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HORRORS OF U-BOAT WAR A lifeboat with the name Cottinham amazing melodrama of this wireless of Glasgow was washed ashore at Port conversation between the Anglo-Califor Liskey bottom Up and broken to pieces an aud an invisible man-of-war rush- PATCHES OF WRECKAGE LIKE on the rocks Also lifebuoy marked ing up beyond the skyline
TUFTS OF FEATHERS IN A
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ANTS.0.8. 8.0.6. Being chased by a
HAWK'S WAKEY
The case of the Duonied would be submarino, S.O.S. Position, latitude so pretty good evidence for prosecution in and so N., longitude ao and so W. Steer- that toote court of international law ing so and so, at which most of us scoff, and thereby Go ahead; he is being led a dance, led immeasurable suport to the tenets and it is OK, to work for a few minutes of Germany. The lined was a vessel now, altering course to south. of some three thousand tons, built of steel it Greenock and bound from Liver. Are you the Cryptic). He is rapidly **Yes, Stoer so and so and keep me pool for Shanghai with general cargo overtaking us. On August 22nd, the weather being fine
informed. and clear with a slight sen, she was sail- in full speed about thirty minutes west of the Seilly Islands, Al 0.45 am, a sub-fired marine was sighted about six miles dis- tant, on the port beam. The helm was ported at ines to bring the submarine
****That is impossible; we are being
en
Where is the submarine!" "Now, ustern."
Endeavour to carry.
purtant.
instructions;
BY ALFRED NOYES] The ebb and flow of this way must necessarily pass beyond the range of any man vision. From incidents dia we are able to visualize completely solitary spar rossed up by a wave-we obtain clues to the moving epic beyond our ken. One mutilated face tells us more than all the swarning casualty columns, and a little wreckage touches the whole Atlantic with tragedy, for this intense drama is doubly significant because its horram is unsech, drowned in the deep reticence of the sea. It would
***Can't; he is now on top of us and be difficult to match the following pass sage from the logbook of a British mer At about 11.15 am the submarine can see his shots hitting us."
On your port?” chant ship
*** opened fire. She was then three miles. At this time and position we passed away. The shots fell short till 1.45, when Submarine on top of us and hitting through a quantity of wreckage, appa- they began to fall ahead of the ship and us. Captain says steering so and so. rently from a small vessel, and consist- eventually to strike her. They struck If he aliers course will endanger the ing of smalt ning boards painted her very systematically. First they ship" white, a small ladder, steral seamen's smashed up the stern, then the fore part Did you get message from the chests, and a small empty boat, Thereof the ship, and then, lost any place of Cryptic were many tine anteng the wreckage ap safety should remain they began to This was an invisible destroyer speak parently potrel tina, floating deep some break up the bridge. The submarine flowing from new point of the compass, painted red and some green They had un signals
forty miles away hot been long in the water
astern.
The third steward was dropped in a Them in a single grim, sentence giving red lump on the forepart of the slip. the key as with deliberais art, the log The master and the quartermaster were book closes : At 11.39 am the master killed outright on the bridge and the observed the top of a periscope chief officer was seriously wounded. Many hundreds during the last two The bridge now looked like a cross-S°C~ Vears of those tragic little patches have tion of a slaughter house and dripped- machid the face of the waters, and the with blood, sun shines as indifferently over them as over the tiny gray culta of feathers on Dartmoor where a hawk pounced upon
SEA LAW TURNED TO CRUELTY,
My present concern is driefly with the small open bouts to which the U-boats in some occasion--not on this occasion, apparently consign the passengers and crew, nien, women and children after sinking their ships at sea. Certainly no take in the long andals of our sea ad- venture is fraught with more pity and
The second mate then ordered the ship to be stopped and abandoned, for sho
obviously sinking. She carried four honts, of which two on the port side had. been smashed by shellfire a matter ento
1
Don't know who he is, but it is a sphinx.
"No. Contre said somediing about approaching you
"I can't hear him."
Steer as much cast as possible.". This was the Cryptic resuming her long-distance instructions and cross
antions with the calm of a doctor addressing a nervous patient,
If we seer hast we shall have the submarine abeam; we can't do it."
Please give Cryptic your speed. Twelve Envts."
“ MADAME TINO,”
THE CONSORT OF KING CONSTANTINE.
[BY ONE WHO KNOWA HER. ]
Constitutional custom has it that the King can do no wrong, Ungallant as it may seem, the theory has never been extended to the wife or Consort of tha pose, can do wrong, in theory as well ne King A Queen, therefore, one may sup
take a hundred shapes. Queen Sophie of in practice. The wrong she does may Greece has done wrong to the Hellenia people, for instance, by inflicting upon them the s Hohenzollern obsession, troublons thing among Democrats, When Greece wanted a Dreadnought in 1913 sho ordered one
be made in Germany. When she wanted & Greek to become a soldier, it was to the German War Academy that he went. Colonel Strato gos, the Greek strategist, even found German the best language for his Army Text-book In several ways, certainly. Athens degenerated into a branch of the Kaiser's Great General Staf. Nextaxas,
duct. So was King Constantine. As for the military genius, was a Prussian pro- his Queen, she has never been less than the War Lord's chief agent at Athens.
PRUSSIAN AND PERSEVERING:"" And what is Queen Sophie, the pallid dainty woman, Prussian and persevering, to those who meet her? She is rather ak Surprise Madame Tino can be altogether charming, with her quite delightful manners and pleasant voice. In spite of her soup kitchens and her support of popular movements, however, she has litle real Ampathy for her husband's subjects, and has never been a happy inspiration to the Greek people. She is essentially the foreign: Consort of a for cign King
As there is no Pallacologos to occupy Can you see your smoke hold on the Throne in saccession to the lagh funnel, red and blue bands with yellow Byzantine ruler, the Hellenes accept their star we are making your smoke. Anlier Sovereigns as a matter of course. curding to your position I am miles off yon, g
which sumarines do not inquire to closely when they are committing the bodes of the living to the deep. A steady pounding of this kind, however, with all its hideous accompaniment of wounds and death and bloody wreckage, induces We are the daytoCalifornian."
Have you many, passengers?" haste in the hardiest of merchant crews.
One of the two boats on the starboard but we are 150 men on board, crew
No
The Queen as so nourished Consta tino's mind with the might of the All- Highest that he is hypnotised by the in-
brother-in-law vincible sword of his Then, also.
terror. The provision hade by inter- vide was holed. but they did not notice for Plenso fire a rocket to verify post housewife Tino is an admirable"
Eight astern firing at wireless."! Let me have your position frequent Now firing our rockets. Submarine
water and twenty floundering, wild-eyed men, she capsized. The crew swainly. around her or clung to her aides, while the other starboard buat fought with its signals Abandon vessel av soon as own dificulties. Just after it reached possible. the water there was a violent explosion in the engine room of the Diomed, which throw up a great wave and half filled this boat also The crew baled her as hat ly noseble in order u come to the rescue of the men in the seng
As a last resource, enn yon ramt She will then give in. Can you see my smoke north-east of sou?
No, no. She is too close. We are stopped and blowing off
antional law for the safety of the past till after she was lowered. Then tion. What is position of submarine? sengers and crews of merchant ships, promptly filling up with good, green sen belligerent or neutral has proved to be as ready an instrument of frightfulness as provision devised to pruleet sleeping children in open cities from midnight murder Circumstances are always found to justify whatever the lawbreaker may desire to do. If ho desires to put men, women, and children into open boats hundred miles from land in a compara tively calma sea, it is obviously not his fault that six hours later a storm, should rise and trample them under. He has left them at all distances from land. some only a few miles, and others many stores, in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic. He attacked the Unicta with out warning, and one of her crowded open boats was left adrift in the depth of Winter from the 1st to the 5th of December, One man died of thirst and exposure:
TEMA
and knows how to look after his Royal Palaces. While she has a brain and a will, Sophie's psychology. is totally different to that of the Greeks, just as the King's is, per
At one of the Greek Legations tho Queen was pace the guest of the Minister athunelicou, The King was present, il But Prince Christopher was to come. the Prince, who had gone flying, against Constantine's orders, was late, so the Queen grew angry. She refused to wait for Innett, any longer! The gathering the dining thereupon adjourned to
It was at this point that the Captain apparently wavered between abandoning room. Later, when Princes Christopher The maddening, nightmare like confu-his ship and going on. The reader will did appear on the scene, the Minister gou receive him. The Queen was" "furious, sion of these muments can only be note the subtle distinction in the follow-up-in disaccord with Court etiquette, to imagined At Inst they were able to ing dialogue, the Anglo-Californian us nick up the men who were swimming an unarmed ship being chiefly anxious looked it, and remained silent through- Those who were clinging to the damaged to escape, while the man-of-way is out the repast. ⠀⠀⠀ boat were left, as they were safe for the anxious also to bng the submarine, if time. There were abong thirty-four men possible. The sea was still naked of help, though beyond the horizon great in the undamaged boat, j
ships were foaming up at full get was the encouragement of the wireless rather than the faint wisp of smoke on the skyline that persuaded the Captain to continue the struggle
Cantee you distinctly, called Cryptic Am about 8.W
All this time, it must be remembered, How many people realize the full the Dumed was sinking The men had horror of that simple fact. Hitherto hardly Leen taken from the water when shipwrecked crew in an open boat out she went down. With a rush the waves of sight of land has been the first ele closed over her and these wrecked men mentary object lesson in pity tu the were left alone with their enemies on human rise. Thousands of British the naked son. The submarine rendered seamen every year have risked their lives them no bulp of any kind. The com- to save their brothers and sisters from mander looked at the men in the water the slow agonios of that fate. In the and shook his first at them, saying some last years of grace under the wings of thing in German. Then he closed the the new civilization, heralded by a thou hatch and the submarine sabmerged, sand perverse forms of new art and new leasing them to their own devices. The thought, it has become an act.of benezond mate beaded the undamaged boats volence to inflict this punialiment upon for the Irish Coast, and at about thousands of innocent victims. Indeed, a'clock in the evening he hailed a the open boat atrocities, taken altogether, present as garious a problem to the civilised world as deportation in Belgium and France
destroyer which formed through the lusk to the scene of the wreck There, long after dark, they picked up the survivors on the capsized boat, but seven men had dropped off in sheer exhaustion and had
neutrals. been drowned, and five of these were
Can you hold and "Yes, yes. He is running away.
In what direction
He is in the port side: we tre between you and him. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Heds getting absum to torpedo
“I am coming."
We are keeping him astern now." "OK. Endeavour to keep his atten- tion; you will be quite safe when-your signuls are weak. How are you steer ing
"I can't find out how we are steering. It is zigzag.
Tell the Captain to steer straight. The gray course, was wrong, na the sub-
The zig
faride was astern. How many maste have you
For God's sake hurry up, ring Uke hinzug
** How many masts—
Can't read you : concussion." How many, inaste have you!!! Two, two, une funnel. I see you on our port bean,
O.K. Keep quiet, as though we were only coming to your assistance and no- thing else.
Kep him astern. Hurry up ''
We hear ring can you inform result 1 ??
ed.
Can hear you. Several being wound-
Shrapnel, I believe." Keep men below, or those on deck. lie face down.
DIS31|8881). THE COOK,
One day, Constantin asked a distia
ancienne noblesse, to déjeuner at the guished Frenchman, a member of the Palace at Athens His Majesty, anxious for the Royal chrf to do justice to the epicurean tastes of the guest, ordered the man to be sent forkgat
You understand, the King is re- ported to have said, that on this occasion you mast exeel yourself. My guest is a great epicure fas
Yes. Sire, replied the cook. "It shall be as your Majesty, commands."
The day appointed for the luncheon arrived, and during the morning the chef presented himself outside the Royal" apartments, deeply agitated.
I must see the hing," he declared to an ade decamp.
Impossible! His Majesty is en gaged just now on matters of State."
monsieur, that it is im protested the cook. I must
have
perative of the King at once l'
The aide demurred for a while, but ultimately agreed to admit the man to Constantine's presence
Well, what
asked the
King The servant was in despair,
Her Majesty the Queen las gone tu Tatoi and taken the keys of the storeroom, site! There can be nu déjeuner, your Majesty, until I gain access to the cupboards:
The King reflected for an instant, and then called the alte de camp, Pre sently he decided to have the storeroom doors broken open
As a result the luncheon was a com plete success. But when Madanie Tino returned and heard the story, she had the unfortunate cook brought before her
and dismissed him of the
spot
FATE OF SCHOONEL "COTTINHAM," S the Cattinam is a spial one. She was And they are increasing. The tale of 99 owned in Glasgow, rigged as a fore bud Few of us can rekliw the intensity of
aft schounor, bu lt of steel at Goole sad this sean drama in which our mer bound from Rouer to Swansea. On chant seainen night and day are risking Sunday, December 28th (1915), at their lives to keep our sea roads open o'clock in the afternoon, with a south Lines of old print can tell us very. west wind blowing and choppy sea, aho little by way of epitaph, and their hair- was about sixteen miles south-west of braith escapes are, in the nature of the Lundy Island south light and sailing things, hardly noted at all. Only by at about eight and a half knots. With exploring incidentally matters that are out any warning a shell passed directly not included in the published reports over the vessel and the report of a gun des oe begin to realise that there are was heard Looking astern the master sea mances in the world around us saw the periscope and conning tower of surpassing anything that Hakluyt or a submarine dead in the wake of the ship Richard Eden over know The tale of about a mile distant. The Cottenham the unarmed Anglo-Californian, for in- kept on her course. A second shell weat stance, was flluminated for me be no over and the submarine began to over exploration of the record of her wireless haul the ship very rapidly, coming up messages. These in themselves tell a tale on the starboard quarter. A signal was which in the days before the war we now seen flying on the submarine to should have dismissed as beyond the abandon ship, and a third shell struck wildest dreams of melodrama. the Cottinham on the starboard bow, The engines were stopped and all hands were called to the boats, which were promptly lowered. There were six men in the master's that and seven men in that of the chief oficer shelled by a submarine. She sent wire
This was about 1,30 p.m. The boats less calls and was answered by a man-of- Captain wants to know if you will fire of Pruss pulled away clear while the shelling con. tinued. There were ten or twelve shells fired. Darkmuss was coming on and the ship was not seen to sink. The master boat went away before the wind and sea, steering north-east. Signals by red lights were made to the other boat, which re plied to two signals, but did not answer the finrd. The boats lost touch with each other about 6 o'clock The master assumed, however, that the other host was following the same course, and steered for Lundy, Island.
THE ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN *** TRAGEDY, The Anglo Californian was homeward from Montreal to Avonmouth with a cargo of 997 horses. She was chased and
All taking shelter in front of bridge houses. He is firing shell."
"Have you two or four masts in
Two masts and one funnel." What speed!?! "Twelve, and submarine keeping pace He is still very close; within 200 yards to stare him.” -
Firing to scare him Please bead toward the
"We can't you are astern and so is the submarine,
POTSDAM KULTUR,'"
These two little luncheon Stories, trifling in themselves, are illustrations of Queen Sophie's real temperament Her entire outlook is based upon Potsdam. Kultur. She regards Athens as a sort of Wilderness. The King, too, is unsatis fied by the tin trumpets which sonud when he leaves the Palace. The absence
swagger_154
Wis a "grievous lose to him. war beyond the horizon. The firing grew
80 permeated Perhaps they are so hot thus when the submarine signaled
with Kaiserism that they have never read abandon ship the Captain decided to obey. He stopped the engines and two
Rhoides, who wrote: Whatever may be the adventures of war, England is bouts were lowered. One was fired on and both capsized. A wireless message Head for us in round about south. always sure to win one battle-namely, was then received telling the Captain to If submarine is only 200 yarde astern the last Pall Mall Gazette, hold on as long as possible, and he de put ropes astern and wow in order to cided to go on again. He had some foul his propeller. Can you see my difficulty in persuading the firemen to inoke!”
Yes, yes, long way offCan sen your go down below, but he was probably
imoko astern helped by the way in which the nb- marine, bad treated their "places of What bearing! What has happened
Aces of safety,
to you 1
They can tell what bearing now BROKEN BOAT TELLS THE TALE As mon as the ship went on the sub- Lights were seen a few hours later, and marine opened fire on the bridge and the sinking" signals were again made by red fares. A boats. The Captain and eight bands Are you torpedoed?" patrol boat, the Sear, loomed up out of were killed, sever hands were badly Not yet, but shots in plenty hitting
and broken glass all around me. the dark and the crew of the muster's boat wounded, and twenty horses were killed were taken aboard at 10.30 p.m. The I shall not attempt to paint that picture Stick to it, old man." Sear then cruised around, searching the of smoke confusion, changes of com pitchy seas far and wide, but nothing mand, concussions, neighings of horses, was seen of the other host with seven and pounding of engines, but with all missing men. The end of this brief sum that as a background and the single mary of a thousand cases is told best statement that the wireless operator was perhaps in a telegram from St. David's in an exposed position just abaft the and even the telegram suggests a second bridge, and remained at his post through tragedy. It begins:
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"Yes, I am the Cryptic coming full speed, 33 knots,
I have had to leave phones I say, I smell gunpt der bere strong, and am, lying on the floor. My gear is egy ning to fly around with concussion. Smoke WLNW of me. There is pa Iman of war on our starboard side, and the submarine is on our port side. Sub marine has dived"
Report her trail at intervals You, you bet. Say, the place sti" I hope she stops down there. It is
getting hot here, " of gunpowder. I am lying on the floor." Nothing better, sold man; keep your courage up, old man."
Sure thing. Is there anything else coming to us.
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
We are coming we are coming. Have you launched all your boats?
"Yes. Two ships coming, one sheam and one on port quarter. Don't worry; he has gone. Destroyers now alongside.""
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