South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-04-12
ROMANTIC STORY
OF SUBSEA WAR
Submarine Does Much De-
Struction in Short Trip
Fires on Trains.
InternatIonaI - -


NEW YORK. April 12.--One Of the
most romantic stories of the war IS
contained Ia a letter received here,
describing how the British submarine
III entered the sea 81 Marmoras
SINK % ships IN - days. shellod two
lailway trains and did other dam
age.
In the letter. which follows. "COch-
rano" Is the E-7's commander.
ave returned safely after twenty
four days up the Dardauelles in the
sea Of Marmora. 10 is hopeless 10
Try 10 give detailed account in "A let
ter. but you can take il from me il
was a fine show we broke all pre-
vious records. Cochrane was aDso-
lutely splendid The tale of our do
ihgs is the sort OF thing one reads az
in the old days. We went around thc|
Sea OF Marmora. leaving a trail OIL
sunk and burning ships We fairly
shook things 20 the core
we are the first submarine i'm his
tory to lombard a place on shore
under fire J. think we were under
fire about three times "a day on an
average, and penetrated into an sorts
Of places and destroyed shipping. We
even shelled a railway and destroyed
two troop trains. We shelled the en-
tankment and blocked the line AMI
then caught the trains as they came
along. IL was the funniest thing yOu
can imagine 20 see the trains try 10
hide behind trees. but we caught
them and smashed them all TO blazes.
fs
terrible explosion. The soldiers. OF
course, got out and took TO cover and
fired tons of ammunition at us. but
we were out of range.
although we sunk one gunbOat.
five steamers. Cone of 5000 tons
and II large selling ships. and hit
two trains, one railway embanSment.
and a few villagers who fired on ms
and got it in the neck for doiog so.
We also dived up TO Constant noDle
and fired a torpedo at "a wharf and
at the arsenal. where there were "a
lot OF ammunition lighters, and there
was a most terrific explosion. which
shook the boat although We were
one and one-quarter miles away.
What happened i don't know, but
something must have got IL in the
neck, judging by the bang. We had
a small duel with a small gunboat
one day on the surface and drove
her off although she fired zoo
rounds from her two guns. After
that we were left alone and every
thing ran like Blazes when we got
anywhere near.
The only drawback was that we
all had dysentery. and Halifax. the
second officer. and a seaman got bad
" burned setting fire Co a steamer
so Cochrane and had TO keep watch
all the time. and by the time twenty
four days were gone. were absolutely
done up. What Halifax went through
with his burned feet for three weeks
below 1 don't know.
I'VE had no trouble i'm diving i'm
the Sca of Marmora. but when we
came down we had an awful time as
the Turks had rugged up all sorts of
nets and things to catch us. and we
got mixed up In them and also were
f0uled BY mines three times.
The reception we got in the har-
Dor was great. The whole fleet and
everything manned the rails and
cheeTed as madly. Just imagine US
all dirty a. unshaven. and the
flag With bullet holes all over it, and
coming tower an dents from bullets
and rUsty-steamnE through the
lines and thousands Of men cheering
like mad. BattleshipS. cruisers. tor
Bedo boats. transports, and the cap
tains leading the cheers Tt vas
great / have heard cheers before.
but this was the real tning. Poor old
Cochrane's eyes were fun of tears rs
he salated to the cries of Are we
dOwn-hearted p and well done,
ETY."
AT present 7 ann resting ON land
and bas<ing I'm the light of popular
favor. 1t is very nice To Dee "a hero
among ones own cloth. YOU know,
because they really mean it, and they
really understand