The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-13

Int 1917, by the International News prov. Then she rejoined the line of | battle again, and without a shot be- ing fired. or any fuss or furry, the i Grand Fleet steamed majestically on- wards. t
 So perished Won weddigen. stein brink's foremost rival, in submarine management. IiSitania Horror
 Many months passed by and the submarine blockade of the British Islands was proclaimed.
 Now they shall see what under sea power really means" said Otto Schultze, Steinbrink's junior officer to me in the course of a visit he paid me.
 It was Steinbrink himself: fresh from his successful attack upon the Lusitania, and the thousand harmless citizens of the world who travelled as passengers on the big Cunard 'lin- i CT, who told me how the blockade had failed, and why the outrage up- on humanity he had perpetrated be- came necessary.
 | Herr Gott, would not go through it Again for all the orders of the
 German Empire!"
 1 What do you thing of the old IU-21 now, Axel?" he asked, bursting
 in upon me one day when the world
 was ringing with the horrors of the attack upon the Lusitania. "You
 know that it was she that sank the
 Lusitania, and that the Emperor has conferred upon me the Order pour le
 Merite? Herr Gott, Axel, I would not go through it again for all the orders of the German Empire!" I He was white, and wore a curious I strained look. I had never noticed about him before; also he talked lquickly and excitedly, which was far from his old custom. I took him into my private room, and opened a
 bottle of Rhine wine, his favorite
 drink.
 , Over it he talked, as one old sea :, comrade to another, telling me of the ) great and awful adventure he had experienced, an adventure in which } he had played the principal part, "You know the submarine cam. paign has been failure,.' he began
 thanks to the Herr Doctor Wilson, o1 } America, who is worse than an oper l enemy to the Fatherland. He dares } us to send to the bottom one single
 American citizen, whether on an en emy boat or a, neutral. We went ou : to our work with our hands tied. 3 '.In the end Tirpitz and the Kai ser saw that the President was ren ] dering all our U-boats useless; ant
 Bernstorff reported that his threat
 of war were all bluff since he hat v not the country behind him in break d ing the peace with Germany. |, To Test America
 = "Every boat that crossed the At
 ilantic carried some American as safe n guard, and we were warned agains F sinking one ship after another, fo r fear of provoking the. neutrol coun d tries against us. have seen twe1v -e go by in three days, and not been al g lowed to launch a torpedo against on 't of them.
 n '.At the last Emperor determine g to call his bluff, and to test the sen s timent of the United States in tn
 most drastic fashion that could b LeI devised. It was decided to sink a bi It ship with passengers on board; an IS since a big ship was needed we chos 'd1 the very biggest. It was easier, an m more effective in the long run. T.. ''That was why the Lusitania ws i'd selected. The Embassy in Washing W ton did it's part cleverly and effective sy ly. They warned all the passenger to who had booked by the boat, by ae
 vertisement, and by telegram, thu V they were incurring the most exertn sd danger, since the vessel would CT sunk.
 e7l Also they placed on board tv
 good men to throw out signals, mai ld ing it certain that the waiting sul IT. marine could not miss the big line ss. Both of them died at the post
 duty; they were good citizens of u lis Fatherland.
 is we went out from Heligoland |
 the U-21 in plenty of time, and sli a, ped through the silly English min ls- field by the path that our sweepe tn kept clear. We went north a1o1 ne the Danish coast, and did not .worr
 you may, be sure, about the thre re mile limit.
 nd Around the north of Scotland al d. then south to the south of Irela1 ais was matter of 1,4O0 miles in a
 an easy five days run.
 'rt q had made an early start to pr la- were in position nearly three da ng ahead of time, and as I did not wa nd any warnings to be flying I kept su lar merged.
 so we were dead in the stream ln- ocean traffic, and could have SUI
 half a dozen boats before the |
 prize came along. I kept out, of tn. on way instead, and they joyfully I ful ported on arrival in port that on submarines were to be seen. tt. All Ocean Stirred At last, in the early morning, 0
 whale was signalled. I rose to t 's surface. and had a good look at | 'D as she came on in the distance. The was no other ship in sight, not feather of smoke anywhere on
 horizon. submerged again, a ~ steered a course to spot where S 'pe must pass broadsideon, within e. M torpedo range T. rose again, a watched her steaming majestica .n,S to her doom. an ."It was a terrible business, Axe1
 had her full in the centre of
 periscope and my hand on the k
 I could not miss; I saw her there ick doomed vessel. I had to nerve n oth seH to launch the torpedo; then the tracked it in its course to the gr -29 liner. As soon as I saw it strike
 at launched another; 1t was too i did now for anything but ito make ace clean job of it.
 for 'The work was done, and I stt
 by and watched the whole awful vas oueI God in Heaven when f