Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-01
STORIES OF THE WAR
The British Navy in The Arctic.


 Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 One side of the world war that is little heard of, and yet which has furnished some stirring incidents is the life of the British Navy in the Arctic. A graphic description is con- tained in an official account of ex- periences of naval men stationed at or near Arehangel. It says:
 The long winter night of four months is drawing to a close. The moon, which month has gone round in a circle for five days at a time without setting, no longer absorbs our at tentien. The rosy noon-day light has each day frightened and whitened per ceptibly, and now each 24 hours we see for a short period the sun low down over the southern hills.
 Witch the thaw comes the subma- rine, and it is not long before the U boats have laid their quota of ex- plosive eggs Off the entrance of the port Merchantmen arrive with sides battered from shell-fire, and tales of gallant actions and hair-hreadth es- capes, when the Kaiser fish passed be- heath their bottoms. Some do not ar rive at all-then the trawlers search l the face of the ocean, and bring in a
 
 crews who have been exposed for days in open boats to the fury of an Arctic Ispringtime. Sometimes they are not 1 found and sometimes the U-boat her l self meets the fate she has prepared for others.
 Tn the Arctic ice was found the i telephone Buoy of one who had missed I her prey, and coming too close, her self became the victim. The buoy i: only let go as last resource, wfer submarine is sunk and is unable te rise. It has a water-tight telephone upon it. connected with the hull o the sunl<en submarine, and by which lcommunicat ton can be established iron the surface with the imprisoned oc- eupants. It bears large brass plate upon which is inscribed the legend 1T Herman:
 .'Undersea boat the - is sunl Ihere. Do not touch, but telegraph a Ionee to the comnandant of the U boats base at kiei.
 Another submarine was equally un fortunate. though in different way The submarine rose to the surface tt shell a nunition ship which she ha1 torpedoed but the submarines frs shell exploded the ships cargoi O munitions. A large naotor-lorry on tn upper deck of the vessel pitched over
 board and landed on the upper deck O lthe submarine, sinking her instantly lThe ships boats were already S, crowded that it was humanly i'm possible to take another soul int
 four days in them with very scant, lprovisions before reaching land
 "Other submarines hid themselve Iambng the ice foes further nortt and many were the exciting games o hide and seek played in those stil
 waters, with only the seals and gram pus for witnesses.
 "Fogs, both in summer and winters are a very terrible thing in these Are tic waters. The cold wind blowing o the warmer waters raises an impene l tfabie mist, and probably causes a ! many losses as the eneny's best eff lorts.
 | Summer, that short six week. would be delightful season but fo 1.-the mosquitoes. Literally, one eat. drinks and breathes mosquitoes.
 with the end of August come tn igales again. to be followed very 500 , by snow, and the whole country be l comes bare and black and barren in 5 Isingle night. Boarding becomes stren r luous work and the convoy trawler ] as they sweep vessels through tn mined areas, have no easy time of it. fin bowling three days gale. ibig Russian ship which had struck 7 Ennine. was brought safely into harbc g by four trawlers, two ahead and tw a iastern and each with 500 fathoms ], Isweep wire out. Very perilous wor s lit was, but safely accomplished 5 though to see her come into harbe 2 before the great breakers. with he
 fore castle under water and her ster
 in the air, it appeared almost impoe
 sible Then night and day work ft
 ieveryone for week while her eare ' lis transferred, and she is eonducte 7 tsafely to Archangel One trawh 9 Istruck a. mine, and foundered in te : [seconds. only one of her crew beir n lsaved with the sea at freezing poin e And as the dark winter drags i z the days become shorter and shorte : Iuntil the sun no longer rises, The la 0 Esflip has left Archangel, homewal T hound, but the Arctic Squadron go 0 farther. west and north, to the ice fir, B waters of Kola Inlet.
 Il Strange to say, insomnia Is vel it prevalent, many men having to Q treated by the doctor for it. The darl