The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-12
BY WALLACE BEERY

BY WALLACE BEERY
 Things I never knew 'til now about the invasion of American wa- ters by U-boars in 1918: %
 THAT seven submarines sank s6 ships within sight of the American coast. The first to go down was the Hattie Dunn, sunk off Winter Quarter Lightship An May. The U-l51. first of the hostile craft to be sent into American waters, sank 22 ships in 53 days.
 THAT a U-boat entered the mouth of New York harbor on the night of May 28, laid mines; but two important transatlantic cables, one to Europe, the other to Central America.
 THAT on July ?, from the guns of one of these U-boats, there rained on American soil the first foreign shots in century. These fell on the shores of Orleans, hamlet on the southeastern elbow of Cape Cod. Thousands of. spec tators watched in ainazement from the shores of Hyannis, Falmouth, Harwich, Yarmouth and Dennis, as Orleans villagers were sent scurry- ing into cottage cellars.
 THAT this bold attack was not directed upon the town itself, but upon the tug Perth Amboy. The tug, towing barges filled with wo- men and children was few hun- dred yards offshore. Creeping up under cover of seaward fog, the sub charged at full speed with both three-inch guns blazing. The barge folk, screaming with the agony of burns and wounds leaped into the fiery sea. Whaleboats were launched frmo soher to res- cue the forty-one victims.
 THAT hydroplanes from Chat ham, attacking with aerial bombs, were kept at high altitude by the blistering fire from the submarine. Behind the curtain of fog, the sub made its retreat, hugged the coast dIIu WOIhCu AUo Wdy AAOA uiAWoAa throughout treacherous shoals into the shallow water of North At lantic bay. This astonishing feat of seamanship was recalled when Cape Cod seamen reported that the U-boat's second officer had, behind a thatch of whiskers, "a mighty fa- miliar face",
 THAT following her spectacular peace-time voyages to the United States the famous Deutschland re- turned as raider under command of another capital. The chubby Paul Koenig had been replaced by the youthful Kapitan-lieutenant Erik Eckelmann.
 THAT these U-boats, bigger than any that have been built since. were three hundred feet long, had from five to seven torpedo tubes carried fifty mines Two were dou. ble-decked.
 THAT the subs had a cruising radius enabling them to cross the Atlantic both ways, and to roam the New England coast for three months.
 THAT when U-boat crews board- cd ships they were about to sink, they were not often in search of fuel or staples. Aside from off, cers, whom they took as prisoners, their most highly prized trophy--it sounds silly but true!--was katsupl In addition to their crews of four officers and seventy-eight men the submarines often had huddled with In their hulls as many as twenty or thirty Yankee officers and sail- ors. But the ketsup-that was hard CT to find.
 THAT Second Officer Rene Bas- tin, taken aboard the U-140 at the sinking of the tanker O. B. Jer- nings, was prisoner in the sub while depth bombs hammered the enemy craft to the bottom. Badly shaken, the U-140 continued her raiding forays. Before Bastin's very eyes, she gunned the Diamond Shoals Lightship into eternal darkness. The U-140 plunged wildly as a depth eoinb shattered her coming tower, alew away her periscope, made of her a tomb of living dead.
 THAT Bastin, down there waiting for death, was amazedl to see the sub rise off the bottom after play ing dead" for hours to elude the chasers. The submarine radioed an sos, was picked up and lowed home