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Getting the Subs,hhPcdTorpedoboats Dash and Swirl in Apparently Aimless Circles Chasing Preyit was a clear day ofl Folkestone,-1 the channel two English torpedo oats loafrd. There was a sudden ir of cxritttnenL The toipcdo oats put on lull steam and began tshing about in apparently aimless irclrs. A seaplane whit led lt;Hit of ic bay and spun alott. circling a pot m the water. W attiring crowds aw a dark shadow which sank lack into the depths, Motor lorries hur-i rtcd several detachments of soldurs ; to the shore as the hovering guaid* of the c'Mst drove their prey toward land- The soldiers kept a curious populace hack until dark. Next morning all was calm as usual, but anotncr German submarine had beeu ( added to the list capturrd by Eng- r land's sea hunters. | lt;jIt happened just outside our win* a •low/' Mrs. Bate* said. We wanted t to see what became of the German c • rew. But we were disappointed c A liatever happened was obscured by t darkness. yMr. and Mrs. Bates were in Eng- jg fund at the beginning of the war. ( i hey sailed for the United Mates in s^ pieniber. , iIt may sound strange, Mrs. Bates j said, but about the best thing we found vrhcn we got home was white t bread. After a diet of English war bread—a grayish sticky substancecomposed of a little wheat and a lotof something else—American bn ad seemed the best food wc had evermap,On the return voyage Mrs. Hates* vessel was attacked twice by submarines. The first attack was late on a clear morning. A lookout sighted a periscope and the wakr of a torpedo speeding toward the ship. The vessel veered and the torpedo passed 50 feet nstcrn. Then the naval gun crew unlimbered their cannon and the U-boat disappeared.The next attack resulted disastrously for another of the kaiser’s sea terrors. The U-boat fired two torpedoes, which missed. Naval gunners sent a hail of shot toward the periscope. Mrs. Bates counted Od shots. The captain of the gun crewwouldn't tell what happened, but ship gossip had it that the gun crew's first shot disabled the sub.” and thatlater it went jftpg ’-« . « .1in London Mrs. Bates saw the first, Zeppelin downed by an English air-1 plane. She and her husband were awakened by the roar of bursting bombs. They hurried into the street,I Hundreds of fingers of light darted through the sky and finally the Zep* pclin was flooded with light. Two English airplane* darted in. therewas a rattle of machine gun fire and the Zcppclm fe’l in flames.For the women of England Mrs. Batrs has the strongest praise. Wo- j men are doing everything, she sat*—and working cheerfully. Wives of noblemen are serving in hospit.ils tinder their former servants, scrub- j bitif, carrying coal—because English hospitals generally arc without steam heat— making bandagt § and stoop-1 ing gladly to the hardest kind of manual labor.Cafes and theatres, now are at-, tended chi. fly by refugees, Mrs. j Bairs says.“The English, without exception, have given their entire time to the war, Mrs. Bates said. If anyone suggests a table for bridge she is looked on as an enemy of theIHHMvs?
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Wadena Herald
Wadena, Saskatchewan, CA
Thu, Jan 24, 1918
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