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They were placed down below, and one by. otte, closely examined by the commander to the system of patrols in the neighbour- hood. Dazed dns they were, and hardly
SECRETS OF U BOAT HUNTING. FRIGHTFULNESS AND ITS CURE.responsible for their actions, they one
and all refused to answer their captors.
Late that night they were told that the submarine was about to submerge, and, so far as they could gather they proccod ed below the surface for over 12 hours. retting to know that they were in con They knew enough bout the system of staat danger of being trapped in the belly of the sea and drowned, hideously, in the darkness. But not a man spoke.
During the night they were given some coffee and a biscuit each; and the wound of one man who had been badly lacerated by shell was dressed by the ship's sur geon. They lay in the sea-dacknces, listening to the steady boat and hum of the engines, and wondering what kind of of day again.
miracio could bring them to the light
She
NO TEARS IN ENGLAND.
MR. 8 8. MOCLURE ON AN- INCREDIBLE PEOPLE
Pursuing his study of contemporary civilizations, which has already occupied him fifteen yours, Mr. S. S. McClure is of a recent date, and has given a Press once again in England, says the Obasrter representative his impressions of the effects of the war upon English people.
I have spent, since the war began,” said Mr. MoClare, nearly six months altogether in Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Belgium and England. Taken as a whole England has performed the greatest achievement in history in raising five million volunteer soldiers within two years and in creating the arms, ammani- tions and equipment necessary for that
ármy:
the development of the reserves of the "No less wonderful, to my mind, is working ability of the people. What
It might be supposed that the activities I described in my first article would cover all the operations of the suxiliary floet. But the extension of their indom table little lines is one of the most coman tic tales in the history of naval warfare. For many months Bocks of sea-gulls hed screamed over a certain strip of coast in North Africa. It was littered and strown with wreckage and dead bodics from merchant ships, Allies and neutrals, who had met the German submarines small flotilla of trawlers and drifters was dispatched to these waters; and to-day that coast is clean us any of our own Hirose fell a viet in to the same submar- On the next morning, the trawler. The value of these patrols in the Mediterine, She was no sooner sighted than she renean has been grimly proved. For on
was greete with a bail of shot. one occasion, when their numbers were
interests me most is that you have, or, smaller, a trawler squadron was with stopped and lowered a bant, while the will have by the end of the war a million drawn from the mouth of the Adriatic army dashed up The commander of women who, for the first time, have had to deal with unexpected trouble in the the submarine shouted through a mega the mental and physical development and Aegean Fromptly, there were sub phone"Leave your ship. I give you uplifting that comes from earning money marines out through the unguarded gates were 10 hands all told-and were ordered will have, the four million trained men five minutes." The crew complied-there and training in work. In addition, you and more wreckage and dead on the anaboard the submarine, while the rose survivors from the battlefields, who will
There are Br bisli löngsbure fishermen
was blown up. After being given six have had the tremendous educational ad- in the White Sea patrolling or frozen in, biscuits each the crew of the Hirose were vantago derived from the physical, mental and others are over patrolling the coast put back in their boat. The survivors of and moral training required for soldiers. of Bulgaria. One of these tarry old skip-placed in the same boat. The submarine there w many millions of men and the Pictoria were ordered on deck and The most interesting result is that pers found that something had gone steamed away, and shortly afterwards youths who will have advanced from un- wrong with his trawler's engines. In
dipped away and sh true Elizabethan style, he got into his dinghy with two men and three rifics,
15 millions of the population will have work, a that something between 10 and important ecumonplace labour to skilled, and sent his rusty old boat back to the
made an enormous mental and physical base. But where is your skipper 1” asked the naval officer of the returned
advance.
wittched shores,
Scamen."
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views of
A strong galo blew and the rain drenched It was very dirty wenter at this time, them. There were 14 en crowded in home. By dint of buling out the water. small trawler boat, a hundred miles from
E' in the dinghy, sir, blockading they managed to keep afloat. Twenty hat and other places I have been struck "In walking through your cities of continually, till their arms were numbed London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birming the Bulgars," was the reply?-
They take very simple
four hours later at 6 o'clock in the morn by a new alertness, a sort of mental and Armageddon, some of these trawler skiping, they were picked up by the collier physical exhilaration that gives one the pers; and some excuse for this epic simpli Balinter about 00 miles off the Smallsmpression of being in Denver or Chicago,
Lighthouse. city and largeñess has been given to them
Their condition was then There is nothing so good for the mind by the Germans. For when a trawler is through, with the boat half-full of water
indescribable. Soaked through and and soul as physical labour.. sunk to-day it is usually reported from battered to and fro by every wave, they absence of tears and mourning. I have "Another fact I have noticed is the Berlin as guardship or an English war bad lost all hope, and were lying exhaast een women dhd girls crowding the rail- "ship "___ Why then, may not a Scotchi skipper regard his dinghy as a worthy ed. Their bodies were stiff with cramp way stations to bid good-bye to their sol- successer, at least, to the old Victory! He and they were hauled on board the Haldier sweethearts and relatives. There was knows, at any rate, that frightfulnessler with difficulty. But there, at least eagerness, Yeathing, lunging, admiration has been frightened out of existence in they found the rough comfort of the sea and tenderness on their faces, but prae- home waters by a herring boat with a Ench man was stripped and his clothes tically no tenes The people are beyond Hotchkiss. Nothing in more baffling, in-dried in the engine room. Hot coffee and tears, he offct of this permeates every deed, to the philosophy of frightful food and blankets kept them alive till body and results in a great spiritual exal- new than the fact that in the long run, they reached purt
tation. Ergland and France are not desperate remedies are always found for them all and when examined as to his British Empire is the youngest nation But the ordeal had left its mark upon simply renewed, they are re-born. The its most desperate manifestations,
experiences on board the submarine, the in the world.
STORY OF A FISHING TRAWLER.
The sinking of unarmed Gahing boats was one of the favourite amusements of Fritz in the earlier stages of the war. A CUTLER PALMER & CO'S, typical yarn was told me as we entered
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boatswain of the Victoria a man of over The English are an incredible people. year-eemed to be too dazed to give They are incrallen what you might coherent reply. All that he could call their slow and deliberation, in the Ficiorut before the crew took to the made up their mos they are incredible member was the scene on the deck of their immovabi bat after having the waters where it happened, a true yarn that is recorded in the oficial Ingbooks of sea and his description was that of in their implacability and their achieve- the auxiliary feet shambles, where six of his mates lay ment
It was on a fiue summer morning that heads blown off, others screaming
drenched with blood, some with their the fishing trawler Fielgzin left a certain port belowd of Nelacai to Estom The agony with arms and legs blown of; and Labadie Bank. She carried agerow of
in a chaos of escaping steam and wreck Rine men, together with a thilo boy named age, the little boy Jones lying dead on Portugal to arrange for some 18,000 work..
Jones- friend of the skipper. He hel
ader his arm a welfthumbed copy of "Treasure, Island." Prehaps it was this book that had inspired him to the adven fure; for though nobody quit believed, at that time, in the existence of the 20th century pirate, there was adventure
This
the bridge.
A DUMMY PANIC.
• The sink ng of these fishing boata sud denly ceased, except on rare necasions: and, for curtain reasons, it is now an ac knowledged fact that when a submarine sces one it submerges or bolts immediate- Details must not be given; but these the air, and it was only after much plead-smaller fish ng boats now form a class to ing that he was allowed to come.
themselves, and they are known among vessel, of course, was married, and used the other auxiliaries as mystery ships, only for fishing. For a week all went well.. There was a good catch of fish, Only one hint I may give here. There was one upon a time a simple fishing splashing the rusty-red old craft with shining scales from bow to stern, and boat shooting her fishing nets for simple piling up below like mounded silver fish A submarine appeared and gave The crew were beginning to think of their me five minutes, you swine! Im when at home, and their accustomed mediately there was a panic, which had Books in the Lord Nelson and Blue Dolen part of their drill in part. Two of the crew went on their knees for mercy, phin taverns.
and others hauled at the boat like men possessed. details once more; but the resultant pie ture was this. A dummy boat on deck in four pieces, and a fine-big-gun-levelled- In the distant, against the sunset, they straight at the submarine, attended by saw the silhouette: a strange-looking gunners of his Majesty's Navy "like gods ship. At first it looked like a drifter poor disguise. There were two Ger painted grey, with mizzen set. But, the man kneeling for mercy; and after they flash of another gun revealed it as a aubad scrambled into safety, there was an
They were about 130 miles from land when the sound of a gun was heard, by all hands. The boy Jones shut his book Fon his thumb and tan up to the bridge
where he stood by the skipper.
Marine.
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holished submarine, and oil upon many And oil upon many troubled waters.
The skipper hesitated. Should be stop the ship and trust to the laws of war and
Many queer transformations have been the good faith of the enemy The lives brought about by this war for there are uf, the crew, and the little boy who had not only longshore fishermen in naval 188been left in his charge, were his art niferm but there are also many mys-
thought. Yes he would do so, and the Suffice it that ath ng which looks like
teries, of which I will say no more." order was given. The engines ceased to thrub Then, as the ship rolled idly, he less, by the side of a thing which looks
battle-ship may be comparatively harm was disillusioned. The gun fashed again, like Noah's Ark There are more ways
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and he knew that he was facing an of producing moral effect than were The thin Johnnie above needs Sargot
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dreamed of in German philosophy; and which would help him to draw every
It was only & forlorn hope, but he have enough to say that certain mysteries from to the blood and nourishment would risk it and not a man demurred have made German warships run like from the food he eats at his decision. The engines rangFull Lares from a boat that was harmless ag a Sargol, to our mind is the moet wonder- speed ahead," and the Victoria began to they possess perplexes them; for they are ing treatment in the World-a soientific
mouse. Even the little knowledge that ful Flesh-Producing and Weight Increas tear through the green water for home. The submarine opened a rapid fire from confronting the most terrible bluff in the remedy based on the theory that excessive two powerful guns; and the first to fall gamble of war, the bluff that is backed by thinness comes from imperfect food assimi was the little hd Jones,
realities Passengers on American and lation; that the sugars, fats, albuminoids The skipper kept steadily on his course, neutral liners with their flags flying, and starches in your food are passing out but wise precaution their rafts ready of your body to day just as live coaj shakes with the boy dead at his feet. But the and their boats well stecked with food out of a wide grote when only partly-con- submarine gained rapidly and continued and water I have seen there heaving a
sumed. It's up to you. Stop this feari to pour a devastating fire on the helpless sigh of content at the sight of British treatment aid your poor disordered out. waste with Sargol. Let this new-found craft. The skipper was struck next and man-of-war which was not really a man of kilter intestinal mechipco tuền blown to pieces. The bridge was a mass of war at all foaming ahead of them; all this flesh-making food you put in your of bloody wreckage and tore flesh. Tho
next shell shattered the tiny engine-room while all around, from sky-line to sky mouth each day in its proper channals and killed the engine-man The Fictoria line, the sea was dotted with insignific where your blood can carry it to every lay at the mercy of the enemy.
ant and hardly noted brown-sailed craft part of
The
The submarine continued to close on the ships of Drake and Hawkins, load her, and kept up a rapid fire, billing theed with unimagined thunder bolts, the mato and another cnginamas and severe world patrolling battle fleets of England. ly wounding another. The four men who were left tried to save themselves. boat had been smashed to splinters, and they jumped into the water with planks. Careless of the men in the water, the submarine steamed up alongside the Fire | toria and sealed her fate by placing bombs The Russian military authorities hate aboard her. There was a violent exple sion and her wreckage, strewn over the face of the waters, far and near, was the only relic of her existence.G
GERMAN BRUTILITY.
Not till nearly two hours after this were the four numbed and helpless men in the water takes aboard the submarine.
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