The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-12-26

see about that
On the round the corner page, at the
back Of the glorious resonant letters,
there was q little column which read
like this:
Several OF the enemy's submarines
are at sea and have inflicted some ap-
probable damage upon our merchant
ships. The danger spots upon Monday
and the greater part OF Tuesday APP
pear to have been the mouth OF the
Thames and the western entrance to
the solent On Monday between the
More and Margnte there were sunk
1ve large steamers, the Adeln, Molda-
via, Cusco, Cormorant and Maid Of
Athens, particulars Of which will be
found below. Near ventn0r on the
same day was sunk the verulam. from
Bombay. On Tuesday the Virginia.
Caesar, King Of the East and Path
finder were destroyed between the
Foreland and Boulogne. The latter
three were actually lying In French
waters, and the most energetic repre-
sensations have been made by the gov
eminent of the republic. On the same
day the Queen of Sheba. Orontes, d.
ana and ATLANTA were destroyed near
tho Needles. Wireless messages have
stopped all ingoing cargo ships from
coming up channel, but unfortunately
there is evidence that ut least two Of
the enemy's submarines are In the
west. Four cattle ships from Dublin
to Liverpool were sunk yesterday even
ing, while three Bristol bound steam
ers. the Hilda, Mercury and Maria
loser. were blown up in the neighbor-
hood of Lundy island. Commerce has
SO far as possible been diverted into
safer channels, but in the meantime,
however vexatious these incidents may
be and however grievous the loss both
to the owners and to Lloyd's, we may
console ourselves by the reflection that
since a submarine cannot keep the sea
for more than ten days without reit-
ting and since the base has been cap
tured. there must come speedy end
to these depredations."
So much for the Courier's account OF
our proceedings. Another small para
graph was, however, more eloquent.
1.-THE price of wheat" 1t said. (which
stood Mt IS shillings week before the
declaration of war, was quoted yes
terday on the Baltic at 81. Maize hass
gone from 81 to 81, barley FROM 10 to
35. sugar foreign granulated) from II
shillings and threepence to 10 shillings
and sixpence."
Good. my lads!' said when I read
It to the crew. 81 can assure you that
those few lines will prove to mean
more than the whole page about the
fall of Blankenberg. Now let ms get
down channel and send those prices
up little higher"
All traffic had stopped for London
not so bad for the little Iota-and we
did not see steamer that was worth
a torpedo between Dungeness ind the
Isle OF Wight. There called Stephan
up by wireless, and by Z o'clock we
were actually lying side by side in a
smooth. rolling sea--Hengistbury head
bearing N. N. w. and about Ave miles
distant. The two crews clustered on
the whalebacks and shouted their Joy
at seeing friendly faces once more.
Stephan had done extraordinarily well.
I had, of course, read In the London
paper OF his four ships on Tuesday.
but he had sunk no fewer than seven
since. for many Of those which should
have come to the Thames had tried to
make Southampton. OF the seven. one
was Of 10000 tons, a grain ship from
America: q second was grain ship
from the Black sea, and two others
were great liners from South Aftfca.
I congratulated Stephan with all my
heart upon his splendid achievement.
Then, as we had been seen by destroy
er which was approaching at great
pace, we both dived, coming up again
or the Needles, where we spent the
night in company. We could not visit
each other since We had no boat, but
we lay so nearly alongside that we
were able. Stephan and /. to talk from
hatch to hatch and 20 make our plans.
He had shot away more than half
his torpedoes. and 20 had !, and yet we
were very averse from returning to
our base 20 long - our oil held out.
l told him OF my experience with the
Boston steamer. and we mutually
agreed to sink the ships by gunfire in
future 20 far as possible. I remember
old Horll saying. ''what use II q
gun aboard submarinei'' We were
about to show. l read the English pa
per to Stephan BY the light Of my cleo
trio torch. and we both agreed that
few ships would now come up the
channel. That sentence about divert.
ing commerce TO safer routes could
only mean that the ships would so
round the north Of ireland and unload
1t Glasgow. Oh. for two more ships
TO stop that entrance! Heavens, wha'
would England have done against .
zoe with thirty O. forty submarines
since ~ oaly nsedsd six instead Of
forr 70 .epnnIeke her destrucfipni ~
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