The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Advisory Board Secretary Daness Office. Thomas
A. Edison and Mr.. Daniels seated at the desk.
Thrilling Account of First Raider
Which Fell Victim to Yankee
Miracle Working" Retold by
Man Who Was There

put out of control sank to the bottom
and had collapsed, due to the tremen-
dous pressure at these depths. We
went back to the spot the next morn
ing and found an oil slick two miles
long by 500 yards wide on the surface
of the water.
"Wo told the Admiral at Brindisi.
Commodore Kelly, about this attack
and he was very much interested.
But he said. what we want 10 a
few arms and legs brought with It. IL
is interesting enough to bring UP lot
of oil, but you know how they are at
the Admiralty-they want proof
I'VE replied that we wished we could
do 1t, but under the circumstances the
water was too deep At the point
where a submarine goes down out OF
control there isn't anything to como
up. We were rather amused at re-
ports that after a submarine was sunk
how chairs and everything else came
to the surface. For my part I never
saw anything the size Of your hand on
submarine that would float.
The edition Of listening devices to
all American submarines was OF ire
mendous assistance to them when out
on patrol. The American submarine
base was at Berehaven, ireland, and
submarines operated from there off
, the west coast of ireland on the look
out for U-boats. Up to the time that
we entered the war submarines once
they submerged below listeners depth
; We're both blind and deaf. Tho de-
velopment OF the listeners for use with
submarines gave them an added sense
which they used constantly after they
got into the war zone and began on
anti-submarine warfare.
Submarine VS.. Submarine.
1.-The first trip that ALL made. after
having had an American detector In
stalled was following a U -boat (Which
she had previously seen submerge
| about four miles distant) for four
hours. both submerged, the ALL
changing her course entirely by OBJ
(, servations given to the Captain by
, the listener. The Hun was unaware
that he was being followed. blew his
tanks and came up. all OF which could
be heard on the ALL. and when tho
ALL rose to periscope height and
took look the U-boat was only 600
yards away and dead ahead. We shot
torpedo at him. but the torpedo
preached (came out OF the water).
| and the German, who apparently was
scanning the horizon rather carefully
before coming entirely up, saw It com
ing and Immediately made n crash
dive to escape it. This Is only one
instance of what the added sense OF
hearing did for the submarines as pa
troll v0QGa1a nj
stay submerged when surface craft
were IN the neighborhood,
The submarine overseas was COM
mon enemy and the allied submarines
IN all seas we're attacked quite as
much by their own patrol craft n.
| by the enemy.
submarines used to come in re-
porting having been attacked by Brit
! ish or French destroyers or airplanes
due t" the rapidity of tn attack and
due TO their inaoility to get Off a rec
ognition signal in time to stop them.
Our own American chasers suffered
| somewhat from this same trouble duo n
their strong resemblance on the horizon
10 submarine. One chaser in the Adri-
| attic was under fire from a British de-
stroyer one morning at dawn, and she
had to steam full speed ahead toward
the destroyer until they were able 20
mako her out with the glass. IN.
same thing occurred at Gibraltar two
| days before the armistice was signed.
Some Brazilian destroyers were COM
! Ing into Gibraltar when they sishted
three chasers on the horizon ana thsv
| Immediately concluded that thew nu..
| no submarine They opened fire and
kept II up TO- quite a while before tha
chasers could make themselves
known"
Mr.. Eveleth describes a peculiar IN
cident which happened one early morn.
! Ing In the Mediterranean near the an
trance TO the Adriatic Sea. An enemv
submarine had been caught in a nst
A pattern OF depth charges was ia,d
! around her and the trawler baclxsd
away TO take an observation. One M
the observers, who was operating IN.
overheard device from his station ON
deck felt heavy object brush arains,
| the dctec:or. \ few minutes lafsr hs
was dumtounded 10 see a German
sailor climb on board. He had .y,-
| IDENTIFY been thrown into the SO. nv
the force of the explosion and saved
himself by grasping the detector a. ha
drift0d through tia uats.