The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-08
Noted Inventor Under water Launched.

The damage done by a torpedo, fired from a submarine; the great distance at which these can now be aimed di- rectIy at an object, and the little chance of resistance by a great ship like the Lusftania is graphically e1- pressed to the Evening Farmer today by Simon Lake. inventor of the style Of submarine which has recently taken a prominent part in naval warfare, and which are probably responsible for the sinking of the IsIsitania. yes-l terday. #5 That a torpedo fired by a Japanesa cruiser at the Russian batt1eship Ret. zfva1l, tore4a gaping hole nearly forty feet square in her armored side, was the Statement made by an officer who survived the terrible experiences to Capt. Lake when he was in the Orient. With two such holes in her side, prob ably several. feet distant and coming Of the Lalsftania were in 3. trap The scenes of death and destruction must have been appalling.
 That the passengers on board the I.usitania, may never have seen the little monster of the deep until they were fIoundering in the water with no possible aid from the submarine that viewed the struggling bodies with compassfon though three inch glass
 eyes and their. mtrrorsoope tubes is more than probable from the accounts of submarine warfare detailed. at 1 length today by the well known uT1-
 der water craft authority.
 Simon Lake declared today that I with the periscope of a submarine sub ! merged a distance of 6 inches beneath the calm surface of sea water, unless followed constantly with the eye, at l a distance of 50 feet away, it will not be observed. Once lost never found. ! is his own personal experience
 He further declared that there could have been no resistance from Iusitania had carried heavy arna- naent, because with her periscope lithree feet under water she could not have been seen fifty feet distant from 4 the big ships side. and the chances I were she was one thousand yards dis
 have 1ocated her, though aiIned by trained officers.
 The scenes on hoth the vessel and I little submarine may be pictured from l descriptions of submar1nez torpedo I warfare as follows The great ship lMnuwfng the lurking danger, is trav- cling at her best speed limit, chang I ing the course from time to time ir 4l a zig-zag manner. Waiting beneath l the surface of the calm sea "a. big
 submarine, now said to be capable
 of discharging a torpedo at a dis tanCe or nVe miles, rolls 1Ct4y Tn the | lin4ergr ound swell. Her crew sare
 sleeping or talking in the seni-feti6 atmosphere that the compressed air. I tanks relieve from time to time AT
 officer sits with his eye glued to 6 periscope, which constantly revoIve.
 that he may discern the rising smoke I Of an approaching vessel. On the I deck of the Lusitania passengers art EidIy Io11ing in steamer chairs. or lean ing over the rails. They covertl, I fear attack, yet the horizon shows n,
 sign of the impending calamity.
 Suddenly the submarine command
 CT focuses his periscope upon a fain and hazy line on the horizon. Closet, he watches it move until assured 0 it's fact and the direction. An cleo
 tric signal. and the submarine crey
 is in place. Another. and the boa
 swings silently and slowly on it course diagonal to that of the ap proaching vessel. The electric en zines turn without noise, for the bi 5 ships submarine detectors to locate 5 The vessels near each other. An or der is transmitted from the connin Fower to the forward compartnen | of the subnlarine.e The soutsid ! ports of two bow torpedo tubes ar
 closed, compressed air drives out a.