The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-08

! daybreak like a lantern in lifebOat.
Neither Vessel Used Gunfire.
Neither submarine nor destroyer
| had used gunfire. The German was
not even sighted. Only two torpedoes
were known to have been fired-the
one which crossed the KS bow, and
the one which settled the Kioto.
"Only two days before the x had
had a better brush with a SUBJ and
may have got her; shippers put in
the claim on evidence as good. She
was steaming in the same area, I'M
der like conditions, when at ten min
utes past eight in the evening she
sighted pronounced wake. One could
even estimate the speed at which the
submarine had been submerged-about
eight knots.
'The x worked up to full speed,
turned with left rudder, and ran down
on the right hand side of the slick.
In six minutes she had reached its
head ready to drop depth charge;
four minutes to run to the end of the
wake, two more to allow for the
subs run beyond-and she tripped
the pump. With the charge, which
was set for 80 feet, was dropped cal
cium torch pot to mark the place. The
explosion audibly Jared the blowers,
and within three minutes bubbles
swirled to the surface. But in the 20
minutes that the x circled the vicinity,
hoping the injured enemy wpuld rise to
the surface, no further sign of damage
was revealed.
I.x Lob ,n6 hnr
convoy over to the - at two hours
before daylight, and returned to her
regular patrol. About five o'clock in
the morning she took under her wing
the steamer Pentwy, bound for Man
chester. At a quarter to eight Cap
tain Lyons sent a quartermaster aloft
to the main track to clear a fouled
commission pennant. Scarcely had
the quartermaster reached it when he
called down to the watch on the after
deckhouse, 'Periscope, two points
abaft the port beamr The thing was
1900 to 5000 yards from the -,
who was 400 yards ahead of the -,
one point on her port bow. The whole
body of the submarine was distinct to
the quartermaster though, oddly, in
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top lookout. The periscope seemed
headed westward, and she at once
started to submerge. Within 20 sec
onds, as the destroyer came to gen.
eral quarters, first one torpedo, Instant
ly followed by second, radiated from
the point where she had vanished.
Both were making surface runs, for
the subs coming tower hatch still |
must have been near the surface. They |
threw spray up fully 20 feet, clearly |
visible against the choppy sea. All |
hands on the bridge and decks saw |
them-as did the --, astern; for she |
swung sharply to starboard, present |
ing her tail to them. At the same mo-
ment the - sounded six blasts on |
her whistle, followed by two, to mean |
that the attack was being made to
port.
Miss by Small Margin.
"Both torpedoes missed the -,
but by the smallest margin. The -,
making high speed, swung with full
left rudder toward the submarine. At
five minutes past nine o'clock a third
torpedo was fired at the convoy, ap-
from another submarine,
about 200 yards ahead of the first. 1t
from the broad on the
beam, also making a surface
run at about the same range as the
first two, and missed
"But now the was in sight, some
four miles distant, ready to relieve
The Of her convoy. She, too,
made full Roadway on signal, Make all
speed to us; submarine in sight, and
searched in the vicinity of the -,
while the - followed the subs
Sticks. The first wake tended east,
out in ten minutes lost itself among
he whftecaps. The second and plain
sr one led westward irregularly, as if
the sub had been zigzagging. A
lepth charge was dropped at its end,
,ut a half hours search found proof
If nothing. The - really had saved
herself by quick and efficient hand
ing.
"The -'s adventure with the
steamship Tarquah cannot be told I'M
il that flivver comes into port. The
-, - and - had a hand in
t and the frst's account of the sink
ng of the Obuasi-where she arrived
Ong after the deed-ShOwS the defect
We functioning and poor marksman-
hip of German torpedoes. The -
eports to the same effect. At half
asst ten o'clock on the morning of
he 18th she picked up in her sea area
wo boats and % survivors of the
Ireek steamship Charilaos Tricoupis.
'wo hours before, two torpedoes had
cen fired at her, at an interval of
5 minutes. The first struck the star
GARD quarter, between rudder and
ropeller, and, failing to detonate, did
tile damage; but the crew abandoned
hip. The second hit the starboard
de amidship, blowing up the Greek
. that she sank in five minutes. Be-
ween the two shots the submarine