Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-05
Tells of Sea Manners of
Commanders and Re-
markable Intrepidity
of Crcu.
ny HENRY REUTERDAIL.


Frank List. an American sailor boy.
captured by the famous German U39.
has written for me. for the Intcrna-
tional News Service. the first and only
narrative that has come out OF the
war zone telling exactly how twentieth
century naval warfare is made by sub
marines.
Young List sailed from Oregon last
spring on the Norwegian vessel Cam
bus Kenneth, loaded with wheat for
Queenstown. She was caught In the
Irish Channel by the German subma-
rine C-39 and sunk.
Most OF the crew Of twenty were
sent away in lifeboat for shore. but
Carl List the son of German American
parents, was taken on board the SUBJ
marine, and became a working pas
scnger, passing ammunition.
He remained there eleven days, dur
ing the remainder OF the most success
full under-sea voyage the U-39 ever
made. While he served board OF
her, she chased fourteen enemy ships
and sunk eleven of them.
When her ammunition was exhausted
the submarine returned to the German
naval base at Helgoland, where Carl
List was discharged.
The American lad was penniless and
without clothes, except for the gar
ments he wore. Ambassador Gerard
enabled him to reach Rotterdam and
ship for home. The ambassador gave
him letter The boy came straight
to me- and then he wrote his story.
ABLE TO MEMORIZE
DETAILS OF SUBMARINE
Carl List is very intelligent.
straightforward and observant boy.
He spent week at my house. and,
knowing something OF naval matters. I
| was able to check up on his story. His
aptitude for mechanics and drawing
helped him to memorize the details of
J the submarine
| A ss,i bmarineSis the most democratic
place on top of earth or sen or under
| sea. True. one officer has supreme
command. but he lives, works and eats
| with his highly skilled crew. All are
covered with the dirt and oil and Shiny
exudations OF the submarine.
Speaking German. and having the
free run OF the ship ammunition
Lasser and helper In the mess room,
Carl List understood everything he
heard and everything to be seen.
His story is the biggest page yet
written Of the naval war. 1t Is the
first story of war seen from the inside
OF one of the newest submarines. and
It tells OF the sea manners Of the sub
! marine commanders, the remarkable
perfection of machinery, and the in
trepidity and the physical endurance
under extraordinary strain of the per-
sonnet
After n voyage Of nearly 5000 miles.
the submarine U-39. having bagged
eleven enemy ships while Carl was on
hno ri nod 70 hAr hnS
cause she was out OF fuel or stores
only because she was out of torpedoes.
She still had oil, electricity stored and
food In ample quantities for a longer
voyage.
THRILLING EXPERIENCE FOR
SEVENTEEN-YEAR- hoy
The nrst cnapter or the narrative
was published in The Times Dispatch
to-day. 1t told how List, seventeen
years old born In Portland. Ore. OF
German parents, sailed on the Nor
wegian fullrigged ship Cambus Ken
meth. 1850 tons Captain Sole. home
port Tvedestrande. .>orway, bound
for Queenstown with wheat Tor orders.
The ship went round Cape Horn. She
was n clean and fine sailer, and first
heard OF the submarine playing havoc
with shipping by signaling a passing
steamer off the coast of Brazil. in the
South Atlantic. Nearing the Irish
coast on June IS, the Cambus Kenneth
was boarded and searched by a British
cruiser. II. NJ. S. Woodruff.
The next day. about T. NJ.
while Carl was trying to take a sponge
! bath and get on some clean clothes
| Bang" Just then came shot
For all the world. the shot came
4 hi tn,
save Jumps of water. snarling seas. un-
| inviting and very wet. The carpenter.
who had served in the Kaiser's navy
made out n speck on the horizon. and
| said German submarine!
Every one acted plumb crazy. One
would lower n sail, another belay. The
| second mate got so excited that he did
| not know port from starboard."
| It was the famous U-39, although
| Carl did not find 1t out until he boarded
the submarine later. The submarine
commander ordered the Kenneth's crew
| to shift for themselves in the lfeboat,
| to make for Fastnet, on the Irish coast,
some twenty miles away. He bawled ::
'If there are any Germans on board,
I'll take them"
Carl List soon found himself gaping
| like schoolboy on board the subma-
rtne. The Cambus Kenneth was sunk
by nine shells. fired in quick succession.
from the submarines deck guns.
She went down in a whirlpool. and
the whining bark OF the poor dog, for
| gotten in the getaway, was heard by
Carl above the swash OF the sea.
| The second installment OF Carl List 8
story-his first week OF service on
board the Observation-Disclosures:
| nv CANT Ny<
| Copyright, 1915, by the Star Company. }
! A string OF commands. a rumble OF
machinery, then a denthlike silence, and
! / was told that we were under the
surface. invisible and deep enough to
let ships pass over US. With my pillow
case OF clothes under my head. l
dropped on the llnoleum on tho floor
OF the mess room. Next to mo was the
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