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Yanmati Kowloon
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GERMAN SUBMARINE COMMANDER'S
REVELATIONS.
ONE HUNDRED, AND
FIFTY U-BOATS LOST.
THE FLOATING "COFFIN" WHICH NEVER RETURNED.
DRAMATIC REMINISCENCES OF THE GREAT WAR.
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An American author, Mr. Lowell fore, and öfter that a mysterious Thomas, has personally interview. blank.
"It was a nine-days', wonder, ed many of the German "U" boat survivors, and in a new book. This dead man's boat had seeming "Raiders of the Deep," he givesly been cruising around for six much valuable information He months over the heavily patrolled tracked down such men as oficers water of the North Sen. It sound of the boat which sank the ed like a case of spooks. Naval Lusitania, and other "aces." mea could only find one explanation for the unearthly phenomenon, and no doubt the this explanation s trus one.
At the German Naval Officers' Club there is an inner sanctum, a suburine-room, the only place of its kind in Germany, which is i covered with photographs of sub- marine'commanders--the dead. The number of pictures was 151-ap proximately that many of Ger- manris Captain Nemos went down during the war in their boats,
They added the commander who sank the Lusitania, and the fresh-faced youth who laid the mines that sent Lord Kitchener to the bottom, and the one who runk
the British warship Formidable, as well as the three who took their last dives when they matched their wits against Admiral Gordon Camp bell.
No fewer than 85 commanders, we learn, went down in the "U" boat operations off the coast of Flanders.
The Phantom Submarine."
A ghastly story concerns the T-31, which never came back.. "Weeks and months went by and nothing was heard of her. She had simply vanished, and we supposed the bad struck mine. Six months later she created sensations as the phantom submarine." The narrator is Baron Von Spiegel, now a Ger man representative of an American
-motor car.
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Aboat above water nosed its way scwly along, Nothing: seemed amiss It looked trim and menacing, as if ready to dive and launch a torpedo at any moment. It was drifting, before the wind though, and finally ran ashore on the eastern coast of England, As- tonished fishermen sent out an alarm. "Naval men came hurrying, The U boat lay rocking, aground or a sandbar. They boarded the craft, took her in tow to harbour and dock, and discovered an eerie riddle.
"The boat, which was the Aage 31 that had left port that Friday, the 13th, six months before, was in perfect order. She might be on active cruise, save for one thing Officers and men were in their bunks and hammocks, as if asleep they were dead. In the log the last entry was, dated six months before.
The U boat) had gone to the bottom for the night, as was often done. Officers and men had turned in to sleep, while the cralt lay In secured on the floor of the sea. that case, me man would very like ly have been left on guard, but he may have been tempted to take A comfortable nap, too; a nap from which he never awoke.
日四廿月3年九廿百九仟暨英
rattled across awakened me in my bank below. I thought one of our masts bad fallen down and I scrambled up to the bridge,"
"There, right beside our boat. was a periscope. I had scarcely spied the periscope when I saw i streak approaching us on the few yards of intervening water-a tor- pedo.
A Narrow Escape,
Helm hard aport.' I gave the order out of instinctive habit. It meant nothing. No earthly powe could have swerved the boat in such a way as to get it one side or the other of the path of the tor- bedo. The missile was coming directly towards u24.
"Dreadfui, agonizing, momenta. Nothing happened. The torpedo passed under us, but not more than The Mystery Explained. "Poison gases, such as suba few inches. I am sure. The enemy, marines, particularly of the older seeing his first torpedo, jump over types, were Likely to generate, had four boat, derided not to set the crept into the places where the men second one far too high a run. He lay, and had suffocated them as aimed it too low." they slept. Then the boat lay on the bottom The compressed air leaked little by little.
As month after month went by it gradually blew the tanks, until, was buoyant finally, the boat enough to rise to the surface. Its resting place on the bottom had been near the coast, and in a few hours it had drifted to shore."
Here is a remarkable story of an event in the Mediterranean in November, 19 told by Domdr. Von Arnauld be among thing happened while I was dozing off Prince Sigismund and Lauenberg were on the bridge, when they saw at a distance of 40 yards to the starboard a few inches of periscope sticking above the surface of the water. A streak on the water- torpedo. It was coming straight at The distance was so the boat. short that there was no time, to manovre to avoid the missile, Nothing could be done, absolutely nothing.
The twe men stared aghast, petrified, gazing at certain destrue- tion, which was right upon them. The torpedo was perfectly aimed. It was headed straight amidships.
Like a Flying Fish... "Then the torpedo leaped our of the water. When a dozen yards away it rose from the water likë a flying fah.
To hit a submarine with a tor- pedo you have to set the missile for a shallow run. This one had been set for too shallow a run, and had done what a torpedo" in that circumetane is likely to do-popped out of the water. It described a graceful are and landed on our deck. It slid, with a loud clatter ing on the steel plates, kept on its way, plunged into the water on the other side, and continued its
A Fatal Nap, ·-. "The boat, the daily account showed, had ateered out of Wil hemshaven on one of the early 'U boat cruises of the war. It had encountered no untoward happen ing. Its voyage had been ordinary and uneventful. The record made journey." bundrum reading, until it suddenly i "The loud banging as the tor- broke off that day six months be- pedo bad struck the deck and
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There is one intriguing story of the winter of 1913-16, when "U" boat commanders were ordered to sink no more merchant ships without warning. It is told by Ritter K. S.
Georg,
youngBavarian kuighted for his "U" boat "sue- merchant shipping cess,"
There we were in the middle of the fishing fleet and quite unsus- pected. 3ly orders were to make. provision for the safety of crews, and the moment I gave -warning my prospectiva victim could gu scurrying away in the darkness. I resolved to try an experiment. called the captain of the Norwegian ship I had sunk. I bade him take the small bat with a couple of his men, go over to the nearest trawler and inform the captain of
Gur presence.
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"Tell him. I said," that he is to abandon thip at once and report with his crew to me, as I am going to sink his ship.'
Feat Bind.
It was all bluff. If the trawler skipper refused to obey, there was nothing I could do. My Norwegian returned, and with him the skipper and the crew of the trawler. They' drew up alongside the 'U boat. The skipper of the trawler had not
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"Splendid! Why not carry on the bluff now sent the captain of the trawler out, and with him one of my officers and four of my men They made the round of the trawlers-there were twenty-two of them--and warned the skipper of each to abandon ship and bring his crew over to the U boat,
"And now for several hours the splashing of oars reacended on all sides in the darkness. "We gather- ed the crews aboard one of the trawlers and then set about the work of destruction."
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Polo: H.K. Pole, Club Ground, 4.43 p.in:
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"Rigoletto,"
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Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Mails:-Inward European Europe via Buez (Morea),
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Italian Opera Co. "Tosca," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's The Big City." World Theatre: "Love Hungry." Star Theatre: Body and Soul," 5.30.p.m.
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Departure of HR.H. on board H.M.S. Suffolk.
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