Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-12-17

miles and & submerged endurance OF
nine hours. These were considered the
latest word In 1915. but the o u new
boats exceeded them In az respects.
without troubling yon with precise fig
ures / may say that they represented
roughly a % per cen advance npon
the older boats and were fitted with
sevcrHi auxiliary engines waich were
wanting in the others. At my sngges
tlon. instead OF carrying eight of the
very large Rakdorf torpedoes. which
are nineteen feet long, weigh half a
toD and are charged with 300 pounds
of wet ~guncotton, we had tubes de-
signed for eighteen of less than half
the size. It was my design to make
myself independent Of my base.
And yet il was ciear that | must have
Il base, so ! made arrangements ut once
with that object. k~tankenberg was the
Iast place | would cave chosen. Why
sbori6 I have a port OF any kindi
Ports would he watched or occupied
Any place would do for me. l finally
chose q small villa standing alone Rear.
~ five miles from any village and thir-
ty miles from any port. 10 this ! or
dered them to convey secretly by night
oil. spare parts. extra torpedoes, stor
age batterles. reserve periscopes and
everything that | could Haed for refit
ting. The little whitewashed villa OF,
a retired coIfectioner- that was the
base from which 1 operated against
England.
The boats lag at Bl~ankenberg. and
thither / went. They were WORKING
frantically at the %detenses, aud they
had only to look seaward to be spur
red to fresh exertions. The British
fleet was assembling The ultimatum
Ind not yet expired, but 1t was evident
that a blow would be struck the Ia
stant that 1t did. -Four of their aero
planes. ctrcling at an Immense height.
were surveying our defenses. From
the top OF the lighthouse | counted thir
ty battleships and cruisers In the ~" ny.
with u number OF the ira wlers with
which In the British service they break
through the mine fields. The approach
es were actually sOwn with 200 mines
half contact and half observation. but
the result showed that tney were in.
sufficient to hold of the enemy, since
three days later beth town and feet
were speedily destroyed.
However, ! am not here to tell you
the incidents OF the war, but to ex-
plain my own part In lG. which had
such a decisive effect upon the result.
Ny hrst action was to send my four
second class boats away instantly to
the point which | had chosen for my
base. There they were to wait. sub
merged. lying with negative buoyanry
upon the sands In twenty feet OF wa
ter and rising only at night. MY
strict orders were that they were to
attempt nothing upon the enemy, how.
ever tempting the opportunity. All
they had to do was to remain intact
and unseen until they received further
orders. Having mnde this clear to
Commander Panza, who had charge OF
this reserve fiotiIla. | shook him by
the hand and babe him farewell.
hy whole attention was now given
to my own iotilla, which I divided into
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tain Miriam had Delta and Epsilon.
he was to operate separately In the
British channel. while my station was
the strait OF Dover. | made the whole
plan OF campaign clear 70 him. Then
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