New Britain herald., 1917-12-18
IN LONDON DURING
 GERMAN AIR RAIDS
Leland HOar of Arch Street Back
 From War. Zone
SAW CAPTURED U-BOAT
German Jlnacrsens Sailors Mutiny, Kill Con,naander and Surrender for want Of Food-American Soldiers Too Daring. Allies Say.

want or F,ood-American Soldiers
 Too Daring, Allies Say.
 Leland Hoard, son of MT. and Mrs. Henry Hoar. of Arch street, enlisted in the U. s. Naval Reserve, is home on 24-hour furl6ugh after having just returned to- the United States from q trip to France and England durin9 which time he saW many in- terestinR things, among which were . captured German submarine and q German aerial raid on the city of London.
 Sees Captured U-Boat,
 Sailor Hoar sailed from New York on October 31 on the Mount Vernon. formerly the Crown Prinxessin Cecile. : -Arrivlng at . French port. he was stranafeTred to his own ship, the U.SS> 8. Agemcmnon, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm II. While in France he noted many interesting things. both as regards the customs of the people and tho effect of the war. He states that indications everywhere pointed to the fact that until the advent of the United States intn the war the French people were disco c~araged and all but defeated; but the Fival of American troops and supplied have given them i. now life. There is evidently plen- tiful supply of food in France. the young sailor found, but. he said. the coal supply Ia very low. As an illus traitor Of the food condition, he ex- plAiQed that he entered . restaurant in certain French city and pur- chated meal consisting of ham and oggn. cpffee and pic for 3e centss .-kan nn tavn American deAtroyer a French lWarship; bring q captur sla German aub- m rine Into port. Thu n1aaaive under eeas craft measured between 800 and 100 feet in length, he states, and was painted . light gray. That 1t was the verv late1t design in the Kaiaer's sub mersablos was shown by the new type 0f e61shR tower In6tead of opening up HlFn hatchway,: the coning tower. Which Wag somewhat conical in fnxt1i. had | door on tho side which 1p Fl spnr1n1 1tting tho crew to walk rief,t out ossi to Ahe deck eG they WSffd from shny 6fdinnrN deer.
 The story related of the capture of tlatw German sea raider was interest lhni !. Apparently the German captain had eather been economizing too much on food. or else his larders wuro G4npty, for the crew had mu- tinietl. murdered the commander heaNed his body overheard. and then came to the surface and hoisted the white flag of surrendAr. The DIE nl,i3er.sea craft was immediately taken in charge by American ana French boats and towed into port. Since that time the French have been InspectinR the boat with interest, but d,,e to their ignorance a to how 1t la operated they had not essayed to uubrnerRe by the time Sailor Hear left In London Air Raid.
 Fn route to the United aiates the local boy stopped in Mno1And and with some of his mates visited Lon- don. England. They arrived in Lon don on December 6 and went to chatham Square and thence to the Y. M. c. A. situated nearby. At 5 a. m. on December they were awakened from their sleep by guard pounding on . biz tin pan and giving : warning that an aerial raid was about 10 take place. Word of the impending raid had been flashed ahead from Dover and Kent. All in the vicinity were hustled across the street to the $ waldorf Hotel. The wonaen and chil- dren were given quarters In the cel- lar and the rest stood about the hotel lobby. waiting anxiously for the raid. Tn the meantime every light In the city of London had bean extink kuished and the entire city was in total dark neGS.
 The method of the air raiders was ai1nplo There were 30 planes in tho raid and Is went in advance to draw Inc fire of the anti-aircraft gunn. while we'll to the rear was Q squadron pf 16 more planes carrying bombs < As the Whirr of the airplane motors M hAcame dietinglishable above the in. lense quietude of the city the English anti-aircraft guns opened Ire and dur, Ina the entire raid the crash of thu
 artillery. the dull. boom of the aeria
 hornbs and the steady hum of thu
 motors away up in the air made ter
 rlnc din. The raid wAs not . particu ! iSS1y serious one as only ono building -,aa demolished. Eight people wer' ktlled and II injured. An oxanlna' Non of the bombs used showed. ac
 rording to the English newspapers
 that an interior grade of metal va
 used. accounting for the fact Una
 many failed to, explode. This va
 taken by the British to indicate tna
 the Germans are hard pressed TO
 metals On the way to the depot tn following morning Sailor Hoar saw al
 nnexploded bomb in the street, care
 fully guarded, by London Doopy.
 It appeared like a huge ron pal
 about the size of an old fash1one
 rubber football. with length O
 chain attached Tho bomb wa
 painted black with red lettering, tn @.lA rch street youth statNN. Subsequent
 iys he learned that during the Eal ndd fell in the suburbs. Each ma < r}ine carried tirec 7'er and all wer