Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

| the destroyers are always on the move.
They work together in hunting Fritz,
as British officers and men universally
refer to submarines.
| A submarine is visible to an aviator
when it is cruising below the surface.
1t never travels deeper than thirty or
forty feet and leaves a characteristic
ripple and air-bubbles and streaks of
| marine it signals the hunters where to
| go. Dut before they arrive a squall
| may have hidden the track. A sub
marine may be known to be in GER
tain region and be lost and seen and
lost and seen again. Submarine hunt
ing is a tireless game of hide and seek.
Naval ingenuity has invented no end Of
methods of location and of destruc-
| ton. Experiment has proved some to
be effectual and some useless. Strict
! est kept of naval secrets these
F., Very thin the skin of a submarine
and very fragile and complicated its
machinery. 1t does not take much Of
shock to put it out of order or a
large cargo Of explosives to dent that
skin beyond repair
The difficulty is to know when you
get them" an officer explained: for it is
| in the nature of the submarine to
sink. whether citally injured or not
1t may have gone to the bottom to
stay in fifty fathoms of water, or it
! may have submerged under a choppy
sea and made its escape. We have been
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doubt we are getting the better of
them. We have not only learned how
| to Keep them off from our great ships,
but how to destroy them"
Guided by the Bubbles.
If oil and bubbles come up for a
long time in one place.. or If they come
| up with rush, that is considered
fairly good evidence of success. There
| is no escape, for the crew. They can
. not make the submarine rise or get
out Of it. It becomes a steel casket in
watery grave. No nautical mind is
required to realize that by cast
ing about on the bottom with a grapnel
you will learn II an object with the
bulk and size Of submarine is there;
and the death" Of submarines is es-
tablished in this way.
THE admiralty will not accept any
guesswork about it, said an officer.
We may have put an explosive right
| into one or rammed 1t in a way that
must have broken its back; but that is
not proof enough. The record goes
down on the chart as supposed de-
stroyed.'"
| With Admiral Crawford the CORE
spondent of the Associated Press went
to see the submarine defenses of har-
Dor. Cruisers and destroyers and aux
the narrow openings through which
they passed We're closed instantly they
were by. There was more than one OBJ
struction II submarine got past the
| first or the second it was in a pocket
Several have been caught in this way.
Take care! There is a tide herer'
the coxswain of the admirars barge
was warned. We don't want to get
caught in a trap meant for Fritz"
At one naval base the correspondent
saw a number of destroyers lying
moored in quay as close together as
in from a tour at sea.
Here today and gone tomorrow.
said an officer What time they had
last winter! And they are in for an
other winter of 1t. You know how cold
the North sea is-no, you cannot un-
! less you have been out in a torpedo
boat dancing the tango in the teeth of
that bitter wind, with the spray whip
ping up to the top Of the smokestacks
In the dead of night they would come
found their way is past me. It's a
| trick of those young fellows who COM
mand.-
Excels in Speed.
| If a destroyer gets on the track OF a
submarine it has thirty knots against
the submarines six or eight There is
| no difficulty in keeping up; her wire
less brings a swarm of assistance. The
| fast turbing destroyers seemed to slip
over the water as If their bottoms were
oiled. Only few of the crew are ex-
posed when showers of freezing spray
| sweep the decks, and all are clad in
thick, short coats Of llama wool, which
! keep their bodies warm and leave the
legs free for movement in keeping