The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-10-30

comrades only eight were left on the
surface. The ship was split clean in
two. 80 that the bow and stern d. ublcd
toward zach other like n jaeknife. and
sank like q rock. When no warning
is given. therefore. %torpcdoing Is tan-
tamount to cold-bloodcd murder.
You may say that the submarine
dare not give warning, for feer Il
might be fired upon; but In many
cases the vessels have neither gun nor
wireless and the weather conditions are
such that the submarine can observe
this perfectly well. Yet II deliberate
ly chooses the stroke IN silence. like
a dagger in the back. why. even a
rattlcsnake signals before it strikes.
Boiler Explosions Worse Than
Shrapnci.
a feature OF these Meaningless tor
pedoinRs are the boiler explosions
which occur In one case out Of two ami
begct horrors worse than shrapnel. I
saw a magnificent Scotch chife en-
gineer from the Salmo frightfully
scnlded about the head and torso. So
that he died In o at the Queens
town hospital. Time after time ! lis
tened to those engineroom stories ~
the most sickenlng character. where
fine men. often Americans, were blown
into ribbons or boiled to death In live
steam.
The Lucillinc carrying naptha. was
struck without warning at : a. IN
ana her crew stumbled on deck into
dazzling moonlight only To- be over
come By the naptha fumes. so that
fourteen Of them persisted miserably
Another ship. a horse transport was
torpcdocd four times In succession.
the t~urpedoes exploding among the
hfebuats which were being manned
Gould u thing he imagined more un-
manly aud mhuranH
The Germans may say sneeringly
That "aI is no Ike cricket. but ! re-
tort that the German war is conducted
In cynical contempt OF even tho loves,
standards Of human beings.
Few Escape Smelling Survive
fNTosurc ~ sea.
Now, when the submarine has
wrought It's dastardly work, where
does II leave such victims as survive
the Smelling and the founderias Toss
ed 10 tiny boats at the mercy Of the
most cruel ocean In the world; Two,
three and even four hundred males
out upon the boundloss wastes 81
water ! ask YOU 20 think back to
your last ocean voyage and see again
the bleak EXPENSES OF soulless crcsts.
Remember the winds and waves rag.
ing like madmcn against the great
steamer that bore you. and then pic
ture yourself fighting them for life IN
a little cockleshcll. hundreds of miles
from land.
just what numbers Of hardy sea-
men perish 'ni.erably when deserted
by the iron sharks we have no means
81 knowing: but We know they are
large from the scores NJ instances IN
which only one or two boats reach
land "a tell how thcS separated from
comrades who are never heard from.
The Tuwcrgate was sunk in a roar
ing tempest goo miles off the B%lasquet
| Islands. west uf ireland. in March, and
I saw the single boa TOAD ~ survivors
five days later az Limerick. Emaci
atcd. hollow checked, ~unshaven. their
( clothing hanging disheVcled about
thor. they told In hoarse whispers 81
he others who had quit the wreck
with them and who were by that time
~rerclIct corpses halfway TO the ocean
bed. They themselves had struggled
/ iou-hcartcdly Tor three days u
inights against The gale. and ON the
fourth DAY. when iu sight ~ land, had
fallen, spcn, and hopeless in their boat
! trusting to hat Providence which did
u fact. eventually rescue them
british NAVY Wins Honor III
Brave ~I,csCucs.
\ case which stands out IN my
memory was that OF h Marina 3
horse transport attacked IN a NoN'ln'
Der hurricane. Two boats Hdcn WIN
American muletecrs fought the Whu
clements for ,hirty-s'N hours Nt'''
uightfall on the second u"N INV
found Themselves driving h"tore u
howliug wind into the rock DAY i
Ballinskclligs, the most nnt"r'"u7'y
cruel OF the Irish nords' Th'lr ms
red flares stroNc 10 pierce the sl1nurl',
at =" o'clock Ih'll ho"'n
sealed. But az II O'Clock " p'u,N,
tittlc British admiihltN tuI' VIM"
had been searching through 'n' S,",,.,
uo~cd It's way between thelh ana w."
raging surt not % quarter OF q h"' 'l'
and liftcd the eNNIust'n Nu'uE "''
nov weak ~ ntants OUT o' NV VIZ
Laws of an tWful dtdlh