Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-14
SOLDIERS FORGE
 SHIP CREWS TO
 OBEY ALL RULINGS
No Lights Must be Shown. Was Order, so Watch Of- ficer on Boat Was Arrested By Soldier Sentries

LONDON, June 6.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press) - Although troop ships that bring over American soldiers are so well protected that the submarine menace is virtually negli- gible. submarines throughout the trip are probably the chief subject of con- versation. Usually the references to the undersea terror are jocular. but it is apparent that much serious thought is given to U-boats and that they loom large in imagination. This applies to officers as well as to the men. All say frankly they have no desire for brush with the sinking enemy craft.
 The reason fer this was neatly put by a major of infantry who recently landed in England. Fighting submar- ines" he said, isn't our game. In that pithy explanation he summed up the soldiers attitude exactly.
 Fighting the submarines isn't the army's game. and soldiers can't play 1t because they don't know how. If their ship is attacked there is nothing for them to do except march on deck and prepare to take to the lifeboats. De- fensive measures rest with the trans ports naval guns and with the escort ing destroyers. They, as the soldier sees 1t, have all the fun, while the sol dier must stand by, eager to fight, but helpless to take a hand.
 The army officers feel keenly their responsibility in such an unfamiliar situation. It devolves upon them to clear the ship of every man and get them into their proper boats.
 In order to do this with the greatest possible celerity and precision, the commanding military officer and his assistants carefully work out their plans before the ship sails. On large vessel carrying several thousand troops 1t is necessary to quarter the men on all decks. some far down in the vessel. The task, then, is to get them all up on the boat deck with the least delay and without confusion.
 Boat drills begin soon after the ship leaves port. Each man is assigned to a particular boat, and it is highly m- portant that when the troops, in re- sponse to the alarm signal. are moving up from the lower decks that there be no interference and congestion on the stairways.
 The problem presents a number oS difficulties, each of which Is studied with care. So perfect was the system employed on one big transport that the 5000 troops on board could be brought from all parts of the ship to their stations on the upper deck with in less than five minutes.
 When a transport approaches the submarine zone. precautions are in- creased. All officers and men must wear their life preservers constantly, and when the ship has got we'll into the zone, orders are issued for the men to sleep in their clothes.
 No lights, of course. are shown. To guard against the inadvertent striking of a match whose flare might reveal the vessels presence to a lurking sub marine, no one is permitted on deck after dark with the exception of the ships crew. Sentries are posted to see that this order is strictly obeyed.
 An amusing incident occurred on a huge British transport which was car rying a particularly large number of American soldiers.
 About nine o'clock one evening, while full speed was being made through the heart of the zone, a sen try noticed a ray of light playing in a small circle on a distant part of the deck which he was guarding. He call