Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-30

head whirling dizzily, while furious storm lashed the surface, and British destroyer secured the sea in search of her prey, is narrated in graphic detail by the U-boat's commander Captan Koenig, in the follow 1 ing article, received from Berlin via Say vile by tie international News Service on October 22 lsst:
 We were early to learn the importance of ] test submersions and to find out how in 1 hnitely necessary 1t is to have the great, heavy boat firmly in hand, with keen and constant eye on all in6nitesimal details.
 bad decided that in the following night, between the darkest hours, between II and ocIuck, we would travel submerged with 1 the "E' engines.
 1 In the dusk of & long summer day we plunged downward; there was cnly lit tle wind, but the sea surgcd high, sure sign that within a few hours the wind would grow into g storm
 About o'clock gave orders to rise. As | tke boat rose to the surface its movements | became wilder and wilder, which proved to me that the storm had come, and with 1t still higher seas Occasionally we made yer itabie leaps but we csIm,y blew out our tanks and got to the surface in quite orderly manner
 As we reached periscope depth tried to look around; but it was still almost i'm possible to see anything, for every second CT so the ianky weeds would cut into thick water mountains Then, too, there was the dawn, which made the waves appear even more uncanny and bigger through the peri scope as they rolled on with their crushing force.
 Then we came completely up to the sur face, and 1 mounted the coming tower to get correct view of the wildly dancing sea. Fine weather this was
 All around us in the misty dawn, was a witchs caudron of waveburgs with foaming crowns toys of the wind, which b:ew of their water dust and sent 1t sizzling through the air.
 he boat worked hard; 1t was a tough tussle. Frequently, nutshell that she was, she had to give way before the powerful element The whole deck was flooded, of course. Every minute the sea dashed against the tower and, its force broken, trickled past me in dense spray of rain l clung to the bath tub" and searched the horlzon-a GU rous horizon 1t wes a mass of water noun tains moving stepwlse Tn and out one an other.
 was just about to give orders to put on the oil engines Glas
 What was that?
 That dark stripe over there, wasn't that smoke flag?
 But it's aready gone, hidden behind the back of rising wave, rising into the dawn gray sky.
 I waited and stared through the glass till my eyes ached.
 There it was again; it was dark smoke llag-and :here, lcoll A mast top, thin as needle. but l have it in my glass and TOW. now, bore my eyes into the glass What Is 1t that comes cut Of the veil ot vsvcs-that dark thing over there-the n.oke above it, four low tunnels.
 Donnerwetter, it's destroyer!
 With one leap I am back in the turret, have closed the lower hatch.
 Alarm "Submerge quietly .'-'tlu- tenr'-Depth rudder ?'-"Go to twenty meters"
 The commands followed one another as in breath. But their execution!
 With this sea- to submerge headlong Is, according to all experiences, sheer insanity.
 But what will I do?
 The destroyer might have seen us already
 Down we must, and in as big hurry as possible, too.
 Below me in the "sentrale" the men are working in feverlsh, noseless haste. The rapid-airng vents are opened, the com pressed air misses from the tanks-the sub merging valves are singing in all keys.
 stand with tightly squeezed lips, gaze through the coming tower lookout over the raging sea all about us, {evershly look ng for the first sign of going deeper.
 But 1 still see our deck. Again and agan a wave washes US upwards.
 We have not another moment to spare
 Dive deeper' IS my next command, and Both engines extreme power ahead"
 The whole boat trembles and shakes un- der the increased engine pressure and makes a couple of real jumps; 1t literally staggers ;n the wild sea-will it not go down pretty soon? With sudden jerk the Deutschland darts down below the wave tide and now bending her bow lower and lower, she de scends into the depths. The light of the just dawning day disappears from the tur- ret windows; the manometer shows in quick succession, two-three-si -six-ten meters,
 But the boat bends lower and lower We stagger, lean backwards and slip; we lose all foothold as the boat jerks abruptly downward-I manage to grasp the ocular part of the periscope, and down below, in the "sentrale," the men are cllnglng to the hand wheels of the depth rudder-a few terrible seconds pass
 We have not yet realized our new sltua- tion-there is violent crash, we are hurled to the foor and everything that IS not compact or nailed down IS thrown into wild pell-mell
 Recovering from the shock, we find our selves in the most extraordinary positions, We look at one another and for moment there is silence. Then the first officer, kra pohl, says quite dryly:
 "Well, so we have arrivedP That breaks the abominable tension. | Rut we all had become quite pale and