U-BOAT VICTIMS.
JOURNEY IN A SUBMARINE.
WAR PRISONERS DREADFUL EATE
Router's Agency has received from a Spanish source an account of the adren tures of oight Spanish seamen on a Ger-. anan submarine and in a German prison camp These cight men, who have been 1 recently sent back to Barcelona, formed part of the crew of the British vessel Grazing, which was sunk on February th Fast..
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CONFIDENCE IN JELLICOE.
IL-JUDGED CRITICISM.
There was a very large attendance at the annual meeting of the Missions to Seamen, which was held at Caxton Hall, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Stepney.
Sir Edward Carson (First Lord of the Admiralty), in a message of regret for pathy with the splendid work which the absence, said, I am in the fullest aym- Missions to Seamen are doing with such Conspicuous success. I regret that I shall not have an opportunity of expressing personally my high approval of the mis sions in the interests of seafaring men, (Chours.) (
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on the ground that the company was con stituted for illegal purposes, namely, the subversion of the Christian and all other favour of the society, and the Court of religions, Mr. Justica Joyce decided a from us. Appcal affirmed his decision. The majoriy of the House of Lords upheld
The Lord these judgments
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The House of Lords, by a majority, devided that the gift of the residao of his estato by Mr. Charles Bowinan, of Many minds are speculating on the Ventnor, Isle of Wight, to the Secular changes that the war will introduce Society (Ltd.) was valid. The society is
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Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, in a message until this war the life of a foreign coun- and action. half an hour's time," states one of the sorry to tell you that I shall not be able habits and tastes of the travelled
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and use. Spaniards, we saw a submarine coming to attend the meeting in Caxton Hall. I towards us. We shouted We are need hardly say that I wish the meeting classes are largely formed and modified Spaniards, we are Spaniards). Bave us I' The submarine came near to us, and many every possible success. (Cheers.) by their experience of foreign countries, everyone knows that in almost every Mr. Andrew Fisher (High Commission nation the effect of travel can of the crew were on its platform looking
Four Million Families all over the world supply their needs. at us and laughing at our struggles Weer for Australia) wrote in commendation recognized distinetly within a certain bo expected to be picked up quickly, but no, of the work of the missions, and testified limited circle. The war has brought this we still had to remain in the water an
as to how much it meant to the men and experience to millions of men, intro
WHY DON'T YOU? other ten minutes while the submarine boys who went to the Australian ports.
The secretary announced that he had an ordinary visitors but as comrades and ducing them their neighbours, and not sofficers prepared their cameras to photo- us Enving done they pro-
received from the office of the High reded to save was hy drew lifeche misioner for Cuando a commini con triads. The normal Englisimman of attached to ropes and got us on board. We stating that the British Sailors' Rehef exceptional Englishman was yesterday had now been fighting against death for Fund of Canada had prompted a move- three-quarters of an hour. We were in-eat in the Dominion as an expression of to note what is going on around them Those who have the time and the mind mediately made to go below through the gratitude to British sailors of the role in that strange and friendly invasion after hatch to the part of the submarine sum collected £50,000 had been forwarded believe that the soldier when he returns bo Sir George Potley, who had sont a sing ammunition. In this floating prison cheque for $2,500, the amount allotted to will expect more of his home than he and
we found two companions In
to expect before the war, They are not that society. (Choers.) - ARM fortune, the captains of two English
The chairman remarked that during thinking of the large and unexpected teamers sunk by the same subinarine.
the war, the merchant service had been awakenings that the arat knowledge of a lifted up into the heroian and splendour imagination. They are thinking solely of country often brings to the Adaural Sir Robert Lowry
wiy expressed
effects of their taste of French life on the British soldiers standard of comfort regret at the absence of Sir Jellicoe, and
Those men have left a country where the certain sections of the Press are Baid
art of making min comfortable in hie trial revolution. A
used for discharging torpedoes and stor
mis-
The monotorious but not tranquil life
was disturbed from time to time by a rapid manœuvre. Some vessel was in yaight and it was necessary to sink it They forced us to load the torpedo, an
of the grent conflict.
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the repugnance of honourable men. They opened the chamber of the tube, made us lift the torpedo and put it in. After wards they gave the order to fire, and after a few seconds of anxiety we heard. a formidable explosion. The German seamen jumped, laughed, and sang. They had his the target. During the twelve days that we were on board they sank five Fessels, among them a Swedish sailing ship which was sunk by cannen shots. Generally speaking we went down at night-time, and although submerged we always navigated. In the daytime we came up on to the surface of the sea, which, however, they never allowed us to We were aware of it by the change of motors. Our region of operation (that iz, of the submarine) was for nine days
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south of Ireland.
On February 5th, 1917, we started on the homeward trip to the naval base, as the German sesmen informed us. We went up the west side of England, round the north, and then to Jutland, always on the surface, and in three days arrived in One of us the waters of Heligoland. managed to see the engineer's diary, where the following particulars appear ed: Eighteen miles' speed on the sur ince and thirteen miles submerged 12,000 tons. Crew of thirty, and in each pago was noted U. 81 Four hours before arriving at the island of Heligoland they madis all the prisoners go up on the deck platform, and they photographed us They then ordered us down below again to the torpedo room. The port where we landed was not very large, There were about a dozen submarines and four or five destroyers there but all the quays and, jetties bristled with seamen with bayonets fixed."
girding and snarling at Sir John, the should like to say that the officers and men of the Nayy have the most complete confidence in hun. (Cheers.) They had
Another
trawler, re
he submarine began to attack. The first lishmen into the country where the art so The war has carried millions of Eng snot from the submarine went through neglected at home is practised to perfect her deck-bouse, and smashed a great deal tion Mos of these men live, it is true.
It was
It was, no doubt,
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Our Grocery List published every sixty days tells you the right herd. Chapellor, who was in far prices to pay for high grade provisions. Let us send it to you-five, of difficult to see how a change in the spirit Course. sion. They had to deal hot with a rule America is the only big market in normal condition where produc- of the age could justify a change in the
of public policy, which might fluctuate principle of the law by judicial des
No matter where you live, you can save money by dealing with us. with the ages, but with a definite sution has not diminished, prices are not inflated, and means of shipping the law, to the effect that anything hostile to Christianity was illegal. It could never be the duty of a court of law to begin by inquiring what was the spirit of the with hat, decide what the law was age, and then, in supposed conformity, the law was to be altered, the change must be effected, not by judicial decision, but by an Act of the Legislature, te Lord Parker said he thought the capa git must be taken as established, and, WANT OF RESOURCE IN THE HOMES. the conditions essential to the validity the most complete confidence in the last
Everyone who has studied the writings being fulfilled, the donce was entitled to Lords of the Admiralty, and they have of the contemporary observers of the receive and dispose of the subject matter, little more, in the present, because many teenth century, and in particular ther just as much confidence, and perhaps a great industrial changes of the early nineuntess her the gift was obtained by or undue influence, or there was of them have come straight from the seaworking-class documents of the time, will something which in a court of equity in They know their work, and mean to do it. I remember that no criticism of those posed on the donce the character of a (Cheers.) I feel very strong spirit of changes was more urgent or more free rustee Admittedly there was no ques mdignation at some of the things that quent than the criticism that women and tion of duress or undue influence, and, have been said, und mingled with that in no time to learn to cook, for they were that the donce was intended to take, or in his opinion, it was impossible to hold dignation there is a certain amount of swept into, the mill as girls, and that thin fact took, the subject-matter as trusts: contempt, because the people who say it new capitalist was swallowing up all know so mighty little of what they are the great war were aggravated by that absoluto owner. In his opinion, the au- family life. All the economic problems of talking about.
or an any other character than that Admiral Lowry then told some tales of domestic change, for the more scanty and
thorities were sufficient to establish that the hereism of the mercantile marine in more monotonous the diet of a class thee first object of the society's memorag- their contests with submarines. One more vital and important become the art trary to the policy of the law.
dum was not open to objection as con- trawler," he said, which was in north of cooking As a nation we have neve not illegal, for it did not involve blus ern waters, saw a German submarine recovered the ground wo lost then, and it although unarmed, the trawler went for is no exaggeration to my that the ad phemy. It was not irreligious, for it was the U boat, which at once submerged, her vantage our industrial population pos do any rate consistent with that negative commander evidently thinking that no Continental countries in respect of wages ous, in Pare Clegg. It was not in trawled would dare to attack unarmed as is largely neutralized by our relative want anti-Christian, but, to adopt the words
sesses over the industrial population of dcism which was held not to be this one did."
moral or seditious marked the Admiral, was armed with of resource and dexterity in house man of Mr. Justice Coleridge, in Shore a couple of light guns. The skipper was agement. When we go below the artiann in the baibt of giving way to drink. Not standard to the life, say, of the East End,
Wilson, There is nothing unlawful at withstanding that he was a fine fellow. that ignorance becomes a pitiful tragedy, common law in reverently doubting or One day he was out, and he and his crew involving a terrible sacrifice of life and denying doctrines of Christianity, how- came across a German submarine much
health
ever fundamental. It would be difficult more heavily armed inan the trawler
to draw a line in such matters according far one might depart from it in believing to perfect orthodoxy, or to define how or teaching without offending the law. The only safe and, as it seems to me, prac of the wheel, which was in the skipper's in camps, but such man resort a great tical rule is that which I have pointed hands. He nevertheless went on steering deal to cafés and estamincts for extra outy and which depends on the sobriety with the broken spokes. A second shot meals. Somo carried away the cook's galley, and a billeted, and many of them have been the teaching or believing, however crrone- men, on other hand, are and reverence and seriousness with which third went through the stern. the trawler sent two shots, which probably tender and thoughtful solicitude that Lord Parker, be a serious matter for their in reply, treated by French mothers with all the ons, are maintained." It would, added struck the submarine. At any rate, at these women would bestow on their own lordships House, unless clearly compelled. went below water. The old skipper, when sons. No woman in the world of any by authority, to lay down a principle After describing their journey to and returned, saut to an oficer, Well, you class can hope to compete with the which would preclude the Courts from arrival in a prison camp, where they
have asked me for a long time to give up French-woman of every class in her power giving effect to trusts, for the purposes of found themselves amongst Russians num-
the drink. I swear off it now. If I had of making a really comfortable home, and religions which, however sacred they bering about 250, the account continues:
been on the burst the night before the impression made on the British sol- might be to millions of his Majesty's sub- Three days after arrival in camp we Well that trawler became the terror of tentiveness will be
should not have hit that subniarlac diers who have known their care and at-jects, either denied the truth of Chris were awakened by cries from the Rus- the submarines. Afterwards sho was a come back they will want more variety in some of its fundamental doctrines. gians who slept in the hut. Fire had tacked by four of them, and her crew are their diet, more attention gmerally to the Lord Summer, in concurring, said that lasting. When they indity or, at any rate, did not accept broken out in one hut apart from the now either at the bottom of the eon, or art of living. And women who have an with all respect for the great names of others, which served as a dungeon where are prisoners in Germany." they shut τις prisoners who were rebelli-
Boswered so splendidly to the call for our That day six Russians, one French similar beroic doings of these men who be found wanting when the army comes Christianity is part of the law of Eng- damiral Lowry added that there were patriotic service during the war will not the lawyers who had used it, the phrase man, and one Englishman were under-wore formerly in tuo merchant service, home and asks for more skilful and more rhetoric, as truly as was Erskine's perora going this
The prisonere punishment.
land was really naturally called to be let out, but in vain. known whether submarines had been surik
not law; it was and there were cases in which it was not resourceful housekeeping. The sentry remained unmoved. No doubt
tion when prosecuting Williams:
NO ແ was awaiting orders from his he concluded, that the Navy is not
When we are inclined to sas
A REAL CHANGE,
man can be expected to be faithful to the superiors. Those inside the dungeon were doing much, do let us realise that we haveing results is the experience these not steal" was part of our law.
Another experience that will leave last authority of mao who revolts against being stifled. The Englishman broke the entirely different questions to face than have had in laying out their own money.
government of God." Thou shalt panes of a small window, with the idea over we had before, and it is almost im- The soldier, though the authorities talk shaft not commis adultery
Thou of freeing himself and his companions possible for us to tell the retuity. We with just satisfaction of the difference be our law. But another part, Thou shalt was part of The sentry, seeing him leaning out of the nope they are greater and poster than tween his rations in this and in former love thy neighbour as thyself," was not window, gave him a tremendous bayonet those things we are certain abous. Les wars, Ands it desirable to supplement part of our law at all. Christianity had
The wounded man fell like lead. A small but levelling us trust, the men at sea, and trust those drink, and to buy all kinds of food, tolerated chattel slavery, not so the pre- atruggle then took place. The prisonera Admiralty. (Lacers.);
who are working the sea tieet from the drink, and necessaries at the YMCA sent law of England. Ours was and attempted to get out, and the German Admiral Sir E. Fremantle said the hut the other day no less than a thou ideas, and if the national religion was not huts or the E. F. canteens. At a Y.M.O.A sad been a Christian State. The soldier reddened his bayonet again and newspapers were always making dis sand franes was taken in the course of Christian, there was none. English law English family was built on Christiare who saw with horror that the fire was in caseries, and just now they were very an evening, mostly in purchase costing might well be called & Chritian law, but
could be busy criticising the Navy. I do not 1d, or extinguished by the other procenat object to legitimate criticam," said on anything from tea The moby is spent we appited many of 160
but I think a little of it is beside the of the New Army), dolly cakes, biscuits, of its principles, with equal Justice ba It had done its work. The eight unhappy mark. There are a great many things sandwiches, to button sticks, shaving equaaly good government, in heathen com- individuals who occupied the dungeon which have not been discovered yet. Une soap, and cough were corpses, For an hour afterwards is how to catch the big submarines. We demand, these last on account of the pre
lozenges--in great munities. nothing was heard but shouts of indigne hope, when we have the advantage of thevailing camp-throat. The result of all tion. It looked as if a formidable outco-operation of our good Allies, the Au break would take place. The guards were ricans, that we may discover a proper the carelessness of the well-paid artisan is that men who have hitherto had immediately reinforced, and we were sur antidote." rounded by a number of German soldiers. antidoty or not, 1 feel sure that in other thing of the spirit of the Scotsuan or the But whether we discover that about spending money have learnt some The commander of the camp issued an ways we shall succeed, if not in finding Freachman. When you have a very small order stating that he was sorry for what an antidote, at least in iuding a palika-sum to spend, and there are infinite ways people used to say, with a end shake of had occurred, and that on the following live."
The war has produced what day he would allow the funeral of the
of spending it, the task of laying out the head, that no power on earth could victims to take place with ceremony.
your money to advantage becomes one of bring about-a real chango in our drink He most serious and interesting tasks of ing habits. Of course, if advantage is with simply revert to their old tastes on life, for the difference between relative not taken of the opportunity, these men
their return. make it their business to see that light But if the Government beer and light wines are available the change will become porminent, with un-
nation to let the opportunity slip. This erations. It will be a crime against the told benefits to our own and futuro gen-
fact alone is suficient argument for taking seriously the great reform with
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It was not all the prisoners who re signed themselves to suffer what was in vessels sunk, and ran from hut to hut well-being and discomfort in camp posed on them. The English, above all, asking for sweets and tobacco. Another seems at the time to make all the differ were the most rebellious. One day we day I also suffered a great shock on seeing ence between a happy and an intolerable were present at a scene which was celo the English captain of our steamer existence. brated with great rejoicing in all the Gravina, who had so far received no news camp. An English seaman, who already from his family, who came up to us to beg had one eye blind as a result of blows they bread. I have always bion good to you. had given him on a previous occasion, Have compassion on me. Give me a little that thousands of men have been drink Then there is the really important fact refused to obey two officers who ordered piece of bread, if you can spare it Wing light beer and light wine for several him to go to work. They reviled one certainly had no reason to complain of mouths. There is no doubt of the popu- another
mutually, Hahman invited theta to fight, giving them We gave him all we could there are estaminets where by a system and making the business of providing a
and fant, gi ting ting. We read tons of is, ook te respected his larity of Alates into bere by roam pathe ineinca obro it, ordinary General Modling such punches that as saw them for days afterwards with their head bandaged. The German soldiers
consequence, we
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What saddened me most were the to the German who had been in charge drinks with enthusiasto. Here we have taught with as much care, and thorough 12 to 14 years of age, all English except kindly. The German was overjoyed. There is no reason, if the
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