Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-16

started and it skinned across the sur- | face for e hundred yards or moro. rose. times. and then disappeared out at sea | With its floats it looked clumsy be- side an aeroplane-the difference be- | tween a duck and . hawk.
 Most of the romance and the ec- ton of sea warfare while the British fleet to come out are the seaplanes and the destroysrs. The Dreadnoughts remnin In harbor. except for occa- sionai cruises Into the North Sea: but the planes and the destroyers are al- ways on the move. They work to- sether in hunting ''Frits'' as British onhcers and men universally refer to- submarines.
 submarine Is visible to an avia- tor when 1t is cruising below the sur face It never travels deeper than thirty or forty feet and leaves a char acterIstic ripple and air-bubbles. and streaks of oil., When a plane has lo- eatsd a submarine it signals the hunt CTS where to go. But before they arr rive sqIall nay have hidden the trnck. A submarine may be known to be in a certain region and be lost and sean ard loot and seen again Sub- marine haRtinS-is a ttreless game of hide and seek. Naval ingenuity has invented n0.end of methods of loea- tion and f~destructfon- Experiment has proved some to be effeetual and some uEeiess. Strictest kept of naval secrets these.
 Very thin the skin of a submarine and very fragile and complicated its aehinery. It does not take much of shock to put it out of order or q large cargo Of explosives to dent that skin beyond repair.
 "The difficulty Is to know when you | get them" an officer explained: for it is In the nature of the submarine to N-Nr .-rs. r-N. It may have gone to the bottom to stay in fifty fathoms of water. or it may have submerged under a choppy sea and made It's escape We have been hunting them for a year, now. and no doubt we are getting the bet ed how to keep them on from our | great ships but how to destroy them"
 If oil and bubbles come up for a long time in one place or If they come up with rush. that is considered | fairly good evidence of success. There is no escape for the crew. They can not make the submarine rise. or get | out of It. It becomes a steel caskei
 in a watery grave. No nautical mind
 Is required to realize that by castinl
 about on the bottom with a grapne you will learn If an object with ths
 bulk and size of a submarine is there; and the death" of submarines Is es.
 tablished in this way.
 The Admiralty will not accept an,
 guesswork about it''. said an o1icer
 We may have put an explosive righ
 into one or rammed it in a way tha
 must have broken its back; but tha
 is not proof enough The record goel
 down on the chart as supposed des
 troyed.'"
 With Admiral Crawford the cores spondent of The Associated Pres went to see the submaTine defense
 of a harbor. Cruisers and destroyer and auxil.aries were going and com ing. but the narrow openings througl stantly they were by. There wa more than one obstruction. If sub marine got past the nnst or the sec ond, It was in a pocket Several hay
 been caught in this way.
 Take carel There Is a tide here! war warned. We don't want ito SC ] caught In trap meant for Fritz." ? At one naval base the corresponden 5 saw a number of destroyers lyin l moored to a quay as close together a Ash in a basket They had just com
 Here today and gone tomorrow
 said an officer. What a time the
 had last winter And they are in fc | | another winter of It.. You know ho'
 cold the North Sea is-no. you caun< III unless you have been out in a torps III do-hoat dancing the tango in n
 teeth of that bittr wind, with tf
 spray whipping up to the top of tf
 gmokestacks- In the dead of nigi |. they would come into this pitch-dar e harbor.S How they found their way ' past me. It's q trick of those your a fellows who command"
 r If destroyer gets on the track of = submarine it has thirty knots again . the submarines six or eight. The = is no difnculty in keeping up: h !. The fast turbine destroyers seemed "a slip over the water as if their bo
 toms were oiled. Only a few of q r, crew are exposed when showers ,T freezing spray sweep the decks. al ,e all are clad In thick. shert coats 's llama wool. which keep their bodi ' warm and leave the legs free f
 movement in keeping footing as q N destroyers roll and plunge in hea' IF sea. ssra
 = Iceland to the British Channel is al 'H part of the system of submari :. hunting, They show no lights; the "a are no lfghts along the coast at nigl 'It gives one an idea of Engians "a maritime resources". said an one A4 trawlers and other auxiliary ships
 The trawlers plod over plotted SC
 squares with the regularity of mo- | ing-machines cutting q harvest.
 their way. back and forth sweeping
 mines. They were fishermen bcfc the war and are fishermen stili. Tn Come into -ilarbozz stin with co thaw out have a rest and return
 their vigils and their hardships- H | youd them. the cruisers and the de troyere are patrolting on the wat | for any sign of q German ship corni out past Heiigoiand.
 
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