SUBMARINE DUTY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

SUBMARINE DUTY.

AND A FIGHT WITH A ZEPPELIN

liudyaid Kipling writes of a conversation he had oil board a submarine, an officer of which told of an adventure with a. 'AeppeYm :— "Yes, that was rather funny. One ot our bouts came up :,lap underneath ji low /epp. Looked for the sky, you know, and couldn't see anything "except this fat, .shining belly' almost on t»l> ol Yni. Luckily, it' wasn't the /cpp_.s siuigui' end. So our boat went to uindu-ard and kept just awash. I hero was a. bit of H sea. and the /epp had v, work against "the wind. Uhey don t hko that). Our boat ■sent a man k. the gun. He was pretty well drowned, of course, but he Jiunjr ou choking and spitting, and held iiis breath, and got in shots where lie could. This Zepp was straling bombs about for all she was worth mid—who was it?— Macartney, I tlnnk, potting at her between dires • aud naturally all hands wanted to look at tiio poriormaneo, so about half the jVorlh Sea flopped down below and '7 ', , e i\V V! d n ( ' Jlalli e Chaplin time "r it. Well, soJiiehow, Macartney managed to r«p the Zepp a bit, and she went to leeward with H list on her. Wo saw her a, fortnight later with a p;uHi on her port side. Oh, if Frjfz «'ii y lought clean, < his wouldn't be ha 1 ji. bad .how. But Frilz can't light cloan.

' And wo can't do what he does— ovoiii). wo wore allowed to," one said 'JN<>, we can't. Ti.su't ( ]om\ 'We have, i<, fj.sJi jr,-itz out of the water, •ley him, and give him cocktails, and send him I-.,, F)«.iiftn g ton HaU." (| And what docs Fritz "do? " 1 ask"lie splutters and clicks and bows. Me has all (.],„ rorm . t . , llot ; OIIS Vo k'»'w; 1,,,!, ~f course., wlion hoY Tour rc'iUvZ """ ~; teH hil " Whal h ° "And do yon supposo Vritr. underManUs any () f if,p" [ we , )( , ()U . α-o. Or lie wouldn't hav(> lusi- ' ■ "lined. I his war was his fust chance »l ij'akino; !,,„ name, and he chucked ■I. all away f or th,- sake of showin' off :, « ii ioul Gottstrafci'." And they talked of that hour of the niglit, when submarines come to the !"P like mermaids to got and eive niformation; () f boats whose business " ™ to tiro as much ;lm l to splash «.'<)»<■ as aKKrcssn-cly as possible; and •it oilier boats who avoid any sort of display--dumh boats Avatchiiiß and .'•••licvrnK watch, with tlieir periscope .lusr .show-mo; ]]] <v ~ crocvidile's eye. al '" ] "i" islands and tho mouths '•I channels where something may soiiH'. d;iy inov(> out in procession to its IHIOIII.