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Dear Mr.. KeIley:-
Eagle Hut in New York City; M / Ssss
just returned from . trip to EnRlan6
with British boat carrying tie 36Srd
Kansas Regiment. In day or two I
shall sail again, and this time I shall
stay in France.
On the voyage out, June to IL,
our convoy Of eight ships and nine or
ten destroyers was successful. 1t lost
none. On the return trip. June ~ 70
July 5, we lost one transport out Of Q
feet Of nine, just north Of Ireland,
where there seems to be . mesh Of
submarines. One cannot help suspec-
ting that the Huns have . base Aome-
where ON the Irish coast, for they are
all the time getting returning ships
at that point Another explanation Of
their better success in getting return
ing ships may be that information
about the sailing time Of any convoy
leaks out over there more readily
than on this side. Why, here in New
York, one, expecting to sail has to de-
pend on instinct to know when to get
on his ship 80 as not to be left.
The ship was torpedoed In the stern.
As soon as water could get In in suffi-
cient quantity, about twenty-five min
utes, the great ship stood perpendicu-
larly ON end and sunk out Of sight.
In another minnie It emerged IN The
same perpendiculer position, elected By
and then r disappeared forever.
The destroyers-Aast, little submsr-
Inc chasers- accompany tho
transports thru the 70 called AdanGsa
xone," on both sidee Of the Atlant3c,
began to drop depth shots, bombs that
sink to Q certain distance and IN
explode, destxoyine eveEytEing ~
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"a water, and = fhey - lily
caught by the shols II the desttoyefs,
Nine Of the bombs were drvppodin
this instance, before We saw the cloud
Of black smoke arise from tie water,
that Indicated that til oil tanks Il
the great submarine ha1 beon reach
ed. There II some satis6AcEioa n
knowing that the Huns sgot theirs"
In this case.
The ship lost represented property
valued ut about one million or more
The crew got Of in four life boats
during the Arst 1--WE minutes after the
strike. The loss Of life IL at the ex-
plosion Of the torpedo, when men hap
pen to be IN the steerage or In tie
locality hit by the shell, or to death
at the hands Of the U-boat crew after
capture; Tor instance, these crews arc
accustomed to numbering by torture,
or otherwise, the gunners Of any host
sunk and also any other person caught
in uniform. They sometimes set tie
common seaman adrift.
It Is 3 rule Of the seas now that
when one ship Of feet 10 hit, the
others must 'beat IT. 1t full speed and
not wait to be blown MP BY depth
bombs or lurking U-boats. We 'sbeat
It" in proper style and in about two
hours, and half, we saw an object
that we at first took to be another
submarips. It proved to be Q life boa1
adrift. The destroyers picked Il
mp and little later reported
by fadio that II had
contained seven Norwegian sailors
who had been adrift for .twenty-fouf
hours, their ship having been sunk by
10 German torpedo. Norway has 1oGe
about ave hundred ships in this wuy:
England twelve hundred. But . trIH
marveluuD work IL being done WitA
TIE transports. A million soldiers ass
already over there, and IN tie gst&ing
OF them across, only one man out q
twenty thousand has been lost. YSa
see they are 80 thoroly drilled in lifa
boat and raft service that only those
who are killed by the explosion are
lost. 81
At midnight, wireless came from =
English freighter, Atlanta, reportinr
that the ship was going down. IT.
location was a!r1ofs exactly that q
which our ship lad been lost. PropeF-
ty amounting to two and half
million went down with the Atlantis
We learned no further details, for -
were still beating it, &.
You can easily zee Whist . joyu1o
ard reassuring experiences sailing RI,
these days would be for one of 3 IL
per-sensative or nervous tempeFnni
! shall sail again tomorrow 81 nes{
day, as'I said; and l expect 70 rec1SiS
for work in France. fn IN frSSS-
Hu0Ff neFvieA hnva -. s-~sk 49, l<---.,ls
especially ,cn tie other st3e, for iIIi1Ss.
etc. The trips witA IL boys - u
but / shou1d xa<fe& - ik
going IN tAe way Mn IL boyE
heSers tAis nontA eaeepa 4 aka1 q
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