The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-11
/ PERSONAL
THE GHOULISH PART
Englands Drowning of a Submarine 'an Inhuman Task-Wait for
 s Death Bubbles
(Worcester TeIegraml

Men of the British navy have taken many submarines of the enemies out of their wire traps. That they make these undersea boats over and send them out as English submarines to torpedo other craft of the enemies is taken for granted though it is not ad-
 mitted in the official reports. Worces-
 ter men may have made some of the
 wire in the traps which have captured
 the German and Austrian submarines.
 and there may be some satisfaction in
 that part of the work. Englishmen
 whose duty it is to take in the trapped
 diving boats, do not like the work. It
 is the most gruesome of all the ghoul-
 ish business of the great war in Eur
 ope, they claim.
 An English doctor who has been
 with the ''rescue" crews, tells the
 story, but he admits there is no sense
 ofrescue about it, for nothing. is done
 to raise the submarine from the trap
 until all on board are dead, and it is the most horrible of all the deaths of war, the doctor claims. When a sub marine strikes one of the thousands of wire nets set all around the British Isles, there is no known means of es- cape. Every move of the boat means more mixing up with the enmeshed wires. And the wires also telegraph the capture to a naval station auto- matically. Then a destroyer boat hur- ries to the trap like a hunter who dsi- covers that game has been caught in his deadfal1. ,S The destroyer takes position above the submerged boat.
 And the doctor is still more graphic in further description. Then there is nothing to do but wait, sometimes for hours, some times for days. Off cers and men of the waiting vessel know whats going on down in the green depths. They know that in time bubbles will come to the surface and oil will spread over the sea. The des- troyer waits for the bubbles, death bubbles they call them, for they tell of death struggles going on in the submarine" That may seem simple to people who never tried it, and of course an Englishmen should not bother about how much an enemy of his country suffers in war time.
 Still men are all more or less hu- man in their thoughts, if not in their acts, and the doctors says it is fright full there over ian expiring corps of men who are experts in the worst kind of warfare practiced. They suffer un- til the horrible end, and in some cases it appears that the waiting men safe above them suffer more and longer until the death bubbles rise to the top and show through the oil, and then the hoisting crane comes and lifts up the submarine and the net and the takes place.
 And you may expect to read what the English naval men find in the Ger man submarine. On that point -the doctor says: "Seamen who fought through the maelstrom of Skager Rae will tell you their story, but no sailor speaks of the sights seen in a recovered submarine. Those sights make strong men weak and drive sehsitive men. de- Iirious with horror" Then there is something about the war which is not allowed event to get as far as the censors. It is too horrible for the observers to talk about. And sailors are not as rule squeamish. For that reason and some others, it is probably not true that for months, as the cable reports have it, the German people have beeR urging the imperial govern ment to turn the submarines loose to | do their worst with the peaceful ship ping of all nations.