The daily progressive-miner., 1916-01-19

along our keel. None of us spoke. We all thought we knew what had happened. We had all heard stor- ies about the English traps set fer our boats that go cut and co not return, and it seemed that we were caught by chain, although how trawling could be carried out at such depth we could not guess.
 ''The officers gave no orders, for what was there to do but wait? Then came a stranger noise, rap ping on the hatch. It was repeat ed over and over, and sounded Ike man driving a rivet into a steel plate in a ship yard.
 'The torpedo mate ran into the engine room, where the captain lieutenant was, and they came GU: together, talking in low voices, while the rapping continued. The mate climbed up to the hatch, took off his shoe, and rapped twice with it's heel"
 From the sailors story, it seems there was something like a panic among the crew, which the captain checked with few sharp words of command. Even in the deadliest peril, the German sailor or soldier f is more afraid of his officers than of the enemy or of death itself. Meanwhile, as soon as the mate had signaled with his shoe, the rapping outside commenced again. "You fools it is a diver," said the cap tain. The mate took out a note book, and commenced to write. Once he tapped again with his shoe, in- terrupting the noise from outside. Apparently he asked for something to be repeated which he failed to catch. then the rapping began a. gain.
 After what seemed a long time to the awestricken sailors, the noise stopped, and the mate, still standing on the hatchway, read to the cap tain message something like this, as the sailor said he remembered it:
 "Mine fixed to your hull connect ed to destroyer. If you move side ways to escape it will be exploded. Rise immediately and surrender.
 It seems a short message to take many minutes to rap out by the continental telegraph code, which the mate, it happened, knew. But the difficulty of making the most simple movements under water, when in diving suit, may have hindered the emissary from above from spelling out his message as rapidly as he could have done It in telegraph office; CT perhaps the mental strain on the listening sail CTS made one minute seem like ten.
 The mate rapped few times ill answer and then held a very short conference with the captain. "We crowded about, for we had heard, and we would not have permitted any other answer than the one the herr captain gave" said the narrator
 "Tell him I surrender" said the catpain, and the message was spell ed out by the mates shoe. A moment later the submarine shot to the surface, esld the men piled out on deck. A few yards away a destroyer. Her gun crews were ready for the command to blow U- 27 out of the water.
 Except for this little difficulty, the German might have scuttled a. way in safety. For there was no mine fastened to her. And as the Germans sullenly looked across at the smiling tars around the guns and at other sailors lowering boat to receive them, they saw, hauled over the side of the warship, the diver who had bluffed them into surrendering.
 He had a monkey wrench in one hand, with which he had rapped out is blood-curdling summons to the hull of the U-27, and in the other, was a piece of chain two feet long which he had rasped along the Germans side to make the inmates believe his message.
 The story must stop here, for the rest of it, through no activity of the censor, cannot be printed. It consists of awestricken attempts by