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Show ezra chandler sees u-boat sent to bottom' One of the Interesting experiences! enjoyed by an Ogden boy doing his part in the war, was that in which a German submarlno was rammed and sent to the bottom, off the coast of Cuba, three days before the signing of tho armistice and which was witnessed witness-ed by Ezra Chandler, son of Mr. and Mrs. II. R. Prouty and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Huntsman, with whom he is visiting Chandler is a machinist's male, first class on tho submarine R-1S. which left a couple weeks ago at Panama and came to his home In this city by the way of Norfolk, Va. He expects to join the ship at San Pedro harbor, California; upon its arrival from the i Canal zone. I The enemy "sub" was sighted early 1 in the morning before it had a chance I to get into action against the Yankee undersea craft. The distance be I tween the two' boats was so short I that it meant quick action and the I Yankees proved to be pastmasters at i the art of activity, and, before the Germans could realize what was happening, hap-pening, thew were struck a resounding resound-ing blow which ripped the seams of the boat and it disappeared never again to raise havoc upon shipping along the Atlantic coast. Most of the time the submarine to which Chandler was attached was spent In operating between the Caribbean Car-ibbean sea and Gibraltar, also ofr the i coast of Brazil and near Panama. It was in this vicinity that the "U-1S" was to watch for the German and Austrian Aus-trian submarines. During tho cruise of liis ship on this and the other side or the Atlantic, Chandler's boat was credited with sinking four enemy sub- I marines, two by ramming and two bv I fire. Chandler said the "R-1S" carried a I crew of thirty-six and four officers. 1 It had a cruising radius of C000 miles without taking on new fuel and supplies. sup-plies. Its speed was between fifteen and sixteen knots on the surface and eleven knot submerged for seventy-two seventy-two hours, remain submerged for seventy-two hours without resorting to the special devices for furnishing air. He said only on I wo occasions, off tho coast of Spain, the boat remained submerged sub-merged over the seventy -two hours. Ho praises the treatment of the men in the navy and tho class of food they are given. Whenever the boat reaches a port, the best food obtainable is given the men. They are granted shore leaves at ports whenever permissible. per-missible. Chandler wears the gold service stripes and the medal for service ser-vice during the Mexican trouble, at which lime he served on board the battleship Wyoming. He has been In the submarine service for the past eighteen months. He was first attached at-tached to the "F" and "L" type boats before going with the "R-1S." One of the mates in the service with Chandler Chand-ler was 0. R. Paine of Ogden', who went into the service the same time as Chandler. They served together for some time and then were separated, separ-ated, now they are back together again. Chandler was given his furlough at Panama and came north to Hampton Roads on board a battle cruiser. He leaves on Tuesday for San Pedro harbor, har-bor, where he will rejoin the "It -IS." which is now en route north from tho canal zone. oo |