The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-01
OliOdfoId Campaign of Submarine
Chasing Is RepIete With
Surprises.
TORPEDO FISH" IS FOOLER
,..rAstinq sidelight on Work Of Navy
n Fighting U-5oat Peril-Many i,
sn Encounter With a Table
Leo or a SWab Handle.

D;do1ightS on the thrills that come to
+ho men aboard the vessels of the Unit
~ states navy in the war zone
raro made public in a statement
',s,,pd bv the navy publicity bureau Of
90 West Thirty-ninth street.
"1t is stimulating from the maze of
convoy and submarine search work to
untongIe vivid threads of adventure"
tho statement said. For the first half
II q certain month a few points stand
ant for emphasis or INSTALLATION"
They are these:
"Enemy operations have been large
IL in the southern part of our area.
ceIm weather and the moon have IA
vorpd them. Merchant ships have as
sembed thickly at the rendezvous, and
the sight has been frequent Of one
4estrover-Often Of the older type
with four or five great vessels on her
hands before others assigned have join
ed the escort.
MANY rescues of crews have been
successfully made.
"In behind the net however, it is
less easy to borrow the lOOkOut's eyes,
SET for the pin thrust of the distant
periscope through the blue frets of the
ouiet, treacherOus ocean. Or to hear
IN the dark small hours the thrObbing
general quarters alarm, the blowers
hum in racing crescendo, and the
gun crewS-like Tweedledums and
Tweedledees in their slate-hued life
preservers-tear the covers from the
ammunition boxes. 1t is q tension to
bear down at 25 knots upon the lean
tramp that makes no response to the
fap-fap Of your searchlight blinker,
spelling out the challenge; to diStin-
guiSh whether the phoSphoreScent
streak that at night flashes across your
bow is made by a Hun torpedo or the
animal shippers have named the tor
pedo fish a blackf1sh or porpoise. Sur
vivors come mutely up the side, often
Lascars and Cingalese, muttering of
Allah and America indistinguishably.
Given cigarette makes they roll q
pill calmly stick it behind the ear,
and as the surgeon uncorks his iO6lo-
form in the Mushroom for gaShes made
by wreckage, some old gunner of the
reserve takes pneumonia from his
hours of exposure, and is put ashore
at say on a stretcher, and with his
hours of life numbered.
Two Ships in the Thick Of II.
The and the 2 have been in the
thick of such incidents. At Is
minutes past l o'clock on the morn
Ing of the 18th, the x was steaming
slnsly at Is knots, with quiet sea
and good visibility for that hour. The
captain was smoking q cigar on the
Orldge, wondering, he told me, whether
MIS- u. would ever have the pleas
ufe OF putting roses on her old mans
tomO up the Hudson. A heavy explo-
SION, without flash, shook the dark
ness about three miles over the port
OOW' whistle bleated three times,
anu the radio shack called up the tube
mat the steamer KiotO was torpedOed
~ miles southwest by west of Fastnet
Light.
The \ switched on her general
alarm for battle, changed her course
" zzo degrees true and plunged thith-
at 1ull speed. In two minutes she
maue out the staccatO sparks Of a
O"nAer' repeating over and over. Tor
peuoes !-TorpedoesH In five, she
'Hanged her course 10 degrees faster
east and at half-past one the flush
u uo OF a single stacker of about
Nv sV0O IONS loomed over the cocoa mat
Jug and thrust men about a gun.
one was now nearing the freight
u' DOW on, bit to port. Suddenly
b w.. VI the darkness to the right livid
s""i rushed straight and simmer
fnn q. ner under the sea. We put over
Ga 'ellt rudder. The torpedo passed
loss Se ABOARD across his bows, to the
n ' just ahead of the Kioto, and as
aoa luminous wake receded like muf-
sDo u Searchlight it seemed to break
bo~ u, upon the near horizon. ANY
vo" Sdld the captain afterward, 1T
sDa worm crossing the ocean to see
roa. 'eel That instant. 1t made those
'" "' seem lot nearer.
RIo4. JCA OSSdu CIRCLE
nph sO at high speeds, with alternate
ston'u ana left rudder. Her blinker
h o on, that she had been hit in
To ~. quarter abaft the engine room.
aftou 'ne lights ceased. Ten minutes
Of w. Two loaded Hfeboats emerged out
10 n Starboard darkness. They held
And en' Including the second officer
Iey Tall engineer, wounded in the
Safe nooh after two o'clock all were
aro,o ABOARD the X. She continued to
sinLina we steamer, which was slowly
aston ny the stern. Alarm of the dis
tols Naa been flashed to adjacent pa
stood The Y nosed into sight and
slpDo,a oy' likewise H. NJ. S. -, who
moro mat she had taken aboard 10
petnou survivors, and the Kioto's I'm
tho w., captain--he that returned to
~.. fro deSk' At 20 minutes past 8
Ing wrot n'er sank, leaving only float
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