The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-26
KIPLINC WRITES
ANOTHER TALE
OF The TRADE"
The Ella Had a Hot Time in
the DardanelIes.
Surrounded by Enemies Daring
Submarine Did Her Duty.
UNLIKE GERMAN PLUNGERS
British "Subs" Can Be Thor
ough and Human, Too.
Under-Sea Etiquette Prescribes
Few FOrmalitieS.
Surrounded by Enemies Daring
Submarine Did Her Duty.
UNLIKE GERMAN PLUNGERS
Under-Sea Etiquette Prescribes
Few FOrmaIitieS.
BY RUDYARD KIPIING.


London. June 26.-This war is like
an iceberg We. the public. only see
an eighth of it above water; the rest
is out of sight and. as with the berg
one guesses at its extent by the great
blocks that break off and shoot up
to the surface from some underlying
outrunning spur a quarter of a mile
away
So. with this war, sudden tales come
to light which reveal unsupported ac-
tivities in unexpected quarters One
takes it for granted that such things
are always going on somewhere but
the actual emergence of the record
is always astonishing
once upon Il time there was Ger
tain E-type of boats that worked IN
the Sea Of Marmora with thorough
ness and humanity, for the TWO. IN
English hands. are compatible. me
road to their hunting grounds was
strewn with peril the waters they IN
habited were full of eyes that gave
them no rest and what they lost or
expended in the wear and tear of the
chase could not be made good till they
had run the gauntlet to their base
again The full take of their impro-
visations and make-does will prob
ably never come to light, though fras-
mects can be picked up at intervals
in tho proper places as the men con-
ccrned come and go
Bones of Story.
The admiralty gives only the bones
but those are no- so dry-Cf the
boats official story
When the Ella. Commander f.
Courtney Boyle. went to her work in
the Sea of Marmora, she, like her
sister. .'proceeC ed" on i gas engine up
the Dardanelles. And a gas engine
by night between steep cliffs has been
described by the lower deck as "a
full brass band in a railway cutting"
So fort picked her up with search
light but missed her with it's artil-
lery. She dived under a mine field
that guarded the straits and when
she rose at dawn ir he narrowest
part Of The channel. which is about
one mile and half across, all the
forts fired ut her
The water, too, was thick with
steamboat patrols. out of which the
Ella selected a Turkish gunboat and
gave her torpedo. She had just time
to see a great column of water shoot
as high as the gunboat's mast when
she had to dip again as the men in
a small steamboat were leaning over
trying to catch hold of the top of my
periseope This sentence, which
might nave come out of a French ex-
erclSe book. is all Lieutenant Com
mander Courtney Boyle sees fit to tell
and the officer will never understand
why one taxpayer at least demands his
arrest after the war till he shall have
given the full tale.
How Was 1t?
Dld ne sight the shadowy Under
line OF a small steamboat showing
sreeh through his headlight or did
she suddenly swim into vision from
behind and obscure, without Ivarning
ms periscope with a single hro1r[n
cIutcnlng hand? Was she alone or ono
OF mob of splashing shouting small
cratt He may well have been too husv,
- note TOT there were patrols all
around his. mine field of curious de-
sign ana underlined area somewhere in
'front.' ana steam trawlers vigorously
sweeping for him astern and ahead
anu a Wnen the Ella burrowed and
Jumped and scraped through civ
hours OF blind death she found the So
q Ma S crawling with craft and
vas kept down almost continuorsi,,