South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

Il slid their gunbOat the port side headed
up the the BospOrus. II under small boat and
passed upstream to sink without doing the foe any
injury.
trepidity had dashed full speed toward the hostile
visitor. evidently intent upon ramming But the
British too quick, and when the Turks reached
the point where the submarine had been it no
longer there-submergence had carried 1t to safe
depths.
All the harbOr police and patrol boats were rushing
around looking for the sub" Turkish officers
OF high grabbed rifles put out in motor boats
hoping get shot at the invader. The shore artillery
continued TO rain shells around Some OF the shells
than did the British enemy. They came near the
Scorpion" said Lieut. Com. Stewart F. Bryant. Of
decks. The Scorpion. in the midst OF the excitement
beat all it's previous records for getting
shifting position
STOP TURK EXPEDITION.
Nothing OF the submarine. which
made escape without suffering any damage While
the British had not done any very serious har-thre
had been loss Of Hfe-they had succeeded in pro-
ducng profound effect The Turks did not dare
venture out with their transports All the troops
disembarked and the expedition the Dardaneles
abandoned The achievements proceeded TO the
trenches either by on foot
The Fourth or July celebrated on the Scorpion
in 1915, and OF the interesting features o. the
celebration the reading the Declaration Of In
dependence by Englishman who a guest.
Soon thereafter it assigned a berth Golden
Horn between the bridges which connect Samboul.
the old Turkish quarter with Pera the European
ton. The new position gave the crew opportunity
a.
terest. At the same hour in the "a sample of
tcaly every and tribe the earth
passes other Of those bridges Nowhere
be more amazing array Of costumes bizarre col
Orfu. oriental.
SEE STRANGE SIGHTS.
officers the Scorpion the Turkish
troops, commanded by German officers, going away to
war: they saw the Turkish wounded returning; they
British prisoners captured Gallipo march
ing the Turk prison camps. Enver Pasha the Turk
sh minister of attended by his TeutOn advisors.
daily spectacle, speeding over the bridges in his
big touring
Nearby lay the yacht of the fugitive khedive Of
Egypt beautiful vessel Not far away the steam
ship General the headquarters Of the German admiralty
staff. which, in reality directed Turkish operations
Toward the Bosporus pontoon bridge, which,
occasionally, the sultan his harem could be
passing in pomp and magnihcence.
German submarines frequently They
would go gliding by the Scorpion their to the
arsenal quays and dry docks. One it said had
made the trip from KEEL sinking two British warshps
in the Dardaneles route. An interesting story,
which officers could verify, told in Con-
stantinopie about the French submarine Turquoise
which captured by the Turks.
HEROIC SACRIFICE OF FRENCH.
The Mosems could understand the machinery. so
they French engineers the engines
The Frenchmen started the submergng apparatus and
the sub dived carrying French and Turks along with
it, to return
The first American battles with the Germans were
fought think beyond all question by the crew of the
Scorpion
One night two men from the Scorpion were sitting
of sailors from the Breslau and the
Goeben the Germans walked ostentatiously
past men, remarking in audible. if broken English
The German navy lick the American navy any
time out
Come Out?" shouted OF the Scorpion boys
'w'hadyamean come OUT? And what you doing
here? Why aren't you tied up in the Kiel canal with
the rest of the schooner snkers? Take that"
SHED FIRST GERMAN BLOOD.
Biff! So the battle began AT its height according
neutral accounts, az Germans being smashed
by four American fists Then the Germans threw beer
bottles and the Americans went down.
the Scorpions crew drew the first German blood!
The Scorpion is still ConstantinOple, under the
command Admiral and United States High Commits
sioner Mark L Bristol according dispatch
the beginning of this artice-received and published
since writing Of the Scorpions story-there is
For Sale" sign hanging on it.
whoever may buy it, wherever 1t may 1t leaves
an honorable tradition in the navy.
(Another article by former Sec'y Daniels win be
printed Wednesday,.