with a squad of his men for a saunter on the beach I leaving behind a placard or a bit of German bunting as a reminder of his J presence. His most audacious exploit, however ; if the legends of the forecastle are to be believed was a trip which he made several months ago to Dublin" where he stayed two days at a lead-1 ing hotel, afterwards joining his U-j boat somewhere up the west coast. He is said to have informed the British of his visit by leaving his receipted hotel bill attached to one of their buoys. Still one of "Kelly's" more recent stunts was to plant the German nag on a rising on the coast line. It was the first time that the British and Americans knew Just where he and ' his men had set foot and they shared the excitement of the village folk who awoke one morning to find a new kind of flag flying from their native Foil. At first they could not make out just what It was. Fishermen Are Furious. But when they made 3Ure that it i was the German colors they were fur- ious for it so happened, so the story ' goes, that the fishermen along this particular par-ticular strip of coast, had suffered much from submarine raids. U-boats had shelled their boats, Germans had stolen their fish their only means of livelihood and left them empty handed hand-ed after a week's hard catch of mackerel. mack-erel. These pocr fisher folk we'reMn I no mood for this latest display of j German humor so they, according to ! reports, promptly burned the flag and set a watch for "Kelly." oo- |