New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-20
Dorothy T. Arnold, Truck
Driver in France, Sees
Missile Miss Ship
Teuton Havoc in Noyon
New York Girl Says Invaders
Fired and Pillaged
French City

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. ls.-Ad-
venture followed Miss Dorothy Treat
Arnold, a volunteer truck driver in
France for the last ten months, until
she was out of sight Of the Irish coast
on her return trip in an American
passenger ship which arrived to-day
from England.
A U-boats periscopes popped up
abeam so Unexpectedly that the warn,
ing cry of the lookout who sighted
them was drowned by the yell OF an
other who saw a torpedo cleaving the
water straight at the stern OF the
vessel.
Passengers clustered snxiously at
the rail, forgetting In their absorbing
interest in the scramble the life pre-,
servers that hung in their cabins and
the boat drills that are part OF every
transatlantic voyage.
Missile Just Misses Ship
Gun crews jumped alertly to their
rifles and a shot went skipping toward
the nautical bushwhacker at the mo-
ment that cries of relief told that the
torpedo had missed. !,
Officers of the steamship declared
that the underwater missile had passed
under the very overhsng of the stern
missing the rudder by not more than
twelve inches. Only the U-boat SKIP,
per's miscalculation of the liners speed
saved them, they said.
The naval gunners also had missed
their mark, but within a few minutes
the horoscopes which had vanished at
their shot again plunged through the
waves. this time only 200 yards astern,
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damage wrought by the torpedo. An
other shot, which also went wide, was
fred at them and the submarine SUD-
merged.
Miss Arnold is the daughter OF Ben
iamin Woolworth Arnold, OF Albany,
Ny. Clad in a uniform consisting OF
dark blue blouse and skirt, she drove
truck laden with hospital supplies for
the American Fund for French
Wounded. Part of the time she was in
Paris and part in the reclaimed dis
tricts of Northern France. In Paris
her working hours were from $3.50 q
m. to 6 p. m.
Saw Havoc Germans Wrought
ats different when you're sent out
of the city," she said, for then your
hours last till the work is done. For
six weeks | was in the recovered dis
trict near Noyon, and saw the wanton
destruction of the retreating Germans:
The city had been wasted by fire and
pillage, and in the countryside thou
sands of fruit trees had been cut on AT
the roots. The trees were not all de-
stroyed; the choppers laid down their
work in sections, or in long straight
lines"
Other passengers were Captain George
Stratford, First Officer Arthur b. Han
son. and other survivors of the Motano,
a Standard Oil tanker that was tor
pedoed on July 81 in the English Chan
mel, with the loss of twenty-four lives.
A British destroyer was conveying the
Motano, Hanson said.
at was Just before O'Clock at
night" he said, "and the destroyer had
gone some ways ahead when, without
warning, and without sighting any sub
marine, a torpedo exploded aft under
the engine room.
Ship Sank in Fifty Seconds
"Tbe after end of the ship was blown
I off. and all the men on duty below or
in their quarters, off watch, were in
/ stantly killed. There was not time
! to launch a lifeboat, as the ship sank
| in fifty seconds. We were all thrown
into the water, only few having time
/ to grab life preservers.
"Those unable to swim drowned be-
fore our eyes; there was no wreckage
to cling to. 1t was three-quarters OF
an hour before the destroyer got back
to pick us up. When the roll was
called only twenty-five out Of forty-six
responded"
Another passenger was W. n. Wells,
of Cleveland, an ambulance driver, who,
with nine others, rescued 500 wounded
in eighteen hours. He returned to enter
an officers training camp.