Arizona republican., 1918-06-24
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 J. HORSEPOWER
 |S NEVER DULL
Brother of Phoenix Man
 Tells Exciting Daily Rou- tine Hunting and Sinking the Hun Undersea Boats

the Hun UnderSea Boats Following is an interesting letter re- ceived in Phoenix by Chester Hanson from his brother now on board a United States warship in European waters searching out the German sub- marines and protecting the path to France for the transports carrying the thousands of American soldiers to the western front:
 Aboard Ship.
 In European Waters. Dear Cultivator of the Luscious Cacti:
 Well, the dead were finally resurrect- ed by means of letter from the American No Mans Land, and it was a joyful occasion. If you but knew how we keep looking for mail I'm sure you'd write eight times a week. I've been in this part of the world for a month now and absent from the states almost two months, and in that time I've had two punches of mail-so you see it's far enough apart.
 I'm still afloat and so is this good ship with the stars and stripes scream ing defiance to all the dozens of "Fritzies" (U boats) in these parts. You can just lay a small bet that when Fritzie sees a long, lean, hungry looking craft painted iron gray and flying Old Glory from her main, cut ting through the water, he feels a draught on his spinal column and doesn't lose any time in taking a quick dive to the bottom of the ocean. And that doesn't always help either The first thing he knows there's a heavy explosion just over his head and like as not he has to come up and sing out "Comrade,"
 They're Too Decisive
 Fritzie is afraid of American de- stroyers because, as he says, they are too decisive They don't hesitate, but climb right on his frame The other day three L. s. destroyers were con. voying number of transports loaded with American troops. and right out of the blue water appeared four peris- copes. Well, the destroyers made a cavalry charge for them.
 The first destroyer let go four deptt charges and blew the sub clear out o1 the water In second the surface oI the sea was full of wreckage and Ger mans. Another destroyer rammet | right through a sub and sunk him. bu battered up his own boat bit, ant then the bunch of them enjoyed Tiff, | oy dropping depth charges where the! saw the other two disappear That | absolutely true.
 You people howl about the lack 0 news in my letters. We'll, what's ther to say? Not great deal that vii pass. because even though I am mai censor I must obey the Rules an Regulations for the Government c the United States Navy as well a anyone. I don't know whether I hay written you or not since I arrive here, but I don't recall doing so. M poor head has forgotten everything ever knew before I came over, as ther are so many things that happen lik lightning on this job.
 An Exciting Trip
 Anyhow. we had a trip like you req about in dime novels. For two day out of Halifax we had right nic weather. By the way, we were con Voying transports-"ocean escort, the call it. That's old news now and s I can tell it. But on the third day storm struck us on the quarter an thereafter life was just one dam thing after another This blood hooker has a reputation for rolling an say, boy. she beat her own recort Forty degrees on a side, and that some roll. Lord, I'd be junior of ficer of the watch on the bridge an I'd watch her go way over on one sid hesitate there a minute and skate alon on her starboard ear, and then slowl go back and take an even bigger TO to port
 Believe me, if you didn't hang ol tooth and nail. you'd go sliding off int the drink. And the wind would shrie through the rigging and whistle an snarl and you'd look over the wing the bridge and see the water seethin and foaming. Yes, then you'd think ( the gang back home maybe sitting { the Palace watching a show ar you'd say: Damn the kaiser." On the Watch
 Something else again. It's the i O. job to inspect the ship once an hol l to see that everything is secure. Fir job that First of all the ship is daI 7 as pitch. No lights of any kind ar you can't see your hand before yo, 5 face. You eventually get off the bridt onto the main deck safely after nea' ly losing your grip twice and fallir into the drink. Then you start yo, : tortuous journey aft.
 You go a few feet and then a b sea comes over the side, headed rig l for you like a juggernaut. You grap ! stanchions or anything and hold ! while the water fills your boots al :. generally tries to tear you away. Tn, ' ' you cuss, wipe off the salt water fro 2 your face and proceed-hurriedly tf . time to beat the next sea. Sudden o you stumble and fall over a loose plal o or something and then another S |, wallops you while you are down. B
 why. continue? You eventually ma V your rounds, see that all guns a
 manned and lookouts alert as Germ II sea raiders are reported in the vicinit t And so your four-hou wat :. passes.
 Ship Stands On End Back in the wardroom you go loo n ing for sleep, but alas! there ain't c sich animal aboard. The dinner tai c lilies on it's back. a total wreck. T