The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15

zines which make the U-Doat the teT- TOT of the seas, had more behind It than I was aware at the time.
 The engines of his invention, waicn consume heavy oil of any kind, and
 bid fair when war Is over, to revolu- tionize shipbuilding, were in use on all sorts of merchant vessels even at
 the time when I had my. conversation with Steinbrink. But the engines In use on the super-submarine were an astonishing advance upon the Diesel engine known to commercial snip
 ping.
 Diesel himself, in his workshop at Munich, was better seized of the pos abilities of his inventions than any other living man, and 1abored 1nces-
 sanity at developing them. He had a commercial packer, too, who formed companies in Great Bri- tain and America for exploiting the Diesel engine.
 Unlike the American, Simeon Lake, whose submarine inventions were stolen from him by the German gov
 ernment, he had been well paid for
 his new and improved engines. But
 still he needed more ~enoney. =. | In October, 1913, Dr. Diesel left
 Munich with the intention of crossing | to England. He. announced that his |
 the British company which was to
 handle his inventions; and it is true that a meeting of that concern was
 to be held upon his arrival in Eng land.
 1 On October he reached Antwerp, where he embarked on board the
 steamer Dresden, bound for Harwich. l When the Dresden reached the Bri- i tish. port, Dr. Diesel was not to be ! found. He had disappeared during the l night; and it was given out that his l affairs were in such disorder that he had committed suicide, despairing of ever getting them straight again.
 encountered Commander Stein brink not many days after the disap- pearance of Dr. Diesel was made pub
 lie, and ventured to comment upon the mystery which surrounded his
 end. He smiled his grim Prussian smile, and looked at me from under
 lowered eyebrows. II "You were right, Axel," he said
 shortly, when you suggested that the secret of our submarine engines might not be safe with its inventor; and the German government was right in keeping a close watch upon the traitor Diesel.
 He met the end he deserved; he l was executed when on his way to sell l to the damned British an improve ment on the engines we have tested :, stared sat him in open dismay. "But I thought he committed sui. eide" I managed to stammer. T, t1 ) is said that his affairs were in sucf
 disorder that he was unable to face 7 his creditors and packers in. Eng l land.''
 l Perhaps his affairs were in {
 T ha 6nr-
 "Of what use are the. Deutsche Bank = and on Gwinner, Helferrich, and tn e rest of them if they cannot wreck thu : finance of an adventurer who is no ,, content with the ample rewards O r his grateful country. It is rrue,. nev s ertheless, that he had plans in. hi l possession for much more powerful engine than any, he had before de
 vised; they are now in the hands o : the engineers at Krupp's who pro @ nounce them wonderful"
 e tion with my hands of pushing 9 maj e overheard from a steamer
 Steinbrink nodded complacently.l s 'It is what happens to people wh e have the will to betray the secrets o h our Fatherland,'' he said, with a kee . glance at me- < H-x LIE r. "Lshave told you of this, Axel, be !. cause 1t is an incident you may d
 tvaH to bear in mind if ever yuor de n ssre to. talk seems likely to get tn j. better of you. I do not think it vii @ however
 3, me,
 e pondered long upon his cu1
 warning; for it was true that withou r any desire to do so, I had become ac $ quainted with some preparations tha Il were strange indeed, considering tf1a l. Germany was at peace with the res d of the world, and her Emperor lost n e opportunity of proclaiming his ,desir e to keep that peace intact.
 e Some months before, quite a yea d before the war really broke out a made my first acquaintance with tn 1T submarine tug. This vessel, built wit n enormously powerful electric motor
 carried only the smallest of crew III and had remarkably little air spac el considering the circumstance that ii ,e journeys were made submerged man S. fathoms deep. J. The crew besides myself and Steir l. brink. who navigated her, were COT Il victs who had been sentenced to in ss prisonment for life. They could te as no secrets, except to one another; fe st they were doomed never again le speak 10 Tree men, Germany emp1Oy ,r many of these men on. secret work rs connection with her navy. Il, Steinbrink had a map of the Br .y tish Isles on which were marked a
 the great ports and the shallow banl v- near them,s where a submarine -coul 1- lie in safety, and where a submarir IS oil store could be laid without fear n- disturbahce.>I A bottom of thick mt In is a great protection for such a sul n marine depot.
 ye To such places we were engaged 1e towing the fish shape oil tanks I ha,
 previously described, and anchorir T. them securely in places where the a. could. be available for replenishir b. the oil supplies of cruising Germs CT submarines when the need arose.
 It is too slow and too precarious t. he. complained, nearly beside himsel p, with anger and anxiety. ''The D; ne will come upon ns and we shall n
 be ready. for it. We. must think of something else"
 h. As a matter of fact the placing of the submarine tanks rohld not; m effected according to plan. Not ii he teen per cent of the places whit ne Steinbrink had marked upon his ma of as sites for. one of these depots we
 ever. supplied with them. :. So maj