The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-22
Submarine Sighted Liner Olympic After
Sinking Great VESSEL but Did Not
Fire Again---Berlin Fears Squad
ron Has Since Been Lost.
RUMOR THAT CREW DESTROYED
THE AUDACIOUS SET AT REST
Admiralty Suppressed News That Position of
Home Fleet Off Irish Coast Might
Not Be Revealed.


the north Irish coast the authentic story of her de-
structon has become knownhat she sunk by torpedo
from German submarine and not by mine formerly
posed
Despite all the mystery which British Admiralty sought
throw around this disaster of her and
ships, the real facts be published
The received here from authoritative source
in Berlin and the details fit closely with the report that
Olympic.
The Audacious hit twice, caused
her explode This entirely refues the
that the big batteshp blown up by her
prevent her becoming navigation stated by
after the disaster.
The Audacous $6,oOOoOo was put out of
commission by little boat that the S6oo0oO The
German submarine of high number class probably II
H. The boats of that class about 10 long they
have displacement the surface Of from
cruising radius Of about 1000 miles They when
running the surface by fuel oil engines type
and fuel oil much longer cruising any other
type of motor.
1t strange to many that there British
bateships first class cruisers anywhere the North
Sea. These huge fighting machines kept far away
the of active fighting because of the
the submarine and the mine but they
operations and constantly the alert ready battle
the should leave port The German
kept Wihemshaven Cuxhaven and in the Canal and
the entrances to those harbor closely guarded and thor
oughly mined
German Submarine Squadron Went Out.
There has been much mystery about the base of the British
fleets but last month the Germans through their system
espionage learned that the British baeshp was making
its base Tough Swiftly harbor the northwest coast of
Ireland where the water deep and there fine
all weather When this information obtained the
German authorities small squadron of submarines sent
out to try to catch of the big British baeshps and
the time to show how alert the in having
discovered the British base.
The submarines, conveyed by mother ship" left
Whemshaven and carefully lodging the mines worked their
way then skred the On October 6
they discovered the base at Tough swiftly
Early the morning of October ~ gale blowing
big running. In this the
because the high umbng would be
fcut small perscope when the submarine the
surface sight At the time it made things
difficult for those on the submarine.
possible to picture the sight which the of
the daring commander he gazed through his
scope the British home fleet which BranS great
ness depends cruising in Zine ahead formation, in what Sir
John Jecoe thought perfectly He able
his victim among the latest and best ships the
navy. ~ .
British Home Fleet Discovered
writer's have described the satisfaction and pleas
ure with which Lieutenant Captain Weddingen of the
ogue within range his torpedoe off the Dutch
possible imagine the immensely greater satisfaction with
which the German commander off the Irish coast launched his
torpedoes which sank the Audacious
Never before in the history Of naval warfare has sub
conflict with dreadnough and Sir Percy SCOTS
that the navy of the future will be made sub
instead of drlnough to find foundation
in the latest disaster to the British navy.
The submarine took look and then submerged little
the surface and then only short
distance from the Audacous and within striking distance The