Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-10-30
IS TIRELESS GAME
Hunting of Submarines Like
Playing Hide Seek.
Most Of the Romance and Action Of
Sea Warfare is Now With
the Seaplanes and the
Destroyers.
BY FREDERICK PALMER.


Strangest looking of all
The ships with the grand fleet is the
Atlantic liner which has been trans
formed into a mothership for the sea.
planes. There are platforms in place
of the promenades where passengers
used 10 lounge. bombs in place of
deck quoits. and the dining salons
have been fitted up as workshops
Everything that seaplane needs in
the way of repairs can be supplied.
A crane that once had taken pas
sengers trunks out of the hold lifted
d seaplane off a platform and deposit
ed IL on the water, where ii bounced on
the waves before the motor was start
I'd and 1t skinned across the surface
for hundred yards or more, rose, cir
cled around the fleet two or three
times and then disappeared out at sea.
Most of the romance and the action
OF sea warfare while the British grand
fleet waits for the German fleet to
come out are with the seapanes and
the destroyers. The dreadnaughts re-
main In harbor. except for occasional
cruises into the North sea; but the
planes and the destroyers are always
on the move They work together in
hunting Fritz" as British officers
and men universally refer to submar-
ines
A submarine is visible 70 an aviator
when it is cruising below the surface.
II payar frovate taoyar +l,o,, .t.fs4. 49,.
forty feet and leaves a characteristic
ripple and air bubbles and strcaks of
Oil When a plane has located a sub
marine it signals the hunters where
TO go. But before they arrive a sQuau
may have hidden the track A sub
marine may be known to be in a Ger.
tain region and be lost and seen and
then lost and seen again. Submarine
hunting is tireless game of hideand
seek Naval ingenuity has invented
no end Of methods of location ana OF
destruction Experiment has proved
some to be efectual, and some useless
Strictest kept OF naval secrets these.
Very thin is the skin OF a submarine
and very fragile and complicated its
machinery. 1t does not take much of
shock to put IL out of order or a
large cargo OF explosives to dent that
skin beyond repair
The difficulty is to know when Won
get them. an officer explained, FOR
it is in the nature OF the submarine to
sink. whether vitality injured or not
II may have gone TO the bottom 10
stay in fifty fathoms OF water. or II
may have submerged under choppv
sea and made safe It's escape. We
have been hunting them for a wear
now. and no doubt We are getting the
better OF them We have not only
learned how to keep them on froa, our
great ships, but how to destroy them
II oil and bubbles come up for
long time In one place or ii they come
up with rush, thag is considered
fairly good evidence OF success There
is no escape for the crew. They can
not make the submarine rise or get
cat of 60. Il becomes a steel casket In
watery grave, No nautical mind is
required to realize that by casting
sS0i;t en- the bottom with a GRAINED
y90 wh. ,'sTa i. al object with the
bulH and SIZE " d, sON-aarine is there;
auG tile death of submarines Is es.
LhIsaed u THIS way
.4 admiralty viii not accept a7y