Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-07
ENDS STIRRING TALE
OF ELEVEN DAYS ON
GERMAN SUBMARINE
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myself on board the German suhme-
rine. and stared wild-eyed about its
inside, which looked TO me like a sub
way car fun OF slum- machinery.
swimming in electric light and tended
to by. goops in leather suits found
myself getting used to tho life.
One day heard the captain ask the
torpedo room through the tube If all
The answer came: ia allies ferlr"
Call ready.
Lost" Cfre). AS the torpedo left
the tube can hear the swish of the
air blast and feel the jerk OF the dts
charge. All silent, on tiptoe, we are
waiting to hear the echo of the cXpIo-
sion from the torpedo striking But
there was no sound. In the periscope
they saw the tracks OF the torpedo
abaft the neeting steamer. Missed
and ii was our last torpedo
But when the huge Anglo Cali
fornian, fun Of war material. cavalry
horses and Russian rcservisis. hove III
sight, we went for her without a single
torpedo in our tubes. and with but II
handful OF shells for the deck gun.
That meant surface work only. She
needed no warning shots
1t was about : \. NJ. sunday, July A.
We fred into her rudder, hoping 10 dis
able her. but she kept on steering In
circles. The u-Sa was shaking ham,
. nler. hammer, went the engines, doing
almost trial-trir speed. Rushing with
increasing revolutions. the spray falls
from al sides on the boat. the pointers
at the gun are drenched, and their OIL
skins look Vanished in the sunlight.
The gun is eating up our last shells,
WILLY COMMANDER W0nNs
IN SPIHAI.S no ESCAPE
Eut II is q willy commander on the
Anglo Californian bridge working in
spirals TO escape. So our captain or
GcrS the gun 10 aim ri the bridge and
sweep the deck underneath. And the
lookouts. through their glasses. note
that the steamers s!ippe, had fallen,
and that some one was steering the
ship Hat on his stomach. grabbing the
spnkes o! the wheel.
Meanwhile, boats are being lowered.
but il is iHystery;. how they are KEEP,
from being sramped and the people
spilled. as the Anglo Californian never
slowed once. but kept running full
speed in circles.
We are ordered 10 count the few re-
manning shells and To aim accurately.
We riddle The bridge and tunnels with
furious fire. but the last round of
ammunition is gone There is no sur
render, the AnElo-Californian is Sun
zigzaggins.
AS last resort. the Maxim is
brought on deck and ciamped on TOP
the coming tower ], begins 10 spit
its fre of rife bullets by the hel,ful.
Less than a couple OF hundred yards
away we pick OF The Anglo-Cali-
. fornian's crew whenever a head showed
itself around the boats davi,s Our
fire is returned, rifle shots are dropping
on deck and spattering our coming
tower. The scratches on the ar,nor
show where they hit
But il was OF no avail She had cried
for help over the wireless. We had
ieen hard at IL for over two hours. ard
assistance is coming 10 our prey \
gray patrol yacht turned up behind
her bow. followed hy p swarm OF de-
stroyers. al! summoned by the Anglo
Californian's wireless.
Like lightning. We scattered rellnell
for the coming tower hatch. and we
were unshipping ,he Maxim ana hand
ing rifles below jus, as q shell whizzed
over our heads ana struck the waite:
/ within fifteen feet
We literally 'bea, il dropped below
The surface !lHS a. rock we could nea!
the sound OF the piopellers Of the pur-
suers over our heads and coula i'm
agine their cursins, tor we stayed un-
der the water for an hour
HARMLESS As KITTEN;
CAN'T DEFEND SELVI,,
Oh, for the torpedo we missed Will
yesterday. We have 20, TO % home
we arc rs harmless az a kitien--can'
even defend ourselves Tna, California
man was some captain" lie oueh
TO have % iron cross said the crew
oo1Sgs learned afterwnrd tn He!.o!aiu
that he and nine men had iallau am
several had been woundcdJ
Our tour OF duty Was evenly or
days. the maximum OF endurance 70
submarines of our class. And Us
lad left Hclgolaud TIC ?o;A uf Jun
+ and should, according = sc.iu Iu!e. sta
out on her station on The Atlantic Dor
der in he irish Sea, until July D. a,
lowing six days Tor the return 10 Hol
& goland.
But we had no altern3tivc--cur an,
q munition was exhausted. So nome W
% raced a day sooner
Same alertncss, same watch -keepir