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SUBMARINE FEATS OF THE for the crew of the British sub-

GREAT WAR.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Disillusionment.

There was no question about it, the commander was anying She broke surface right under our bows. We fired a couple of shots that seemed to strike home; then we rammed her, and, to make sure, drapped three depth charges right over the spot where she 'disappear ed. Lieut. Collart edged his way into the group.

Sorry to disillusion you, old shop, he drawled, but it was my boat you tried to scupper. If whisky and soda or a cocktail will make up for the D.S.O, you won't get you are welcome to have one on me, and here's wishing you better luck next time '."

The American officer had report ed to the Officer. Commanding at Plymouth: "Attacked and sank

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Saw shells register direct hits. Felt shock as we passed over her in- tending to ram. Dropped depth charges in position in which she dis appeared."

land Harbour.

marine. A nest of enemy destroy- cra cirpled her position and hunted her all day, The water was not deep enough for safety. Soveral times E. narrowly escaped ram-" ming. Countless times, her hull was brushed by the slowly-searching tendrils of sweeps. When darkness amo the batteries were dangerous.

ENGLAND'S LOST BEAUTIES.

WARNING BY THREE FAMOUS MEN.

definite acquisition of the property," at least, another £1,300 would be required to meet the annual cost of administering it.

Sir Edwin Lutyens was elected president of the Incorporated Ass0- eintion of Architects and Surveyors, He was informed of his election by BIT OF COTSWOLDS FOR wireless to the P. & O, liner Man- tua, which is in the Mediterranean," and in which Sir Edwin was travel-

NATION.

low. All that nighs E.9 and the surface craft played hide and seek

Mr. Baldwin was one of thresing on his-anuual visit to India to in deadly earnestness. Time after

supervale his work in New Delhi. famous men from whom pleas were heard on January 10, for the pre- time the submarine rose to the sur- face to get her charge under way: servation of the beauties of the and was sent into a crash dive by English countryside. The following the onrushing, rams of the destroy-ara points from their speeches:-

era."

On the next patrol Horton bagged the German destroyer S.116, and still another destroyer in Jammary,

Mr. BaldwinWe have to protect the countryside until such timo as the education of our people has taught all to love the country in their hearts and souls,

Sir Edwin Lutyen's Juli,

The following letter from Sir

Edwin, written just before he left London, was read:

"The inclusion of architects and surveyors in one society has always seemed to me wholesome and cor- rect. That is why I like our incor-

tion gives a wider view and in fluonce to the possibilities of crea

dent of the Lacorporated Asso- ciation of Architects and Sur- veyors): Day by day the stature of England's beauty" grows tive art. smaller.

1916, while later be seriously dam-Sir Edwin Lutyens (the new Presi.porated association. The combina aged the enemy light cruiser Prinz Adalbert, considered a piece of brilliant marksmanship. Capt. Max Horton served with submarines from the very outbreak of hos. tilities, made some of the most ad- venturous trips. ever undertaken in underwater craft, and never turned

down an opportunity to attack the

enemy.

Mr. E. Guy Dawber (formerly Pre-surveyor that Sir Christopher Wren "It was under the designation of

sident of the Royal Institute of British Architecte): Our paint ers owe their fame to paintings of the English countryside; treasure the paintings and de- stroy the originala.

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entered the profession in which architect and surveyor are equal contributors to success.

"Day by day the stature of Eng- The occasion of Mr. Baldwin's land's beauty grows smaller. It is "Mistaken for "U."

speech was the reception of the not by any Parliamentary authority Mr. Carr describes 18 "the most title deeds of Haresfield Beacon, that taste and discretion can be Bridge Played at Bottom of Hellgo-tragic incident of the service" the an historic and beautiful spur, of fosierod, that insight into essential sinking of the British submarino 6 the Cotswold Hills, near Glouces needs can be given, that imagina. by a British Q-boat. The story of

ter, which was on Saturday dediction and high accomplishment can it is told by an ex-naval officerated to the use of the public for all be assured. But it is to these ends serving in the Qbout, which was time. Soms 260 acres of land in that the Incorporated. Association vestigating the Lucin affair at Ply commanded by an officer with a dis- this section of the Cotswolds have of Architects and Surveyors is de

dicated, and those ends which, with your help, it would be my humble duty as president to promote.-'

In mentioning"Parliamentary

Captain Max K. Horton., presi- dent of the Court of Inquiry, iti

month last month, is prominent in the story, Mention is made of how he entered Heligoland Harbour in

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This ex-officer relates how, leav ing the Firth of Forth, the Q-boat proceeded south bound for the Eng

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The ceremony of receiving the title deeds took place on the crest

broke out. What would have hap lish Channel. They sighted two of a hill-adjoining the Beacon. To authority," it was explained, Sir pened to the British Fleet lying at submarines-which, however, provmake his speech Mr. Baldwin, took Edwin was referring to the Archi-

anchor at Scapa Flow, if the enemy had had officers on August 8 with the initiative of Horton and others? "Horton was disappointed. The periscope's mirror showed nothing worth wasting a torpedo on. Hor- tou ordered the boat to the bottom.. All hands were dismissed from sla- tions for a rest. The three officers played bridge.

ed to be British. They sighted a

off his overcoat, stuck his umbrella tects (Registration) Bill, which is shortly to be considered in Stand- third submarine, and the

men in the ground, and used it as a peg crouched concealed near the campu- for his bowler hat while be mounting Commities "A" of the House finged guns."As the submarine

of Commons, and which seeks to ed the giant trunk of an uprooted drew close I could distinctly hear

establish the title of . # Registered beech tree. a whistle pass along the line of

Architect." anxiously-waiting men: “, U 08.! 'U

Ud. It's a Fritz!" "I saw the boat and her mark. ings plainly. I cannot tell what it was that hung over the conning tower and completed the loop of the J, making it look like a U, but somewheres near here that The I was as convinced as any of the

"I heard the rest of the story months afterwards. We were on patrol inside the Bight. There was little to do save talk.

It was

At the meeting Major Robert Inigo Tasker, chairman of the London County Council and a past

From this platform Mr. Baldwin explained his great love for what. he called "the unequalled, un- exampled, and unparalleled beauty president of the Association, was of the English country-side,”?

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"Why in it," he asked, people come forward today to Trado (nickname for the Submarine; men that it was a German U-boat. make thess gifts and why should Service) inflicted its first defent, We thought she was looking us over it be necessary to preserve places

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the enemy. We was dozing rightOur captain was equally convinced very deep and profound instinel of in Fritz's front dooryard with the that it was an enemy vessel. He the English peopic. We have be gauges at 60 feet. Commander gave the order to break the White come largely an urban folk, but Horton, Mr. Chapman, and the navi- Ensign and open fire." gating officer were playing bridge: Most of the hands were lying down reading. We could hear enemy ships scuttling about overhead, when, suddenlike, I hears some thing clang against

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elected chairman of the council of the association. The Duke of Marlborough was elected a vice- president, and Sir Prank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, an honorary esember,

Painters' Duty..

Mr. E. Guy Danter, formerly

president of the Royal Institute of British architects, spoke at the. there lies deep down in the hearts Brighton Arts Club. dinner. Paint "There was not enough breeze to even of those who have tailed iners, he declared, ought to do some blow the fing out of its folds. Just our cities for two and three gontra thing to protect the English coun- before the first gun was fired Itions an incradicable love for coun-

tryside. noticed that the submarine was also try, things and country beauty. To

"Our greatest painters," he con- fying a dag, but it hung straight them, as much as and perhaps even tinued, owe their fame in a large up and down from the masthead.

more than to ourselves, the country mensure to their paintings of the

for'ard. It was plain to know what If it had blown clean out I doubt represents eternal values and tradi-English countryside. We treasure

it was. They was sweeping, and their sweeps was hooked across our

bows.

Why He Revoked. "I cups me head in the hand, wondering when the explosions would begin, when hears the cap tain say, "Your play, Chapman."

very much if it would have made The commander any difference, had already lost one. U-boat bo- cause he held his fire when she showed the White Ensign.

tions from which we must never allow ourselves to be separated!

"Our countryside owes its beauty to the fact that in the old days people were only abls to build their "We were practically at point houses, farms nad cottages of blank range. On the conning tower materials which belonged to the

their paintings in our museums,

and yet ruthlessly destroy the originals of them without a word of protest from societies of artists"

Mr. Dawber attributed much of the damage being done to rural England to the motor-car, which

of the submarine stood an officer district and which harmonized with had brought the manners, customs;

Mr. Chapman, I noticed, was a bit and a man The man was about the landscape, until it made that and vulgarities and buildings of the i

interested in this here row up

to lift a rifle to his shoulder to fire perfect complete and unified whole town into the country. Our great

a recognition signal. The very first which we love so inuch in all parts arterial roads," he went on," have for'ard, too. The wire slipped and shell we fired broke his arms and of the country. If a man wanted been planned without any vision. scraped. It was so plain you could killed the officer. The second to build in the Cotswolds he used They do not follow any contour of see it all. Her skin might've been pierced the submarine about the Cotswold stone. You cna never the land. They are driven straight glass. The chains worked along the waterline just under the conning see those abominations of red tile through, leaving great scars which bow, scratched over the jumping tower.. The first shell, from wires, hitched up against the peri- our big 4in, gun was also a direct tion of age that makes buildings over heal".

or Welsh slate. It is not a quet neither time nor vegetation will scope standard, and, after what hit. Then we saw the after hatch harmonious with the landscape. It seemed like a couple of weeks, drag-open and an officer scramble on is a question of using the materials ged clear. Just as it did Mr. Chap-desk frantically waving what ap that look at home and not alien

Sorry, Horton, old chap, "but you are down one trick, doubled.”

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peared to be a white tablecloth.

"We erased fire, but immediate-

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"It is because it cultivates that course and headed into fog bank. The captain laughs. A nasty we opened fire un af shared eye for beauty, that sense of rent laugh, it seems to me. "Don't you her until she was lost to sight in and

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rejoice that a believe it, Chapman," he says. the mist. Just as she disappeared place like this has been preserved "You revoked just when the wire into the fog we saw her signalling and will be preserved for ever. The Beano, Feb. 8-To-day's plebis-

Help Help! Help! on her are Looked on: You forfeit two tricks." lamp. When they came along-beauty, of this high place is that cits on the federal bill threatening Then he turns to the navigating side they noticed the marking there can have been little change constitutional ban on Swiss officer, who was keeping score, tella H.M. Submarine on the hands

of the men's hat. We were absince the legions piled their arms citizens accepting orders and simi him what to put down, and, says, solutely stunned. We had sunk a almost as this spot alter their lar decorations from foreign gov. Bridge, gentlemen, is a game British submarine by mistaking the long day's march to relieve those eramente, resulted in an over. you've simply got to keep your mind for a U. On their part, the who kept watch and ward over the whelming majority in favour of the

Bubmarino crew had been equally on if you ever hope to play it certain that they had run into an Welalt horder. It is the frontier bil, especially in the German woll

enemy, Q-boat or raider ranking for one which may people further up the speaking cantons, which "voted Before October, in 1014, Com the trade routes. We were Horton had made three adventurons able to save the lives of about 15 valley in Shropshire watched and practically solidly for the bill, out of the crew of 34.2 helped to guard for centuries and while the French speaking popula- patrols. The second took him alan "A court of inquiry was order centurica

tion voted against any change. into the Heligoland Bight, later ined and sab next day, We were exonerated from all blame. In fast.

The ceremony of handing over the This, is explained by the fact that August, with no better hunting our gun crews were congratulated title deeda

Baldwin wa

the very liberal awards of the Clack, but carlum. September he on their wonderful gunner made by Lord Duokinton, of Paintern Switzerland gave rise to the

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