Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-12-25

latest word w 1918. but the four new
boats exceeded them In all respects.
without troubling you with precise ng-
urcs / may snv that they represented
q - yer cent advance upon
the Older boats and we're fitted with
several auxiliary engines which were
wanting In the others. At my sugges-
tion. instead 1T carrying eight OF the
very large RakdOrf torpedoes, which
are nineteen feet long, weigh hair a
ton and arc charged with 200 pounds
of wet p1ucuttOn. we had tubes de-
signed Tor rirhlrcn OF less than pair
the size. II was my design to make
myself independent OF my base.
And vet IL was clear that | must have
n base. so I made arrangements at once
with that object Blankenberg was tne
hast plnce would have chosen. why
should have n port OF any klnuf
Ports would he watched or occupied.
Any place would do for me. finally
chose n small VIVA standing alone near
~ five miles from any village and tnir-
Is miles from any port 10 this or
dcrpd them Ia convey secretly by night
oil spare parts. extra tOrpedoes, stor'
ace batteries. reserve periscopes and
everything that could need for rent
ting. The little whitewashed villa OF
n retired couiectioner-tha was the
base FROM which / operated against
England
rhc boats lay Mt BIankenberg. and
tntnrr went they were working
rranticnllN nc the dptenses, and they
had only to look seaward to be spur
red To- FRESH exprtions. The British
nept was assembling The ultmatum
had not yet expired, out 1t was evident
that n blow would he struck the In
stant that it did Four Of their aero
planes. circling at an immense height,
were surveying our defenses. From
+, the top uf the lighthouse counted thlr-
ty battcships and cruisers in the otfing,
with a number of the trawlers with
which in the British. service they break
through the mine fields The approach
ss were actually sOwn with 2OO mines,
MALT contact and half observation, but
the result showed that they were in
sufficient to hold Off the enemy, since
NAlltt hNNH hiNNi bOhu eo'H AN~N
were speedily destroyed.
However. / am not here to tell you
the incidents of the war, but to ex-
plain my own part in it. which had
such decisive effect upon the result
Ny Grst 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 buoyancy
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 made this clear to
Commander Panza. who had charge or
this reserve hotila, shook him by
the hand and bade him farewell.
MY whole attention was now given
TO my own fotilla, which divided into
two divisions, keeping iota and Kappa
under my own. command, while Cap
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 TO him. Then
( saw that each ship was provided
with all IL could carry. Each had for
" tons Of heavy oil for surface pro
pulsion and charging the dynamo
which supplied the electric engines un
der water Each had also eighteen tor
pcdoes. as explained. and 300 rounds
for the colIapsible quick firing twelve
unuuuer which we carried on deck ana
which. Of course, disappeared into IL
water tight tank when we were sub
merged We carried spare periscOpes
and Il wireless mast. which could be ele
waited above the coming tower when
/ necessary There We're provisions tOi
sixteen days for the ten men who man
ned each craft such was the equip
urut Of the four boats which were
destined TO bring To naught all the IA
sic. aud armies OF Britain. NJ sun
down that day-it was April 10 We
sci lurth upon our historic royaG"
aiuium had got away In the after
uu,.u. since ne had - much tnriH| Il
gu a. reach bis station. stephan o.
rhe Kappa started with mr. hni O
course we realized that we must worn
Independently aud that from mat n'o
mrut when we shut the sliding hat'he'
Of nu coming towers ON the stlii wa
ters nf Rlankenberg barber II was M
likely that we should ever see eacl
other again though consorts IN 'h
same waters waved to Stephan tr"I
the side OF my coming tower and ne 1
me. Then called through the tube {
my engineer Jour water tanks were q
ready filled and all Kingstons ana vent
closed to pnt her full speed ahead
Just as we came abreast or the en-
; Of the pier and saw the whitecappe
waves rolling In upon us put I'd
/. horizontal rudder hard down, aud 81
I slid under water. Through my gt's
portfolios saw its light green chang
.. q, Ia.iy hlua mhila the manOnptp