DRAMATIC NOTE FOUND AMID ARCTIC ICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 9

DRAMATIC NOTE FOUND AMID ARCTIC ICE.

TELLS" THAT SUB HAS DIVED FOE

LAST, TIME.

The long winter night of four months is drawing to a close, i writes a naval correspondent ins the Arctic. With the thaw come the submarines, and it is not long before the U-boats have laid their quola of explosive eggs off the entrance of 'the port. Sometimes the U boat herself .meets the . fate she. has prepared for others.

Among the Arctic ice was .found the telephone buoy of a submarine which had missed its prey and, coming too close, itself .became the victftpn. The buoy isi only let go as, a last resource when a submarine is. sunk and is unable to rise. It has a water-tight telephone upon it, connected with the hull of the sunken submarine, by- which communication can be established from the surface with the imprisoned occupants. It 'bears a large brass plate, upon which is inscribed the legend m German :

"Under sea boat the : —: — is sunk hero. Do not touch but telegraph at once to the commandant of the U-boats' base at Kiel."

Another submarine was equally unfortunate, though m a different way. The submarine successfully torpedoed, her victim, a munition-, ship, whose crow at onco took to the boats. In the woi'ds of the Gel-man communique, "our humane U-boat then rose to the surface to see what assistance she could render." and little guessing at the dangerous nature of the vessel's cargo^ the veasel blew up and the submarine was so damaged by the explosion that she sank, leaving her crew . struggling m the water withi their pistols m their mouths. They implored to be taken into . the boats, ijutAver-e left to their fate by the