Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-18
STORES OF THE WAR
THRILLING EXPERIENCES
 ON A SUBMARINE.

Correspondence of The Associated
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 Death in varied forms menaced and played for many hours with the crew ed and finally sunk. after a gallant fight for life, off the coast of Holland, according to the story of her com mander. now for the first time told. His account gives a vivid picture of sn a:l-niglit struggle to save the sub marine and her company from the bat tering of the waves which hammered the little vessel upan the shoaI, of q fight with fire in her hold, agains. leaks that threatened to fill her with water, and to catch and secure a tor pedo thrown from its laShings with its war-head in place. menacins all with instant destruction.
 Freed from the shoal only to be confronted by an apparently hostile cruiser bent on their destruction, thu submarine commander tells how he was driven to the desperate resource of submerging in a water-logged craft and of the suspense of the critical mo Insr1ts when he discovered that his vessel was filling at the bottom of the ocean and of a fight back to the sur : face to face. the guns of the cruiser.
 Writing from a Dutch ir1ternment camp, the E-1T's commander. after telling of the strandjns of the sub marine and the vain struggle to float
 ''The antics of the. boat proved too much for the lashings of one of the but the nose, with the heavy war head in place. commenced threshing about in the boat. and would have done a lot Of damage if it had not been
 Large quantities of water had come down the coming tower and made an awful mess of things. It got at the electric light switchboards, fused the police lights, and started fire be- hind the switchboards, which had to be put out with one of the patent fire extinguisi1ers.- The resulting fumes of burnt rubber and fire extfnguisher made a most unpleasant coordination, with which we were bottled up for the rest of the night
 Tt was territble time, that period of waiting for the dawn. None of us thought the boat could last out, and take my hat off to the men tha. the amount of hammering she took My inspection showed that the rudder had gone, and the after compar tmert had large direct connection with the sea, probably through the hole where the r11dder had been. The buikhead of this o1lpartment had also been strained and was leaking. Both pro- peHer shafts had been slightly bent by the pumping, and beth main en- 8ines had got damp and were full of electric leaks; six of the big main tanks were holed, and the ship was leaking internally in about a doze<l places.
 lit looked pretty hopeless. so I start ed to destroy all confidential papers charts and instructions. the most SC : eFet, things being baked in the electric oven until brittle and then powdered up. Then I held d0uncila of war upon what we should do if we could get afIoat in the morning. had enough faith in the German spy system to expect that we had been observed as we were threshing about in the night and could expect trouble soon aftef daybreak.
 ssWhefi dawn came found we were barely 30 yards from shore at point about midway between the island of Texel. had . clear sea behind us with out shoals, and that the sea lad gone down a lot. We were leaking so badly that I felt that diving would hs ! risky experiment., only to be tried in the extremest case, with probably ID I chance against us- I was quite satssfied, however, that we could ge. back to Enaland if the weather heId good and we were not interfered with
 About n.45 we sighted q cruises coming along the coAst and steamffs 2 very fast. A rain squall was coming