The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-23
.U-2O2, GERMAN SUBMARINE HAS
 EXCITING TIME
FIees British Destroyer and SubmergeS to Be Hooked
 In MeSheS.

Berlin. June 23.-A sensational cpl sode of submarine warfare is told by Captain Commandant Freiherr Spie- gel in the Diary of U-2O2," which has just been published by August Scherl, in Berlin. It gives some idea of the dangers encountered and tells how the U-202 was caught in a net, but man aged to extricate herself by clever ma neuvering.
 "It was. three minutes after six o'clock and in half an hour it would be sunrise,'' writes Captain Spiegel
 Sky and sea were enveloped in dark gray mist and no horizon was visible. <Suddenly my glasses dis cerned a dark shadow, which came like a ghost out of the mist. Gradu- ally the shadow took more definite form saw a dark hull, a mast, and then one, two, three and four fun ne1s. It was a torpedo-boaf destroy
 CT gave the alarm and shouted the order 'Submerge at once,' Quickly the water began rushing into the tanks and then it seemed an almost inter minable interval until the tanks were filled and the submarine began to sink Never in my life did the seconds pass so slowly. The destroyer, of course had sighted us and came speeding on with all the power of her 40,OOO- horsepower engines. Her forward guns began firing at us.
 Shells Fall All Around.
 Great God! I hope they do not hit us. One single shot and we are lost Our tower was now almost submerg- ed, but I could still see the dark shadow drawing nearer The shells were falling all around us, and as they dropped in the water they made a noise like hammer coming down with full force on a steel plate.
 'One shot came so near that it lift ed our boat half way above the sur face of the water. Another shot and he will surely strike us.
 Slowly we sank, and then the sub marine responded to the movement of the deep-sea rudder and we .dived quickly.
 ''The red-globed electric lights 1 showed that our manometer register ed eight meters, then nine meters, and quickly mounted to IA meters. We were safe. What a feeling of relief | to know that an inpenetrable wall of l water protected us now from the de-l suoyer. Our hearts, that had almost stopped beating, began to /send the 1 warm blood again through our veins. | Our boat sank deeper and deeper, re- spending to every movement of the rudder as faithful horse does to the 1 rein. We were now 30 meters under | the surface.
 we could still hear the crash of | the shells overhead I looked at the l man at the wheel and pointed upward | with my thumb, smiling all the while. | He smiled back at me.
 Suddenly we were thrown head | long in all directions. The subma- | rtne trembled like a wounded animal l For a few seconds we were uncon- scious and our heads and shoulders and all our bones ached.
 What has happened Is 1t all over with us? Did we hit a mine?
 Then the men reported that every thing was in excellent shape. No leaks were found.
 The submarine however was at almost right angles.
 " Captain, there's something wrong said the lieutenant. We are caught In net. and attached to the upper part of the net are mines. This is to drive man crazy
 Bored Right Thros.sh.
 "'Don't lose your nerve shout ed. We'll get out of this. Keep the submarine submerged. Back tip and -hen with all the power of our en- zines, go ahead. But don't rise an nch. Remember the mines above us'
 @The engines worked perfectly. The when she moved forward, bored right into the net and tore it nto bits, and as our, splendid little craft hresponded again to the hesm we gave shout of joy, for we knew that we had extricated ourselves.
 Go deeper, crleo- 'GoN down 70 thirty meters
 'I sat down and held my aching head in my hands My brain seem sd to be whir1ing like a windmill. Needles seemed to be sticking in my forehead and there was a roaring in my ears which tried to stop by plac- ng my hands over then.
 >It was some time befire I was able Q think clearly and then I recogniz- d the fact that we had gone deep enough just in time. The enemy had 10 doubt figured that we would alight fight in to the net, which would ex- olode the mines and annihiIate us As t was we passed directly under the 1 ret, so that the mines exploded in the, direction of least resistance, doing no more damage than to knock us un- conscious naomentarily.
 ''I am willing to let the enemy think ] 1e got us, but I pray that we will never have another such .experience. ] Once was enough It was a, nerve , ordeal. which we never can 'orget."