The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-05
Daring British Sub
marines Create Reign
of Terror At Sea
TRANSPORTS
TORPEDOED
News of Havoc Sup
pressed BY Sultan's
Government
BY HENRY WOOD.

BY HENRY WOOD.
(Efu6 Correspondent United Press.
l BRUSA, Asiatic Turkey. July "a
tBy courier to Dedeagatch, Bulgaria
and thence by cablel--Daring Eng
lish submarine commanders. by bur
rowing beneath the thickly minec
waters OF the Dardanelles and elud
ling the Turkish fleet. have created
la reign of terror from The western
entrance TO the Sea OF Marmora &c
1.-THE very gates OF Constantinople.
Exactly how many Turkish ships
have been sent 10 the bottom by
British submersibies probably is
known only 10 the Turkish ministry
of marine. The undersea craft have
been particularly successful In strik'
| ing at Turkish transports. En- route
here from Constantinople. | learned
that aboard one OF those sunk re
Gently were 500 wounded Turks who
| had Just been discharged from Con
stantinople hospitals and were re-
turning TO the Gallipoli front. Only
$50 were saved The news was sup
pressed by the Turkish government,
but the disaster occurred In full
view of another transport laden with
wounded soldiers. who made the
facts known.
Brusa is the Asia Minor city 10
which 1t was proposed TO move the
Turkish capital in case Constantine
pie was threatened. came here
first on the Friday boat Of the three
times q week service from Constan-
tinople. across the Sea of Marmora.
| A few days previously the boat
from Brusa to Constantinople had
actually been stopped and boarded
by officers from British submarine
within a few miles OF Isiam's cap
ital.
The British officers were looking
for Turkish soldiers. They found
none. but took of what food sup
plies there were aboard, paying for
them In English gold and saluting
courteously as they left the ship.
Because Of the fear inspired by
fthis visit our boat left the Bosphorus
Atth/the lifeboats swung out and
with hundreds OF life preservers
hanging over the rail ready for in
slant use. Instead of heading d.
iectly across the sea OF Marmora.
the usual course, We crept along the
coast for the entire distance. never
getting more than zoo or 500 yards
from shore.
In the following Monday. no more
submarines having been sighted. the
captain took courage and We head
ed directly across the little sea or
the return to Constantinople. Peas
ants and provincial ofYicials ABOARD
the boat did not share the captains
loptimism. and we had scarcely LEFT
| tina last protecting point Of land
when q shot rang out from the
bridge. The signal bells changed
the boat turned tail and fed fol
shore and there was q wild scurry
for lifebelts.
The excitement lasted only a mo
ment. There were countermandine
orders from the bridge and We re
: sumed our cours.. Two miles of
to the left a porpoise had leapet
from the water. The imagination o.
an ofiicer who thought he saw sub
marine periscope did the rest.
found the same feeling OF uneasinesi
on my second trip here.
Farther south In the sea Of Mar
mora, where transports are steam
ing to and from Gallipoli peninsula
the greatest precautions are takeI
against the English submarines
Armed soldiers line the rails will
orders to shoot at everything ap
pearing on the surface. This Is thu
season for the PROPOSES to show
their greatest activity and the por
poise mortality. consequently, Il
} without precedent in the history o.
the seas.
To safeguard them against sub
marine attack, the hospital trans
y pOEu ufe eAi poiutcu WhiScs VIII
? stripes of red running the full
! length. The Red Crescent 10 thu
ofncial symbol of the Turkish Re-
Crescent society. which correspond
to the Red Cross. But the Turk
: have more faith In the Red Cros
than In the Red Crescent and d,
the Red Cross flag as soon as the,
. are out Of sight of Constantinopls
, Returning to the capital. the hoi
4 pital ships hoist the Red Crescen
!. ~ they approach the Bosphorus.
II The police are confident that tn
I British subs have base somewher
, In the sea of Marmora and tina
} some one Of the few hundred Ems
lishmen remaining in Constant
nople II supplying this base wit
| petrol. Hardly day passes tina
come Ensiishman IL not seized an
bauled on to undergo third dc