Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-25


boats anchored certain members Il
the cabinet began to consider their
purchase. Influence brought 20 bear
On the minister OF the navy soon had
the deal put through and up went the
Turkish flag
". Now, funny thing happened, or
didn't happen There was no change
in the men and officers OF the two
boats. They still had German com
manders and German sailors, and SO
definitely was Germany in charge that
not a Turk was allowed to go below
deck on either OF them
The sailors grew pointed boards,
says Pettyjohn. and put fezzes on
their heads instead of the former Ger
man caps. Otherwise things we're the
same on board. Then the two boats
took a run up into the Black Sea, fired
on the Russian flag and as result
brought down war on Turkey. Ger.
many was playing for a straight cut
to the DardaneIles." .-...
Meets British Submarine .... .@-
The submarine incident came during
o trip which began with the intention
of visiting the country back OF the
Turkish lines The party was made
I'D of q number of Americans in Con-
stansinople, including several instruc.
tors from Robert College.
I'VE were in what they called a
transport" says Pettyjohn, but what
was really an old lumber schooner that
had been hastily overhauled We Were
drifting merriIy along through the Sea
of Marmora when somebody sighted a
long white trail o! foam out on the
water, and pretty soon up rose an Eng
fish submarine.
There was a lot Of excitement at
once, you may be sure. This was one
of three English submarines that hac
succeeded in getting through the OAR
danelles and her commander was not
losing any time. Men climbed ont
upon her deck and we were hailed
with the query: Does anybody on
board speak English
"A representative of the Chicago
Daily News leaned over the rail and
responded In the affirmative.
Pm a correspondent of the Chi.
cago Daily News, he shouted
Tell that crowd to get eff and do
IL 0UfCA, came The duSWGTs 2
All Leave In Haste
The crowd got off In their haste
Turkish sailors tore up the deck
boards and made them into RATS. The
disembarking was soon over. The
submarine backed off, fired one ter
yedo about midships and the transport
soon turned up and sunk This warn.
ing was characteristic Of all of these
submarine attacks, he says.
in May OF 1915 the narrator was ono
of a party Of Americans who took
boats down back of the English men
of.war which were firing at the Darda
nelles.
swe could see the flashes going up
from the British guns, he says, then
a little later see the great cloud of
dust and smoke that arose on the hills
over where the land guns were situ-I
ated. The Turks showed great ingen-
tity In concealing their guns behind
the stone embankments.
Three different times Russian
warships came down from the Black
sea to lombard the Notifications
which lie north of Constantinople. We
would hear the bombardment and
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