The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-09-24

silent destruction Of three big
cruisers which cost $l2, 100000 has
brought home the risks OF modern
naval warfare The unseen enemy
crept upon the Aboukir. then the
Hogue and then the Cressy and one
after another the cruisers keeled
over and sank Three torpedOes
were fired into each ship. The whole
affair was over in 20 minutes,
The survivors, who have been
taken to the Dutch and British
ports, declare there we're three Ger
man submarines in the attacking
force-some say fve-and that the
cruiser Cressy, or the Lowestoft. ac-
counted for two of them The ad-
miralty. however, does not yet con-
firm the statement that any of the
German craft were DESTROYED and it
is possible that none was even seen.
The experts say thai 4 submarine
might easily slip from Emden on
the upper mouth of the channel and
attack any British ship it hap
pened to meet and return home.
Neither the navy nor the nation,
as their feeling is voiced in the
newspapers, is dismayed and the
call on the admiralty is for more
aggressive action, although the al
.ernative is presented of sealing the
Germans up in their harbors with
mines If their strategy of keeping
their big ships at home and making
raids with submarines proves con-
sistently effective.
Saw One Submarine Escape
The correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph at Rotterdam sends this
story Of the sinking of the three
British cruisers:
Capt. Berkhout OF the steamer
Titan, who saved over 100 of the
British sailors, witnessed the fight
between the cruisers and the sub
marines, Some of the rescued sail
ors claim that two out Of three Of
the attacking submarines were sunk
As will be seen, only one submarine
was seen sailing off Capt Bark
bout told me the following story;
THE fight took place about :
o'clock Tuesday morning at which
lime I saw German submarine
tearing away at great speed
Far away on the horizon | saw
three cruisers the Aboukir, Cressy
and Hogue, and, after a while, !
noticed that one of them had gone.
did not pay any particular atten-
ion at the time, but when | next
.urned to look for them | noticed
hat another had disappeared
There was some smoke and | heard
l slight explosion.
"At once | dashed In their dire.
ion and on arriving in the vicinity
| lowered away two boats to rescue
4 large number OF men whom | saw
swimming about in the water AL
ogether | picked up Ill men anc
hree officers, All were naked, TO
hey had thrown off their clothin'
in the water. One of the officer
was Commander w. s Sells o
Portsmouth. His wrist watch ha,
topped at five minutes past : an'
was 10 O'Clock when picked hin
p. All were exhausted
las soon as the commander wa
brought on board he dropped dowi
Exhausted. He was given wine ant
about 10 minutes he came around
rhen he said 1T was long swim,
while | was on my way the re
naming cruiser rolled over an,
ank. was pleased to find tina
'wo Lowestoft cutters had reache,
he spot before me They wer
pulling naked men out o. the water
One boat was absolutely full Of me.
and other men We're struggling a.
around, but they We're nearly ex
Hausted and almost numb from tn
old. Many were clinging to wreck
age, one group clustering around
floating table
Goes Through Accident on Fac
| Ship Unframed
| Commander Sells told me of tn
trying experience of a brave littl
midshipman. 1t appears that tn
midshipman was on board the frs
vessel which was struck and as sh
vas settling down, he jumped ovel
| board and swan clear of the tr,