Evening journal., 1918-03-09
TRAPPING A U-8OAT
on The SEA BOTTOM
TrawIerS Wrap Wire Haw-
Sers Around U as She
Lies at Depth
is SPIED OUT
BY SEAPLANE

NEW YORK. March 9.--One OF the
methods Of fghtins the U-boat is thus
/ graphically described by j. s. Marseri-
son in The Liverpool Journal ~ Com
merce Of February a:
a seapIane spotted a U-hoat iying
on the seabed and sent out a wireless
signal. Ten miles away a Ions, lean
destroyer and four squat trawlers de-
tached themselves from pack OF
hounds working a covert and Fastened
10 the kill.
Meanwhile the sesplane oircled
round, but when the surface ships
arrived her instructions, delivered by
wireless, were curt and precise. Acting
upon them, the irawlors stationed
themselves at the four corners OF q
wet quadrangle. while the destroyer
kept her guns ready TO talk TO FRITZ
should he appear above the surface;
The trawlers az the corners Of the
wet quadrangle got out their sweeps
long wire hawsers OF an incredible
stoutness. with heavy Kit In the CEN
ire 10 keep their bights down on the
seabed-and commenced 20 steam TO-
ward each other.
AS the pairs OF vessels met, theli
wires simultaneously engaged them
selves under the U-boat's bow anC
stern. and commenced 20 work theil
slnuous way between her hull and th'
sea bottom.
ut was then that a strange thins
happened. Two round. black object
seemed % deiach themselves from be-
hull and floaf surfaceward, 10 hover
second. and then 10 commence bObhinl
down the tide-bobbing down toward
lane much frequented by those ship
which brought food. munitions Of war
and hundreds OF other things 70 Ems
lands shore.
mine layer. eh?" called the sea
/ planes observer That's 70. lad cam
' the telephoned answer. But her egg
can wat for a minute" The trawlcr.
u still steamng toward each other nov
:. crossed, and their dependent cables he'll
$, The U-boat in a kind OF wire cats
Il cradle.
"a She seemed suddenly 90 wake 90 he
= danger. for, with a bound, she tried {
.. diseniangle herself from tho mcshe
~ which held her. But 70 was no use
h the trawlers had been too Ions at M
~ game 10 leave any loOpholes. and ih
A. submarine was doomed Got him.
q, sienaled the seaplanc Thanks" r'
piled the destroyer. "We'u give hil
n- five minutes 90 come up and breathe
NJ but no longer"
es The time passed and still Fritz maj
M no further move At a Tagged sign
be from the destroyer the port foremo
~ iravler and the starboard after %
~ slipped a small red Tin OF high eNpl
a sive 60 the bar-taut wire. and allow
si- u "a slide downwards tin 1t touched
ia, U-boats hull. 10 was the seaplan
lav turn 10 dag. and Immediately there
lowed the crashing Of two fists up
,cl two firing KEYS, the uprising Of G
rn- mounds OF water. and a rumbling, m
led explosion. The wires snapped
,ls The middle and the trawlers' ere
bs flew 20 coil them down.
.ne The seaplane cireled twice above
"a patch of rising OIL ascertalned q
Ie Fritz had been destroyed, and notif
80 the destroyer u the fact. Then. W
~, her observer slipping a drum Of ca
,s, ridges into his machine gun, she 81
OF after those objects bobbins do'
,d tide
=" ~ a burst Of rapid firing and the III
-, Of the DEVILS eggs. its buoyancy cha
~ Der punctured. sank with a gurgle;
'lV second gave a better show. for It
.s,r ploded grandly-and harmlessly-as
ne bullets reached him.