Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-23

Again I dreamed of Minna. II
was the same dream as before. And
this time 1 am able to recall both
dreams. I saw Minna in the COM
pany of her father and Sven. Mrs.
Larsen, Minna's mother, appeared to
be at great distance an was beck
oning Minna to come TO her. Minna's S
arms were outstretched toward me.
But when I started to go to her a
terrific explosion took place, and
after the smoke of it had cleared
away Minna was standing beside
her mother and was waiting kisses
to me and her father and Sven.
IF there is any meaning at all to
the dream" said Fritz when l told
him about it, lit is that you will
soon meet Fraulein Minna."
Notwithstanding the reassuring
nature of his Interpretation of my
dreams they have left profoundly
disqu.eting effect upon me. I can
not get rid of the feeling that they
either portend a disaster of sSne
sort to Minna or have reference to
one that has already occurred.
We had a lazy day of it. Not n
single scrap, not even the sight OF
4 vessel. 1t would have been a most
ipsuffcrGbly dull day for me if Fritz
had not made it pleasant. and even
memorable, by detailing to me his
amazingly interesting theory about
dreams and kindred subjects.
1916 ADril
We sank another English steam
ship this afternoon and have kept
as prisoner her commander. He
had made the initial attack without
waiting for any demonstration from
us. / can hardly blame the man
for trving to sink a craft which he
must have known would do its ut
most to sink his vessel If it got the
chance. But, whatever my personal
feeling may be, I have no right to
suspend the regulation which will
probably cost this poor Britisher his
life when 1 turn him over to the
authorities at home. I feel doubly
sorry for him, as he has shown him
self to be as fine a gentleman as I
ever met anywhere. I am rapidly
becoming n nervous wreck, less on
account of the constant fighting than
of the necessity of doing things
which are so diametrically opposed
to what 1 consider fair and Just and
right.
The fight with the Englishman
was one of the most tensely excit-
ing we have had. We saw the yes
sci when she was five miles away.
Evidently she did not perceive us
until she had come to within a mile
Then she swung around-made as if
to escape and began firing. Half a
dozen shells were discharged, all
falling short or striking the water
on the other side of us. They had
two rapid fire guns of good calibre
and the range was close enough to
have put us out of commission or
sink us with a well-directed shot
Fortunately the only damage we re-
ceived was from one shell. which
glanced off our deck aft. leaving an
ugly dent, but not of a serious
nature.
Halbert's craftsmanship made
short work of the enemy. The first
shot as nearly always, brought the
wireless arrangement to the deck
The second one crashed through the
SIDE of the vessel and destroyed her
machinery.
Never before had any merchant
man attack by us fought so per-
tinaciously after being so COM
pletely crippled. A third she'll sent
the water pouring through a gap on
the water line amidships. The
reason Halbert always seeks this
vital spot is to cause a list which
will make the guns aboard the
stricken vessel imperative. 1t was
only when the list became so pro-
nounced that the guns could no