Mountain advocate., 1915-01-01
continued from last week.

pASoBp- Continued from last week.
the hatch Of my tower and was look.
ing ct the boats OF the Virginia with
vornul beside me, when there was
swisb und terrific splash In the wa.
ter beside us which covered us both
with spray, We looked up, and you
cen Imagine our feelings when we saw
an aeroplane lowering few hundred
feet above W. Ike hawk. with its
silencef u was perfectly noiseIess, and
had It's bomb not fallen into the sea
we should never have known what had
destroyed ~. She was circling round
In the hope Of dropping a second one,
but we showed on all speed ahead, cram.
med down tho rudders and vanished
Into the side Of roller. | kept the
DETECTION Indicator falling until I had
put fifty good feet Of water between
the aeroplane aud ourselves, for knew
well how deep they can see under the
surface. However, we soon threw her
of our track and when we came to
the surface near Margate there was
no sign Of her.
There was not ship in the otfing
save a few smaii coasters and little
thousand ton steamers, which were be-
meath my notice For several hours |
lay submerged with "a blank periscOpe.
Then had an inspiration. Orders had
been marCouiod 10 every food ship to
lie in French waters and dash across
after dark. was MS sure of 1t Ne if
they had been recorded in our own
receiver. Wei, IL they were there
that was where ! should he also. ]
blew ont The tanks and rose, for there
was no sign uf any warship near.
They had some good system of sig
mailing from che shore, however. for |
had not got jo tho North Foreland be-
fore three dcsfruyers came foaming
after me ail convprging from different
directions Incy had about us good a
chance of catching me as three span
iels would uf ovcrtakng porpoise. Out
Of pure hravndo know II was very
wrong waited until they were ac
tually within pnshot Then | sank.
IL is, rs ! have said, shallow
sandy coast. ana submarine navigation
is very dilhcult Thc worst mishap thai
can befall boat is to bury its nose
in the side If sand drift and be held
there. Such IN accident might have
been the end Of our boat, though witt
our FIucss yliuderS and electric lamp:
we should have found no difficulty II
getting out Y the air lock and in walk
Ing ashore across the bed of the ocean
As II was. however. was able, thanks
to our excellent charts, to keep tn,
channel and So 10 gain the open strait
There we rose about midday, but, OBJ
Serving a hydroplane at no great dis
lance, we sank again for half an hour
When we came M for the second TIM
all was peaceful around us, and th'
English coast was lining the who'll
western horizon. We kept outside tn
Goodwin and straight down channe
until. we saw line of black dots II
front of as. which | knew to be tn
Doyer-Calais torpedo boat Gordon
when two miles distant we dived ant
came NJ again seven miles to tn
southwest without one of them dream
ing that wc bad been within thirt,
feet of THEN krcls.
when we rose large steamer flynn
the German flag was within half
mile of rs. II was the North German
Lloyd Altona, from New York t
Bremen. raised our whole hull an
dipped our flag TO her. II was anus
ing 10 see the amazemeut of her pee
pie at what they must have regarde
ms our Unparalleled impudence in thos
English swept waters. They cheere
Us heartily, aud the tricolor flag wa