The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

dced and then shelled When the snb marine came alongside to finish the iob the commander stood outside the con nlng tower and bawled out his orders ~ the boats to get clear in a hurry lhe skipper of the steamer pulls an an, tomatic and downs this bird He fails with his body half in and half out of the open hatch of his submarine
 couple Of gunners that had fex themselves get overlooked when the crew was scrambling out of the steamer ducked up from below and cut loose rms dead submarine commander was Jamming the hatch. do you see? One sa.lor was trying to pull him out and another was yanking him by the legs to haul him below The U-boat couldn't supmerge With hatch open and the de- iay gave the gunners a chance to blow did" es pAoperiy
 good job. Now, listen to my prize yarn. There was young officer in com nland CT an English submarine, an ener- getlc Johnny full of the old pep lie station was in the North sea ubara ne was ordered to stay for 10 dave, .our and then beat it home for six days rest and refit. Well. this ioh sort oi went stale on him; nothing doing and no sign of scrap. One day natroI boat comes along to his station and he says 10 the skipper of her that be has . lnlnd 10 chase himself up toward Helf- E, soia,u ana take peep at the place. If ne dont come back, the patrol boat wiIl ALdly notify his loving friends.
 Off goes the Johnny, running on tbe surface when he could and submergine. frequent, but his batteries needed charglng and he couldn't stay under any too long. He is poking aro,,nd pretty close to Heligoland looking for lrouple, when along comes two Ger- man destroyers bound in to thi sfort- ress or an island. The busy Britisher says to himself that here's the eor- gous chance. He'll just follow tbess Dutchmen through the mine field be- cause, of course, they have a chart or the channel and fairway and are wise to the mines.
 50 the Johnny trails along behind sticking up his periscope now and then for quick squint and then submerg- ing lie is worried some about his storage batteries, but he can't quit at this stage of the game. He follows the destroyers right into Heligoland basin so help me, and never bumps a mine The Huns have very kinlly served as pilots
 He is mighty well pleased with hlmself and takes lightning slant through his periscope and the Ger mans fail to pipe him. Here he is. and what does he see but two grand bat tie cruisers at anchor within few hundred yards of him? Oh boy, He clears all four torpedo tubes for q grandstand finish, intending to let 'em all go at once. Two battle cruisers and his meat! He'll never get out but what's the odds? He is certainly one happy young Johnny, and his crew likewise
 GETS ANOTHER PEEP
 Just as he is about to slam loose he gets one more peep through his periscope and big, fat seagoing sub- marine is coming into the harbor Her men are all on deck, cheering and waving their caps. The bands on the battle cruisers are playing. People on waving flags This slob of U-boat has made a great cruise; heaps of merchant ships sunk. Welcome home .
 ''The Britsher lamSs her and switches his play. She is heading to pass closer to him than the battle cruisers, for one thing, and it's sound strategy to bust the big submarine. The German high sea fleet is bottled up and harmless, So he gets two tor pedo tubes dead on the submarine while the celebration is at it's best, and he lets her have 1t.
 "Zowie! Talk about surprise party in Heligoland basin. There ism. enough German submarine left to wad a gun. and as for the crew, they are cut short right in the middle of ring ing eHoch der Kaiser The Johnny feels the explosion. all right. He lands on one ear. picks himself up. finds his boat is still there and able to turn her screws over. Never say die; so he tries to work her out to sea again, going 1t blind.
 "The luck of the British navy Is with him and he had kept careful track of his courses while passing in through the mine field. He gets clear of it somehow and then finds he's shy of battery power to make getaway into safer waters. So he goes down and sits on the bottom to rest until night
 He has stirred up considerable ex- citement in Heligoland, and the Ger mans come boiling out to hunt for him--destroyers. sweepers cruisers. and what not After a while they be- gin to drag chains along the bottom. and he hears them scraping against his plates They don't happen to hook him, but his men get a little nervous They don't like the sound of those chains. So the Johnny starts the phonograph to soothe lem and kill the noise of the chains, and it works fine, and all hands take 1t snug and easy. After dark the comes to the top, runs a while, and then let's her breathe and rest while he puts the juice into his batteries. Then he jogs back to bio station And vybat yoI, thin k