El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-26

ONION Eng March 26.-It would
be wrong and utterly invidious
l. TO suggest that those British
sailormen who 90 down t. the sea in
Submarines are any Drawer than those
who work In surface ships. but to say
that these men get their fun whack-
and something more-of thrills is
strictly true-
Take, for instance, the submarine
which rose al the very edge Of
fine field with The obvious intention
ul warning e h1meWard bound tramp
lteamer CT the proximity OF danger
culF 10 De tlred upon Immediately by
the rEamu's Eun-rhe first she'll from
which plunged into the sea alongside
her and smothered her lieutenant in
spray a second shell Whistled past
and took Off the 1ieuterant-s cap.
while q third wrenched the hastily
waved white ensign flat from his
hlud-the skipper Of the tramp had
seen just Is his gun layer pressed the
trlEgeE-
The experience was hardly calcu-
lated 20 arouse human kindness IN
the submarine commanders breast
yet IN plain view on the surface he
crlised over 20 the now stopped
tramp. told her OF her Danger and
afterwards INDUCED in a furious dia-
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the ramps ancestry.
4 Narrow shave.
A thrill Of quite a different kind
was experienced in certain boat
working in the shallow waters of the
Belgian coast-among the mine fields
ana ether defences set Up by the Hun I
AZ times she found uersei1 IN deep i
water, at others in shallow. and al all /
times ana seasons there were passing 4
Hun crafr. only too eager TO END her
ven ruresome existence On one, oc-
rralou she was compelled 10 rise /
swiftly 10 avoid running her nose into 4
a mudhanE. and as her coming tower
was ahCre the surface. her commander
thought he would fiji his lungs and
beat with fresh air as vel as have a
lcoE around
A. De emerged he glanced aft. and
the blood froze ia his veins when he
saw. lying on the Tat deck Of the
E-1uarins's after part q huge round
object with things 1uttlng out at va
rLOus angles The object was q mine
The submarine had risen exactly IN
lerueaLh it and brought II TO the top
vita her. The position was fraughtI
Hs-h tHs graVest o. danger, for lurch
rlla By The boat would have brought
sharp contact with the hull plating
cld-u0uffl boat. crew and mine
would have gone to glory in a shower
a. splluters-
Ia TIezIish Place.
And the boat could not suhmergeI
inst then. although Hun seaplane|
had already spotted her and was
working ever al fun speed TO bomb
her because there wasn't enough wa
ter ruder keel 70 hide her So, with
mis- breath held. and his finger tips
pressed together that commander
stood on his coming tower TOP and
sent HE boat ahead softly. keeping one
eye On the nine and the other on the
1uur1aching seaplaue. The latter drew
Crel head ana Immediately dropped a /.
lr-ll. whose explosion sent Up great
wave which Tapped thunderously over Il
the E-b1at's a1eback-and washed
that dreadful mine clean of into deep
water and safety
Thereafter that submarine per- 5
flrTled O. haEtv dive lnto the first deep {
yer and sat on che bottom while her 5
SOUL thrilled commander got back his ]
breath. h
Two Brilliant Feats.
Thrills in plenty are to be found In :
has section Of Lle navy trade, 7
r-tlch cruises the north Atlantic Here (
there must be lor az nignt crylsings
--i as the western ocean IS today asl
Tan q shipping as u ever was. and as :
r-7 move IN the blackness with Z
cut lights. one can scarcely blame the 9
eeuesf eyed Lookout Tor falling 70 b
Fee che Tow lying shape Of q suhma- F
I'D be feels e slight bump, til he hears :
ne FhriI screaming OF tortured steel 3
the Big ships prov cuts through thel
--1cats platings and sends her.
steel tomb. 10 the bottom Of the ocean,
1r all tine Small wonder, then, that .
ur Submarines keep excellent look 3
-rts when their very lives depend q
lpon IL
cften they bring their fran "tfn a
kettles" from underneath the very s
-cres OF fast speeding steamers often {
meg Ecrape through literally by the !
kin o. their teeth, in some cases s
ezrinE patches OF their paint upon the z
Iuers hull 70 show how narrow was
heir escape. What bigger thrills can
-uuau man want thar this2 Do
another Submarine Venture. d
o. q different order was the adven- j
lre q che crew OF another submarine z
ilch. WuI king in the North sea IN g Is
'c-. suddenly ran into something hard y
I'd uHTleldinE. and a moment later p
AZ asked very impoltely in German y
Were the hades she was running 70, y
md ~ she thought she had bouEht4s