The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-25
KIPLING TELLS. MORE
OF THE TRADE"
tories Submarines In the Sea of Mamora As Cleaned
From the Official Reports-Desroyers and Patrols Make
the Undersea GRATIS Work q Perilous One at AL
Times
ny RupYARp KILLING.

N Iceberg We, the public. only see
an eighth Of Il above water; the rest
Is auf Of SIGHT and. as with the berg,
ona guessee at its extent by the
great blocks that break of and shoot
IN 10 the surface from some underly-
sas out-running spur a quarter OF a
rs . away.
so, with this war. sudden tales
coiae to light which reveal unEuspect-
cd activities in unexpected quarters.
ere takes y for granted that such
,xs are always going on some
here but the actual ererEerce of
tfs4 record Is always astonishing
1rce upon time there was GER
taa E-Ty-re ~ boats who worked in
,ae sea 81 Ma-mora with thorough
- and humanity, for the two, in
e. Sltsh hands are compatible The
IA 70 their hunting grounds vas
aun with pearl the waters they in
h s.tet v~ers full OF eyes that gave
'scm no rect and what they lost or
eAperdsd 81 the wear and tear OF the
Use could rot Re made good til
hey had run the gauntlst 20 their
fa~ again The full take Of their i'm
yrovisators and make-does will
baby never come to light, though
g. gnerts can Re picked up at inter
in the proper places as the men
C. acerued come and so. The ad.
= rally gives only the bones (out
zee are not SO. drS) Of the bite of
sorry
when the E-l4 Commander Z
urtney BOYLE. went to her work in
49,. sea OF Marmora she Ike her
s ter. proceeded" on a gas engine
the Dardaneiles, And gas en-
r ae by night between steep cliffs
r1s been described by the lower deck
a fun brass band in a railway
ttins So fort picked her up
= m lie artillery she dived under a
ire field that guarded the straits
d when she rose at dawn In the
.rrovest part Of the channel. which
e about one mile and a half across,
/ the forte nred at her.
The water, too, was thick with
sambost patrol. out OF which the
la selected Turkish gunboat and
ave her a torpedo She had Just
me 10 see a great column OF water
boot as high as tn. gunhoats mas
when she had to dip again as the
aen IN a small steamboat were lean
ng over trying to catch hold OF the
op Of my periscope"
This sentence which might have
all Lleutenant-Comma Courtney
Boyle sees IT 10 tell and the officer
AMI! never understand why one tax
.raHsT al least demands hia arrest af-
xr the war till NJ shall have given
he full tale
The Why of the Steamboat.
Did he sight the shadowy under
line Of small steamboat shown I
green through his headlights, or aid
she suddenly swim into VISION far be-
hind and obscure without warning
his psrscope with single brown
clutt hing hand Was she alone or
che ~ a mob Of lashing shouting
small chaft" He may we'll havs
teen too huss TO note for there were
patrols All around him. a mine field
~ curious design and underlined ares
some where IN front and steam trawl.
tfs Vigorously sweeping for him as
tern and ahead and when the Ell
nurrowcd and bumped and scraped
through SIX hours Of blind death, shs
found the sea Of Marmora. crawling
With craft and was kept down almos
continuously and grew hot and stuff!
a. consequence Nor could sh.
rhafae her batteries In peace. so a
the end Of another hectic haunted
Gay Of starting them up and breakin,
them off and diving-which is bad fol
the temper-she decided 10 quit thes.
infested waters near the coast anc
charge them somewhere off the traf
tic routes
Dcstroyers On the job
This accomplished after a long no
run. which did the motors no good
she went back to her beat where sh.
picked up three destroyers conveying
e couple Of troop ships bu, it va!
CLASSY calm and the destroyers cam.
for me " She got OF a long rang,
torpedo at a transport and dfv~d be
fore she could Judge the results Sh'
spologized for this on the ground
that one o. her periseopes was dam
aged-not as one would expect, b,
gentlemen leaning out Of little steam
boats, but by some casual shot--th,
cahbrs IS NOT specihed-on the da,
before ard so. says the Ella, q
could not risk my remaining one be
ing bent However, she heard
thud and her depth gauges thos,
great clock hands on whg faced cir
cles nlcked,' which /. another sigr
of dreadful. certainty down under
When she rose again she saw
DESTROYER conveying one buyninl
transport TO the nearest beach Tina
afternoon she met sister boat nov
gone TO Nalhalla. who told her tina
she was almost ont Of torpedoes ans
they arranged a rendezvous for tn.
next day. but before We could com
rluricate further we had u divs Anc
did not see her again"
Many Such Meetingr
There must be many such meettn 4,
In the trade under ali skies, boa;
rising beside boat az a point agreet
upon for interchange OF news, ma
terials and talk shouted aloud with
the speakers eyes always on the hori
zon and all hands standing by Il
dive even in the middle of a sen
tence The Ella kept TO her lob or
the edge of the procession of traffic
The patrol boats annoyed her to sucl
an extent that "zs | had not seen ans
transports lately I decided to sink q
on me. So ehe torpedoed q thinS
that locked mine fayer-anc
must have\ been something OF thai
kind--for It sank In less than q
minute. tramp steamer iumherins
across the dead nat sea was thou Eht.
fully headed back TO Ccnstantinopis
by hring of rifle ahead Of her.
We were under nre the whols
day the Ella observed phitosophi.
cally The nature OF her work made
ms inevitable. She was all amons
he patrols which kept her down a
good deal and made her draw OH her
batteries and when she rose to charge