The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-09-11
SUBMARINES RAID
IRISH FISHERMEN
Blow Up Their Boats in Waters
Around the Emerald
Isle.
THREATEN COAST VILLAGES
To Remark, 1--WE Thought You Liked
the Irish" They Retort, "Ah, You
Don't Know Us Veto
Cut Food Supply.

Skibbereen, County Cork.-German
submarines have been actively en-.
gagged In the destruction of the Irish
fishing fleets in the waters around
these coasts. OF course IL Is impossi-
BILE to designate here the exact local.
tiles where or the dates when the Prus-
sian pirates did their cowardly work.
But their purpose Is plain to all the
world-to cut off part Of Ireland's and
England's food supply, for mackersl
teen in these waters.
The submarines were busy many
miles outside from Kenmare In Kerry
to Howth on Dublin bay. Many fish,
ing craft are at the bottom Of the sea,
and the men who owned them and the
fishermen who worked on them are
ruined financially.
Affixed Bombs on Boats.
On certain evening about seven
o'clock the fishing fleet put out from
Baltimore, on Baltimore bay, near
Skibbereen. The first numbered about
eighty boats of all classes and EN-.
braced several boats from ArklOw,
the feet set out German U-boat Of
the latest pattern. about 300 feet in
length, appeared. The submarine did
not waste torpedoes or shells on the
defenseless fishing boats; the crew
simply placed BOMBS on 10 of them
and so destroyed them.
Only three minutes were allowed
the hapless fishermen to get into their
small boats; then all their belongings,
which in many cases included con.
siderable sums OF money, were sent to
the bottom. Had 1t not been for the
appearance of British patrol, which
caused the submarine to submerge at
once, IL Is certain that all the fleet
would have been destroyed. Those
that escaped returned to port with an
abundance Of fish. but are not ventur.
ing out again, so that in one night
the fishing fleet of Baltimore has beer
put out of action by the Germans
which means n loss of many thousands
Of pounds to the poor fishermen and
their families. Among the fishing
boats sunk were two fine motorboats
belonging to the Baltimore Piscatorial
schools, motorboat the property Of
John Beamish, Skibbereen. and two
motorboats owned by Mr.. Cottrell
Baltimore, worth several hundred
pounds each.
The pirates did not spare even tho
smallest craft, for they bombed two
open boats. With great hammer
they smashed to bits the engine of a
little boat belonging to John Dono-
van of Castletownshend and left 1t to
drift about
No lives were lost, but for that the
Huns deserve no thanks, for they re-
fused the fishermen permission to take
oars into their punts.
One Cape Clear man, resenting this
refusal, ventured to remark to the cap
tain Of the submarine:
81 thought yc Germans would do
nothing to the Irish-that ye liked
usf"
"Ah, my dear fellow, you don't know
the Germans yet" was the command
er's'curt reply.
The Germans intimated that they
had sunk all the Kinsale fishing boats
as they had come along to Baltimore,
and that Off Dunmore they had de-
stroyed the Waterford fishing fleet.
They made no secret OF the fact. but
on the contrary boosted about It and
declared that they would have every
Irish fishing boat at the bottom of
the sea before u month. Furthermore
one OF the submarine crew said they
intended Smelling villages on this
coast shortly.
ats All Up Now"
: CONSERVATION and despair have
seized our unfortunate fsherfolk.
at Is all up now, sir" said Balti-
more skipper, "when they are sinking
our fishing boats" When l told him
! would expose the Huns deviltry he
joyously exclaimed:
"Oh, then, do, sir! Tell all America
the Germans are the worst savages
on earth, and that this is their most
cowo-dly blow yet, and that we hope
and trust that with the aid of our kith
and kin over there the archtlends will
soon be swept from the face Of the
earth"