The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15

partments and is fitted, like our own undersea boat, with diving com. partment which communicates with all six reservoirs. As you saw. all I had to do was to make my exit by one trap, and enter the tank by an- other.
 There I found the two rubber tubes, by means of which the oil is transferred to the submarine. and the air which 1t replaces in our own res- ervoir passes into the tank, to allow the flow of the oil. That is simple, isn't it, Axel?"
 Quite simple, D far.'
 "So. We'll, the next step IS Tor someone to get into the divers dress once more and unscrew those tubes, which will recoil into the tank by means of springs when they have been, released After that. a lever must. be thrown down in the tank to let water into the empty compart- ment, or else we shall have our tank floating before al -lthe oil has been drawn from it. As that would never do, I nominate you, Axel, for the next turn in the divers dress.
 Yes, Steinbrink was in high good humor that day. and before we had returned, from the cruise, had con- f.ded, in me many. additional details lI10 SuIlhSu- OIl T CoCl fOS, and the effect they would have on the naval warfare of the future.
 with a tank like that. on the New lfound@and banks" he boasted, land lanother somewhere down ,. Florida way, I. could harry the whole coastal Ishipping of the Yankees for three
 months without ever turning for a home port. In five years, I tell you, we shall havef our undersea depots all over the world, in the quiet Pacific, and all along the coast line of Africa and Asia. They shall answer to the coa1ing stations of the damned Eng tlsnders.
 They rule the waves, do they? ;? We'll, we shall rule the world from underneath the waves. What is a iDreadnought, or a fleet of Dread
 noughts :? My little Uf21 will put them all down in one week of warfare.
 'tThe joke of the whole thing is'' land here Steinbrink stopped to laugh with a very: real enjoyment
 s'the joke of it is that we got the idea l for nothing, absolutely nothing. Ii came from one of the idiotic Yankees , a mad inventor named Simon Lake
 The whole of1.U 21, except the en- , zines, of course was built on inn . provements made at Krupp's on plans I lS SCAG llcIS 1OI dpPlOFd .'The undersea reservoir was de- : tailed in the same plans, and he had spent a lot of trouble in working out the best shape for towing by a suib- marine tug, the design of which he
 also kindly furnished. We are ex- perimenting with 1t at present. . "This man Lake only wanted f600,- 900 for his ideas, and that he was
 promised readily enough. I believe they made him think he had the Kaiser's own word for it. He is stil asking for the money, or for his plans back. As if there were any sucf : thing in Germany as a patent for Z g war invention. Bah!" t In this boastful strain he contin } ued until we had returned to Will f kelmshaven, when he rushed ashor, 3 to make his report to Admiral vo1 IUsedon, who was in command there g and was at that time the foremos @ supporter of the possibilities of tn 3 submarine in high office in the Ger @ man Navy.
 I may say, by way of an aside, tha z my experience in the diving compart ; ments was a great deal simpler ant 0 less unpleasant than had expected q Many times after that first expert q ment had the duty of connectinj
  t ervoirs of oil which in the next fev @ years were scattered all along th' @ British coast, and in the Mediterran
 can as well, to say nothing of Mexi : leo, and the islands off the Facifi d Coast of South America.
 The result of Steinbrink's enthusi satic report, was very notable on at the outset. Before another fort
 night had passed we were once nor afloat in U 21, and bound for tn spot, not twenty miles from the coas O of Scotland, where the first submar y inc oil reservoir was grounded. e This time we carried three passen
 gers, and they were. all very distin IS guished people indeed First an T. foremost, there was Prince Henry c e Prussia, the Kaisers only brother o The second was old Won Usedom him
 self, as rough and hearty an old sea 1T dog as have ever sailed with.
 The third was little more than 0 youth; a youth of overbearing man
 ners and apparently a highly-strun le nervous temperament, for he display of ed his uneasiness at the exigencfes (
 submarine navigation from the mo n ment we first submerged until tn r. time he entered the dinghy to retur d ashore again. ,- In him had no difficulty in recoe 1t nizing Prince Adalbert, the Kaiser
 third son, who had been destined b IT his Imperial father, though not b o- nature, for a career upon the sea. of Before this distinguished trio W t. repeated our experiment with th al same success. We had some difficu ly ty in dissuading Admiral Won Uss le com from donning the divers helm, ,p and going to see for himself, but fir
 ally he accepted the evidence ,avai ve able from within U 21, as we'll I r. might. Thus, late in October of 191 al was tested and proved the greate as of all Germany's naval secrets. k If it did not remain secret ft ,h very long, no one can be blamed e,
 cept Steinbrink himself. He was bul 1e bling over with his experiment, ar Il, ak that, it implied, and applied f, m permission to share it with the ele 1t, of the Kiel Naval Academy. He ol sh tafned his wish, and a numper k young naval officers were chosen ;" hear the paper he prepared on whz go must sooner or later be a matter
 the utmost importance to them C. their profession.
 sd The paper was never delivere ng From the time when Steinbring le 1k us just before Christmas in order