The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-13

the meantime we may win the war on the land. But when the time comes, if we are not given the peace we want. we shall let loose the sub- marine upon all the ships on the sea. No flag will be powerful enough to protect cargo-carrier in those days.
 And we shall sink nearly all the merchant ships in the world; and we shall starve England into peace on our own terms. Then from the Ger man yards, where they are rebuild ing, we shall bring out the fine new liners we are building, and the car rying trade of the world shall be in our hands.
 America may go to war when we start the real blockade of England, but it will be too late. We shall win the war before the Yankees can strike a blow against us. You shall | see all this happen in a year or so, fAxel; and I have begun it. I struck , the first blow when sank the Lusi-
 tania.
 Pirates Awful Strain So boasted Commander steinbrink. | | of the U-21. He went no more to
 sea in the U-boats but remained at | l J
 men for special submarine service. |
 He chose for his purpose all men
 used to gas engines and electric mo- tors, and he has often told me that Of such me he can make capable undersea sailors in two months, or ten weeks at the outside.l " Even at this rate of speed, which my own experience. leads me to doubt, the training of efficient crews I cannot be said to keep pace with the building of standard submarines in Germany. If sufficient submarines are destroyed, the shortage of capa- ble men, and the loss of nerve inflict- ed on the survivors is going to be
 an effective check to the, activities of the German urfdersea boats. !, The super submarines, with their | cruising radius of seven thousand miles, stay away from their base for
 thirty-five days on the average Dur : ing the whole of that time there is practically no rest for the crews. Mo- body who has not; experienced it can form any idea of the protracted 5 strain of long undersea cruise. } In the first place, the air is bad : from the beginning. It is moist; it t is charged with the fumes of oil and
 the gas of the motor batteries It . makes you sleepy, but the life is so : strenuous that no one can be allow l ed to sleep. There is one continued s series of alarms, and one walks ] about. or lies down, longing to sleep, : but unable just to pass out of con-
 scious life.
 Half of the men in a submarine.
 at least. are sea-sick all the time
 Even the big ones roll horribly, both : on the surface and when submerged; {; {. and they pitch as we'll. Men who
 could not be made sick in the rough . est sea when navigating the surface in an ordinary warship are contin- : ually sick in a submarine.
 Submerged for 30 Hours d One lies down to rest in the dirty l. old clothes in which all submarine e crews are dressed. It is not wise @ even to kick off your boots; an alarm g may come at any moment. The place d drips with the moisture given of ,e from the breath of twenty men d though it is strictly forbidden to take
 anything damp inside the boat One IS eats as one can;N anything that car g. be called food is good enough for z B. submarine.
 rs l have known men return from 1- cruise, after an experience of bein. at submerged for eighty hours at ,e stretch. They were eight weeks il 'e recovering from that experience
 and probably a whole lifetime with 70 out recovering from the nausea tha k the very thought of again cruising il b. an undersea boat called up in thei 1T. souls.
 of When the craft is navigating ol le the surface the nuisance of intoler
 able noise is added. The Diesel en on zines of the super-submarine mak p a. chatter and roar like that of an ex e. press train and an aeroplane engin rs on a gigantic scale, and all rolled in 1g to one.
 y, The batteries which supply tn e. electricity for the motors which driv
 the ship when submerged are on nd of the nuisances of the work. The nd are soon exhausted; and the troubl II. of recharging them is immens, Their fumes add to the misery of ex O. istence.
 ys Doubtless some better way of pro mt polling submerged undersea bos b. will yet be discovered; at present tn
 electric motor is, next to the huna of equation, the chief weakness of tn nk German submarine.
 'is German Secrets =. With all its fmperfections, how
 ever, the German submarine is veal
 ahead of that owned by any othe
 power up to the present. No engir
 comparable to the Diesels has y, 'ur been made, and the new Diesels al he developing enormous power, and r Ter faults. It is only the fact that the gre require air which makes the mott
 a instalments for submerged navig; he tion sad necessity.
 nd Then the apparatus for purifyir she the air, invented by Dreager, ar asy based on the use of potash, is witt nd out any peer. It is 8 German secre lily and one of these machines is install
 ed in every chamber of the up- ]. I date U-boat.
 the The new super submarines ha7 ey. also clever device for telescopi1 , a the periscoper, which no other nay n.y. as far as I know, has yet been ab l to copy. The advantage given eat the device is enormous, since, in a 3 I preaching a victim, it is only nece ate sary for the boat to elevate its pei 2 a scope now and again, and that on
 for second or two. Thus the te pod tale periscope wave is eliminate he of