The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1919-02-13

they listen every few minutes until
tbe listeners are confident they are
over the Hun then the signal is Civ
en- and the ash cans are dropped and
the old Adriatic is given another good
shaking up Then the chasers all turn
back over the place where the charges
we're dropped If they find the surface
covered with oil. they are Of the opin-
ion they got sub,but its guess WORK
to some extent, for instead of blowing
them up. we blow them down and they
never come up.
We don't know just how many subs
the fleet has gotten since we have been
here. Myboat hasn't gotten any but
ONE of The others have. We were on
no job all the time and did more work
.an some of the others. but were JUS
little lnlucky is the subs happened
to ne ~ come cur way I'm confident
yYe put a stop to them going Out
through here.
Here's a story told my skipper by Il
IusoSlave off an Austrian ship from
Pola That was ii large sub base. He
>aid there were - subs operating ont
from Pola and that - went ont at one
zine and were never heard of again.
then the rest of the - were knocked
down and shipped overland to Germa-
ny. That sounds little tishy. but we
, know they were beaten at some of their
raZzo, our chaSers got two subs | be-
lieye. but my individual boat didn't
get any. The way this happened was
like this. There was hospital ship
lying in the harbor and when the bat
tie started she was given chance to
pull out to one side of the range and
those yellownecks took advantage of
this and pulled their subs out with her.
When she got real close to British
cruiser one sub came to the surface
and let 20 torpedo which just struck
the cruisers stern. She no sooner did
this than dozen cans or so went
down on her. sinking sub and all. l
feel sorry for those poor sailors that
were on those subs. for there is no way
for them to escape Once can is
dropped on them. This battle was fine
sport, if YOU will allow me to speak
of il that way. There wasn't much eX
element, you see we were about 10 or
II miles from the city and all we could
see was an awful amount of smoke.
Their guns wouldn't hardly reach us,
and they were shooting wild all the
time. They didn't score a single hit.
only with the torpedo and only one
man was killed by it, two were knock
ed overheard and washed ashore and
were taken prisoners. | suppose these
were English sailors. Everything went
fine with us. 1t was like this you
know Twelve of us chaSerS were the
first To come in sight of the city. then
about the time we got in our positions
the battle cruisers and destroyers were
on the scene. There must have been
about eight deStroyers and five cruis-
ers of different nationality, French,
English and Italians. Well, just as
we pulled up in sight of the city the
airplanes were just finishing up their
work. You could see shrapnel fly past
then could see them drop bombs, then
an awful smoke and dust would go up
i'm the air Then they sailed away in
,ieet formation. leaving one lone plano
over the city. 1t came mp just We did,
liy thiS time the destroyers and battl"
cruisers were in position and the Htti"
land battery fire "A little welcome or"
single ~het, then those biz old ships
opened up with both their forward and
lft tmict Then the battle Was started
They lay there and bclched fire and
steel. in tie meantime TWO deStroyel>
Nude tl4eir=Na mp 70 the entrance al
,Ap-h arhor. with several little "seoat-
erse we call them They are high
power motor iaHlltIl'S HNtd ny ilc ll1'
ians and carry only five men and t0f
torpedocs These scoaterS made q NAL
rush into Tie harbor and lei 20 theh
torpedoes then. took shelter behind iDr
de@uoyerS again By this time tn"
town vaS all smoke and through tic
glasses w could tell it Was wrecked
L also happened that there was somc
ships sunk inside the harhor Then
just as we were finishing up, We saV
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