Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-04
Spends Eleucn Days on
German U-Boat. During
Which Time Eleyen
Ships Are Sunk.
NJ HENRY REUTEI,DAHI.,

NEW YORK. September 81 have
had the privilege OF editing tho first
authentic description of German sub
marine warfare. AS seen from inside.
tho submarine. that has ever been
written.
II is by an American sailor boy. Carl
Frank List, who sailed from Portland
Ore. last spring on the Norwegian
vessel Cambus Kenneth, loaded with
wheat for Queenstown. She was inter
ccptcd in the Irish Channel by the
famous German submarine C-:o.
After the vessel was sunk ana most
Of her crew sent away in whale boat.
Carl List and four others were taken
on board the submarine.
They remained eleven days. not as
prisoners but as passengers. working
their way. while the undcr-sca boat
raked the Irish Sea and sent to the
bottom eleven merchant ships The
submarine came very near being sunk
herself When her ammunition was
exhausted. the submarine returned TO
the German naval base at Helgoland
where Carl List was discharged.
He WAS aided by Ambassador Gerard
to reach Rotterdam and ship for home
He bore note from Amba ssa,lor
Gerard.
Carl List though under twenty. is
mature for his years and of ready Wit
the kind Of boy who floors YOU with
questions and wants TO know the WAY
of everythinE--the kind who writes
letters TO find out all about ships and
naVies, and checks up erroneous re-
ports and corrects them later by his
own observation and experience
STUDIED NAyU:<rIoI
DURING HIS YEAR At SEA
lie Went to sea as Il cabin boy less
than one year ago. flc is now return
ing TO his home as a quartermaster on
a Hawaiian American liner bound from
New York TO San Francisco via the
Panama Canal. This shows how intel
ligently he has studied navigation dur
ing his short year at sea-
With Il memory better than the aver
age. little escaped his eyes during the
eleven days he spent on hoard the
C-39. His aptitude for mechanics and
drawing helped him TO memorize the
details of the submarine. He has writ
ten his experience for the Internal ional
News Service. He was not nut under
pledge OF secrecy.
The narrative accompanying this is
Carl Lists own story. every detail of
it, lie lived with me for over ii week
and there was ample TIME 10 check up
his statements.
His story is the biggest page yet
written OF the naval war. because it is
the only narrative so far written tell
ing exactly how twentieth century
naval warfare is made by submarines
Ii is more than important. ] know a
great deal about naval things. but Carl
List made some features OF submarine
warfare clear to ne and no one else
did.
His narrative shows that the German
naval officers are not outlawed fclons
but lighting square. Ii states plainly
that every vessel sunk by the subma-
rine C-39 was given ample warning
beforehand. and that except in the case
of merchant ships conveyed by armed
ships that was the rule OF the German
navy.
SHOWS GOOD SEA MANNERS
OF SUBMARINE COMMANDERS
Lists narrative shows the good sea
manners OF the submarine commanders
the absence Of the ruthless hate sup
posed to underlie the tactics; the high
efficiency of the German under-sea
boats, their great sea-kecping abili-
ties. the remarkable perfection OF ma
chinery and the intrcpidiiy and The
physical endurance under extraorlin-
AIRY strain OF the personnel
During her cruise from IIclgoland
during the last half OF which Carl List
was impressed seaman, the submarine
U-3a Travelled nearly 5000 miles. Most
OF the time She was under water. She
returned To her base finally because
had ample fuel and food for all her
crew.
List is no, pro-Gcrman. although born
in Oregon of German parents. lie is
pro-American. During more than "A
week that he lived with me he cX-
pressed no sentiment one way or the
other as to the right and wrong or THIS
war. or tho probable outcome OF IT,
He was too intensely interested in what
he had actually seen of the war to talk
Of anything else.
Understanding German perfectly and
having tho free run of the U-boat. he
is able TO tell not only everything
there WAS to be seen. but everything
that he heard with his own cars.
By Carl FRANK LIST.
My name is Carl I.ist--miI1le, Frank.
please seventeen years old; born in
Portland. Orc: grammar school cduca-
,ion. with spell at high school. My
parents were Germans; my father is
dead. Yes. | speak German.
ann not one Of these runaway kids.
like in dime novels. | told my folk :
that was going. wanted to sec Tic
world told en- not to worry while I
was gone. Hut mother wcpt.
N.,,,