The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-21
FORCES SUBS TO
STAY UNDER SEA
Aerial Forces Part in Keeping
Ocean Lanes Open Is
Described.
NAVAL AIRPLANES ON JOB
U-Boats Are Practically Helpless as
Long as They Are Forced to Stay
Under Water - WhaIeback
Carries SO Moguls.

American Naval Base, France
Hydroairplanes constantly watch and
guard this great American port and
the American shipping approaching or
entering 1t to prevent attack by sub
marines. One of the planes lay on
the water ready TO start seward as
the Associated Press correspondent WIS.,
tied the harbor. Ii looked very light
and filmy for this desperate work and
its gray body gave II the appearance
of a giant moth settled on the wa
ter.
Overhead, one thousand feet up,
swung a huge lung shaped balloon,
from the basket of which a naval Off
Ger and a sailor peered through marine
glasses.
They are on the lookout for a sub
marine," said the escort. "Their chief
purpose is to report the whereabouts of
a submarine, and the destroyers then
do the rest in forcing it under water.
Even IL submarines are off this port,
they are practically helpless, il we can
keep them under water. 1t is only
when they come to the surface that
they can launch their torpedoes with
full effect. Torpedoes fired when the
craft is under water may lack direc-
ton to make them dangerous. SO that,
after all, the problem for the destroy
ers is to keep the submarines under
water las well as to destroy them"
Big Whalepack Carries SO MoguIs.
On shore scores of hydroairplanes
there were sheds for balloons.
A big whaleback from the great
lakes was Off to port and to starboard
was a massive f~reighter.
THAT Is a strange ship" said the
escort. "You will note she has no
upper deck or cabins. The whole deck
rolls back, like the roof of an openair
theater, and the deck becomes an enor'
nous open hatch. 1t is like a huge
open bowl, with 40 obstruction in
lifting out the freight"
The freight In this Ease was as Gu.
rious as the rolling deck, for it con
sisted of thirty-three enormous Mogu
locomotives, all set up and ready t.
move, and with their tenders coupled
With the deck rolled back, locomotives
and tenders were picked up by gian'
cranes and swung around to TIL
nearby quay. Very oon these SANE
locomotives, just out of the bowels o
a ship, had steam up and were puffinl
off toward the front.
'The United States ship Garcia" ;
craft that never went to sea and neve'
will, a vessel with stone walls, I'm
derground dungeons, twenty miles o
tunnel and a vast bulk Of masonr!
anchored to mother earth, Is one o
the sights at this port.
Ancient Chateau a United States Ship
1t is a massive castle standing at tn,
waters edge that bears this strang'
name. 1t is an ancient chateau, bull
600 years ago, in the thirteenth cen
fury, and one Of the marvels of Gothi
architectural construction. 1t is use'
now as the United States naval bar
racks, and being put to naval uses, i
was given a naval christening as tn
u. s. s. Garcia. 1t is no nickname
but is the accepted title known TO al
officers and men.
Being christened as a United State
ship even the battlements have becom
decks. When down In the old dungeon
a sailor guided me upward by saying
This way, sir, to the main deck"
And we climbed up the "hatchway
Of %crumbling stone to the main "deck,
of Gothic masonry twelve feet thick.
The way this castle came to b
named as a United States warship wa
this: The United States Garcia is
reality a small steam yacht. used dul
ing the Spanish war. 1t was rattle
out Of date and was tied up to tn
castle wall. Here 1t became very us'
full In making out acquisitions for SUI
plies needed in the castle. To make
reQuisition for a castle would seer
quite irregular. And 70 everythln
was requisitioned for the Unite
States ship Garcia, and in that wa
the castle got its equipment withou
disturbing any formalities.
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