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Show II WONDERFUL VORK OF A ii u SUBMARINE. We have heard much of the perform- ances of the German submarines and little or nothing of the British undersea under-sea boats during the naval encounters, but perhaps the most skillful maneuvering maneu-vering of these terrors of the deep has been by the British who have not exploited ex-ploited their work as have the Germans. Ger-mans. When the enemy U-boats appeared "off the Atlantic coast their great radius ra-dius of operations was accepted as unprecedented, un-precedented, and .yet E-14, as early as ; H1916, when the attack was made on Gallipoli by the Anzacs, left an Eng-j Eng-j "Hsu port, passed through the Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, entered tho Dardanelles against a strong current, passed mines, torpedo tubes, searchlights, nets and gunboats and began operations in tho Sea of Marmora, whore it remained three weeks, sinking Turkish ships. An official statement of the operations opera-tions of this submarine supplies the information that the passage df the narrows of the Dardanelles was made j through a Turkish mine, field. During I the first 64 hours of the voyage the j E-14 was diving for 44 hours and 50 I minutes. She escaped from a si.iall steamboat, the crew of which endeav-I endeav-I ored to catch her periscope, and also 1 j from the searchlight and guns of a ' I (ort, and from three pairs of trawl- ers -who made their sweep right over ' I her. After she began her patrol work, 1 I .there was more than one day .on which I she was under fire the whole day, ex- J I cept when she dived from time to I irae. Ofter she found herself danger-I danger-I misly near to Turkish torpedo boats. I and could not understand why they did I not attempt to ram her. The difi-I difi-I 6ulty of using her torpedoes was ex-I ex-I treme; but sho succeeded in hitting I and sinking two transports, one of I which was 1500 yards distant and es-I es-I Corted by three destroyers. Finally, I when, after twenty-two days patrolling, I I aho began her return voyage, she was I I shepherded by a Turkish gunboat, a1 I tprpedo-boat, and a tug, one each side j of her and one astern, and all hoping to catch her in the net; but by deep diving she escaped them, and cleared the net and the minefield at a speed of seven knots. Her second patrol extended over twenty-three days. This time the' tide was stronger and the weather less favorable. fa-vorable. One day it was too rough to bring the boat alongside a brigantlno which had surrendered; whereupon Lieutenant R. W. Lawrence swam off to the prize, boarded her alone, and burned her with her own matches and paraffin. Next day a steamer was torpedoed at 750 yards as she lay off a pier, and nearly two hours later her destruction was completed by a second hit. The total number of steamers, grain dhows, and provision ships sunk on this patrol amounted to no less than ten, and the return voyage was successfully accomplished, the boat tearing clean through an obstruction off Bokali Kalessi. The tihrd patrol was again twenty- two days. An hour after starting, E 14 had her foremost hydroplane fouled by an obstruction which jammed it for the moment and threw the ship eight points off her course. After a quick scrape, she got clear, but found afterwards after-wards that her guard-wire was nearly cut through. On this trip the wireless apparatus was for a time out of order, or-der, but was successfully repaired; eight food ships were burned or sunk, one of thorn being a supply-ship of 5000 tons. The return voyage was the most eventful of all: E 14 camo full j against the net at Nagara, which had t apparently been extended since she jwent up. The boat was brought up from SO to 45 feet in three seconds, j but was, luckily, only thrown 15 degrees de-grees out of her course. For twenty J seconds there was a tremendous noise scraping, banging, tearing, and rumblingas rum-blingas she passed through what appeared ap-peared to be two separate obstructions; obstruc-tions; then she broke away uninjured, but with her bow and periscope standards stand-ards scraped and scored, and some twin electric wire round her propeller. propel-ler. The efficiency of the boat and her crew were beyond praise. "E 14 had run over 12,000 miles, and had spent nearly seventy days at close quarters with the enemy in the Sea of Marmora; Mar-mora; she had never been in a dockyard dock-yard or out of running order; she had had no engine defects except such as were immediately put right by her own engine-room staff. j oo - I |