Newport daily independent., 1918-11-27
One of Those Weird Romances of
 the Sea and the l War.
|YANk DOCTOR CHIEF FIGURE
lFavorite Bomb Shelter Wrecked While He Is Captured by Germans When
 on Voluntary Mission of Rescue.

lM. Stevens of New York, medical otil- cer at this base, owes his life to the fact that he was taken prisoner by the Germans, while Dr. Harry J. Dooley of Chicago, successor to Doctor Stevens, assistant surgeon owes his liberty to the fact that Doctor Stevens is pris- loner.
 It is one of those weird romances of the sea and war.
 Word was flashed to the bombing base one afternoon that seaplane was down on the surface of the water about thirty miles off the coast. A Hast motor boat, ready for such emer- gencies, was sent out. A surgeon al- ways accompanies such expeditions. Doctor Dooley in ordinary circumstan- ces would have gone. But Doctor Stev- ems was just retiring from the post, and he thought the trip might do him good.
 T think I'll go," he said to Doctor Dooley Ut will be my last trip and the journey will be something of re- lief.a
 He Jumped into the boat and was off. There were six others aboard. They reached the stranded seaplane in little under two hours. The flyers men had got her into condition again And were just ready to start off. They left the motor boat and landed back at the base in good time.
 Shelcd by Germans.
 It was dark. The surgeon, seeing what he thought were lights of town near the base, headed the motor boat in what he supposed the correct direc- tion. They surged through the light seas for an hour or more. They ap- preached close to the supposed home lights, when suddenly the scream of shell was heard coming straight at them. It exploded directly in the back of the boat. A second shell dropped : about two hundred yards in front.
 ''The Germans are smelling us," call- ed one of the men.
 s'Where are we?'' asked the skipper. They were under German guns. The lights they thought their base lights had been far off. They had been steer ing straight toward German-held ground.
 Slump into the water!' commanded the surgeon.
 The men went overheard. Half a minute later shell struck in the cen ter of the boat. It blew a great hole in her and sank her.
 A strong current was running up the shore. Doctor Stevens and one oth- hn;v cfrn hnod- ed for the nearest point of land. They reached the beach. They were drag ging themselves through the surf and had just reached the shallow water WheY squad of German soldiers marched down the sands with drawn bayonets and commanded:
 Surrender! You are on German territory"
 Doctor Stevens and his companion surrendered.
 Meanwhile the other five men were trying to make land. Two of them headed down with the current look ing for any chance to make land. The other three attempted shorter cut by swimming the current at an angle.
 O0c or tiltS tTiO NsiS u1OWuSus AhC other two got to land and were cap tured by the Germans. The two men a who were left swimming in the current were in a weakened condition when two British officers ashore made them out. The Britons jumped into the surf, swan out and dragged the men ashore.
 They ran to a telephone and called the bombing base.
 We have two of your men suffer ing from exposure and exhaustion. Their boat was sunk by Germans and two of the men taken prisoner" said tne voice.
 Germans Raid Base.
 Maurice M. Moore of Washington, D. C., jumped into the camp jitney and started for the place where the res cued men were He had to drive over exposed roads, but he made the up Journey safely, his car loaded with blankets. He took the men aboard and started home. Suddenly shells began exploding in front of him and back of him. But through the canopy of bursting shells the little jitney made speed safely for more than five miles, getting in without even a scratch.
 Meanwhile the German bombing planes started to raid the base. The sound of exploding bombs dropping around the air base was heard by Mir. Moore even before the automobile was near home.
 "Where is Stevens?" asked the eS. Iecutive officer, us the car drew up.
 'Taken prisoner by the Germans, lwas the reply.
 "Well. guess he is lucky at that. IHis pet place, in which he always islands when the raiders come, was blown to pieces half an hour ago"
 We. have been wondering wio is the luckier of the two-Stevens or .IAz<.I1asz tla.a .,,.oc,,ti,:a c.tii....,: