The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-15
1T HUNTS SUBMARINES

1T HUNTS SUBMARINES
! With Ample Air, Bomb and
Torpedo Equipment Former
Liner Is Nemesis of Deep
r ONpON. oct 10 Strnngest look
IL ing uf all the ships with tho Brit |
! ish grand fleet is the Atlantic liner
which has been transformed into Il
mother ship for the seaplanes There
ARE platforms In place of the prom
cnndc where passengers used to lounge,
bombs IN place Of deck-Quolts, aud the
dining suluOus have been fitted mp NJ
workshops. Everything that Il sea
plane needs In the way 0f repairs can
be supplied.
"llrrp - our assortment Of bombs,
said All officer, showing an exhibit ot
| different Sizes on shelf, THAT ohH
weighs IL hundred pounds, the same rs
Il siX.lurh shell
what do you use them onl' he was
asked
Anything. from German cruiser
II We get chance at one, to Il snoma
rlne That blk bomb would finish
Zeppelin too"
Cranes Left SeaplaneS
4 crane that once hnd taken pas
sengers trunks out OF the hold lifted
II spaplanr of platform and deposit
cd Il Oh the water, where u bounced
ON the waves before the motor was
started and II skinned across the sur
furc for hundred yards or more
ro,r clrcled around the fleet two or
three times. and then disappeared OUT
at sen. with It's floats II looked clum-
sy beside an Reroplane-the ditier'
encr between duck and II hawk.
Most Of the romance aud the action
Of sea warfare while the British
grand fleet waits for the German tleet
TO come out are the seaplancs and the
destroyers. The dreadnOughts remain
I'm harbur, except for occasional cruises
into the North sea but the planes ana
the drstroyers are always on the move
They work together In hunting 'fritZ
rs British officers aud men uhl'ers
ally refer to submarines.
Submarines Easily Seen
4 submarine Is visible 10 an aviator
when It Is cruising below the surface
II never travels deeper than thirty or
forty feet and leaves characteristic
ripple and alrbubbles and streaks oi
oil When plane has located n sub
marine II signals the hunters whore toI
20 But before they arrive a squall
may have hidden the track. A snhmh-
rlne may be known to be In n certain
reiun and be lost and seen And lost
and seen again Submarine hunting
Is a tlreless game Of hide and seek.
Naval ingenuity has Invented no end
Of methods u location aud uf destruc-
tion. Experiment hns proved some to
be- effpctual and some useless. Strict
est kept Of naval secrets these.
Very thin the skin Of a submarine
aud very fragile and complicated It's
machinery IL does not take much Of
u shock to put Il out Of order or u
r large cargo " explosives tU dent that
skin beyond repair
Dive Like Fish HarpOOned
"Thr difficulty is to know when YOU
get thrm nm officer explained Tor II
4. {, In the nature of the submarine to
~ sink whether yitally injured Or not.
II may have gone 10 the bottom 10
STAY I'm fifty fathOms Ut wafer or II
u Imuy have submerged under II chuppy
It ,ru and made IT. escape We have
Il been hunting them for year now,
Il and uu doubt we are getting the better
+, NJ them We have not only learned
/ how tu keep them of frou our great
ships. hut how to destroy them"
uI n oil and bubbles come up fur long
r time in one place or II they come mp
nj with rush, that Is considered fairly
II good evidence uf success. There Is no
10 escape for the crew They cannot
r make tile submarine rise ur get cut NJ
4 H. II becomes steel. casket iu q Wnt.
u rry grave. M nautical mind is re
If uulrcd tn realize that by casting about
~ ou the bottom wiki grupncl You win
learn II an object with the bulk aud
Size of submarine Is there aud the
b. "dcuth' Of submarines Is established
= In this way.
Guess Work Doesn't 60
Z The admiralty will not accept any
gucsswork about It. said an officer
we may have put an explosive right
into one or rammed II IN way that
must have broken It's back but that Ia
not proof enough The record goes
down on the chart as supposed de.
stroyed
With Admiral Crawford the cores.
pOndent of the Associated Press went
J to see the submarine defenses uf a
harhOr Cruisers and destroyers and
guXlllarles were going and coming, but
the narrow openings through which
they passed were closed instantly they
were by. There was more than one ob.
struction II sumarine got past the
first or the second. It was IN II pucket.
Several have been caught In this way.
Take care There ls tide here -
the coNswuin Of the admlrals barge
was warned I'VE don't want tn get
caught IN trap meant for Fritz
At one naval base the correspondent
saw number of destroycrs living
moored to quay as close together as
fish In basket They had lust come
In from tour at sen
Here To-day Gone TOmorrow