The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15
was to obey orders.

finding a good bottom. Steinbrtnk dropped her there so that his men could have their breakfast in. peace.
 s'It is the simplest thing in the world, Axel," explained Stelnbr1nk to me that, night over a bottle of Rhine wine. His Majesty has been charm ed by. the voice of somebody in Eng land, and by Sydow's jabber. about finance. He has cut down the naval ing to do so.A
 Most of all he has jeered at the proposed expenditure on undersea boats, because Tirpitz and his friend Basserman do not believe in them yet. It was necessary that he should see for himself.
 "If these had been a British su- marine, and a British torpedo-boat- and he believes they were, Axel. he believes they were-he might well have thought he was being watched in an unfriendly and impertinent manner. I rather thing he will change his mind about the September naval manoeuvres being of trifling import ance; and about the naval estimates as well.'' In both these guesses, First Naval lieutenant Otto Steinbrink was quite correct. The naval manoeuvres held in Sep tember of that year (1911) were the most important that had ever taken place in the history of the German Navy. It was given out that the whole strength of the navy, some 200 vessels, were engaged, as we'll as 500,- | 900 troops, which took part in a very realistic landing.
 The manoeuvres took place, not in the North Sea, as might have been expected, but in the Baltic, along a stretch of coast from Lubeck in the west to Swinemunde in the east. | No doubt these manoeuvres were | very interesting and important: I re- member reading very interesting ac- counts of them in the papers. For my part, know nothing of them ex- cept what I have read, and been
 shown by Steinbrink, who collected all the available literature on the sub- ject.
 He was much amused to read in the British and French papers some caus. tic comments on the German back wardness in submarine warfare.
 He, like myself, e>,uld only go by hearsay as to what took place. We were both of us busy elsewhere al ithe time.
 It was in the first weeksof Septem-
 Der of that year-on the 4th of the month, according to my diary-that : we again put out from the North Sea
 mouth of the Canal in the black o1
 night in our well-tested 21 In the morning we picked up little steam CT westward bound, and flying the Danish flag. She appeared to be loaded to the gunwa1e with herring , casks, and laboured heavily in the ), unruffled sea.
 She made but poor headway 7 though everything was in her favor : and we accommodated our pace te , hers. All that day and night, an6 , throughout the next day we hovere6 } about her, while she steamed heavily [ on. In the dark of the second nigh 7 she hove to, and Steinbrink gave the 5 order to emerge and launch tht : dinghy.
 3 He and I, together with his mid
 shtpman, g. young fellow named l Schultz, went aboard the steamer l and I found, without much surprise r that's he was manned by picked mel g from the German Navy
 We took surroundings, and then ; g long fish-shaped object which ha, r been towed by. wire ropes attached t, y the steamers keel was carefuIll 8 freed, and as carefully lowered to tn : bottom.
 Ten minutes later the steamer wa : on her way back eastward to Emden e whence she had come, and we wer @ gently following the great fish-shape f object to the bottom of the sea. t All hands were allowed to rest fo f some hours. but 1t seemed to me d had been asleep but a minute or tw o when I was awakened by Stet
 
 - weather is just right for a trial Q
 the diving trap.'' ~ l. Silently I rose, and together wit, u Schultz we proceeded to the nyster d scus afrtrap at the stern, which ha,
 been the subject of so much conjec l. ture ever since the U 21 had been m $ in commission.
 tt Steinbrink quickly donned the gea
 Of a deep-sea- diver. Without a mo l. ment's hesitation he slipped out c
 the cabin into the diving compart sI ment, and soon we received the signs '- that told us he had found his wa
 safely to the, bottom of the sea! Tn Q submarine had not taken in one dro l. of water.
 l. For the next twenty minutes W g were sufficiently busy with the air
 pumps to feel no more than usus j. anxiety; but when his absence wa
 protracted beyond that time we look n ed at one another with faces on whic j. fear was plainly written. is Then, just as we were fearing tn n worst again, we received the sigma y and releasing the trap, received hi1 l. safely in. We removed his, helme
 and found him triumphant, thoug d exhausted.
 t. 1"1t works like a charm up to now le he proclaimed. Now we must 2 ,r to the loil-pumps"
 m In few minutes we had the ele, n, tr1c pump working, and I was amaze Is to see steady flow of oil pourin le into the half empty tank steinbrin
 was beside himself with joy, and tt le younger officer was equally excite d When the oil tank had been file b. the pumps were stopped; and Steil
 brink was in good humor enough 1 ." explain to me exactly the nature to his successful experiment. leI Tn the first place." he pointed o, Id the steamer we conveyed aero
 from Emden was towing a tar which contained 100000 gallons ,h oil. about six times as much as f, 1e oil capacity of a boat like U e1. whie le can carry 1s.0oo gallons, a stot De which gives her a radius of 80, ss miles.