The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-13
HOW THE U-BOAT IS FOUGHT AND
 BEATEN TODAY
Seaplanes, Torpedo Boat De stroyers and Trawlers All
 Strive to Be in at the Kill

London, March 13.--~One of the methods by which, as the First Sea Lord, Sir Eric Geddes said recently, the submarine menace is being "held" is vividly described by a writer in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce.
 A seaplane had spotted" a sub marine lying on the sea-oed. Instant ly, the observers finger commenced to tap a key and ten miles away, a long. lean destroyer and four squat trawlers detached themselves from a pack of hounds working a covert, and hastened to the kill. Meanwhile the seaplane circled around, but when the surface ships arrived her instructions, delivered b ywireless were curt and precise. Acting upon them the traw- lers stationed themselves at the four corners of a wet quadrangle, while the destroyer kept her guns ready to talk to Fritz should he appear above the surface.
 The trawlers at the corners of the wet quadrangle got out their sweeps long hawsers of an incredible stout ness, with a heavy "kite" in the cen- ter to keep their bights down on the seabed-and commenced to steam to- wards each other. As the pairs of vessels met, their wires simultaneous Iy engaged themselves under the U- boats bow and stern; and commenced | to work their sinuous way between her hull and the sea bottom. The the strange thing happened. Two round, black objects seemed to detach themselves from her hull and float surfacewards, to hover a sec ord and then to commence bobbing down the tide-bobbing down a lane much frequented by those ships that brought food, munitions of war, and hundreds of other things to England's S shore.
 "Minelayer, eh?" called the sea- planes observer.
 That's it, lad" came the telephon- ed answer. 'but her eggs can wait a minute" 1 The trawlers now crossed their de- pendent cables and thus held the U- boat in a kind of a wire cats cradle. She seemed to suddenly wake from her danger, for with a bound she tried to disentangle herself from the meshes which held her. But it was ! uO uS0, luS lEdW1oTS Hdu -D0Su IOO long at the game to leave any loop holes and the submarine was doomed.
 "Got him. signalled the seaplane.
 Thanks" replied the destroyer. wen give him five minutes to come up and breathe, but no longer" That time passed but still Fritz made no further move.
 At a Jagged signal from the des- troyer the port foremost trawler and the starboard after one clipped a small red tin of high explosive to the bar-taut wire, and allowed it to slide down till it touched the U-boat's hull It was the seaplane's turn to wave a flag, and immediately there followed the~ crashing of two fists. upon two firing keys; the uprising of two grey mounds of water and a rumbling muffled explosion.
 ''The seaplane circIed twice above the patch of rising oil, ascertaine6 that Fritz had been destroyed, anG notified the destroyer of the fact
 Then, with her observer slipping (
 drum of cartridges into his machine
 gun, she sped on after those object: bobbing down tide. A burst of rapid
 firing-and the first of the deviP'
 eggs, it's buoyancy chamber punctur
 ed, sank with gurgle; the second gave a better show for it exploded grandly-and harmIessly-as the bull
 lets reached it.