New Britain herald., 1915-12-29
TOLD OPERATIONS0 0F
 ALLIED SUBMARINES
Papers Found By Turks on Cap
 tured French UnderSeab0at

(Correspondence of The Associated Press)
 Constantinople, Nov. 21.-The de- struction, a few days ago, of a Brit 1 ish submarine of the "cruiser' class, l was due largely to the fact that on a captured French submarine, the Tur- quoise, were found certain secret in- structions concerning the operations l of the Allied submarine fleet in the l Sea of Marmora. These docum ents, besides naming the Marmora coast points where supplies could be ob- | tained by the Allied submarines, also l threw light on the movements of 1 these vessels. Tn pursuance of the information thus obtained, the Ger 1 man submarine U. B. IA, waylaid the British undersea "cruiser", and sent a torpedo into her side. Twenty-four men were drowned, while the crafts three officers and another five of the | crew, most of them wounded, were l made prisoners.
 That the Allied subma rines in the Marmora were being supplied with necessities in the lake itself had been the contention of the Ottoman author ities for some time. It had been inn possible, however, to obtain accurate information. Since it was felt that an end had to be put to this state of af- fairs, the Turkish government de- clared the entire Marmora coast a "closed zone.' into which no ship of any sort could venture without a spe- cial permit and a representative of the Ottoman marine department aboard. Nevertheless, a large number of Greeks in some cases also Turks ventured into the forbidden waters. Heavy sentences of penal servitude, in some instances terms of eight years 1 were imposed upon them Notwith- standing this the traffic continued un- til quite recently.
 Coal As Fuel.
 The papers found on the Turquoise | show also that the newer and larger types of British submarines use coal as fuel. In the list of "bases' in the 1 Marmora sea are several places where 1 coal could be obtained. Turkish pa trol boats had reported that they had 1 seen submarines from whose tunnels | coal smoke issued. At the time this was not believed. It has been learned l since then that the principle of loco- motion, above and below the surface, remain the same, with the difference that the submarine so obtaining it's
 
 enemy replenish it's electric storage batteries at night, when nothing but sparks from the funnel could reveal it's presence.
 In connection with the efforts of the Turkish authorities to restrict mili- tary activity on the Sea of Marnlora, a rather amusing incident occurred last July The officers of a certain Ger man submarine were in the habit of dining at one of Pera's best hotels. So did the officers of an English subma- rine on at least one occasion. At that time the Turkish government, as it does even today, permitted the sub- jects of hostile governments to move freely about Constantinople. Dining one day at this hotel, the commander of German submarine was given by the waiter a letter which bore his full name and address. The waiter said that on the previous evening the let ter had been left by a party of five, one of whom seemed to be an Ameri- can.
 Greetings From Officers.
 The letter contained greetings from the officers of the British submarine to the officers of the German subma- rine. It was couched in friendly terms, showing further that the sponsors of the letter were of sportive turn of mind. They would meet some day, joked the writer of the message, and the nthey would see who would get the best of it
 Whether or not the waiter was right in his assertion that an Ameri- can had been in the party, is hard to say. At any rate, the Turkish govern ment began to keep close watch on the United States stationship Scorpion. While the vessel still lay at it's moor ings off Kabatash Turkish motorboats patrolled the adjacent waters con- stantly, while at the jetty, which the crew and visitors of the Scorpion had to use, police officials inquired closely into the purpose of every trip to or from the vessel. A little later the 1 Turkish government, on the lea that the moorings of the Scorpion were no longer safe, insisted that the vessel take a new station in the Golden Horn ! beyond the new and old bridges at a 1 point where British submarines could not endanger her. The protests of 1 Ambassador Morgenthau against this complimentary procedure on the part of the Turkish government were useless. The commander of the Scor- l pion, Captain Morton, said that the { suspicious on which the Turkish gov- ernment had acted were devoid of all 1 Justification