VANISHING SUBS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 10

VANISHING SUBS.

The : submarines go subbing forth., manned by heroic men : they journey east and west and north, and don't •orne back again. The Kaiser sees his yntly boats go sailing from his shore; ion something frightful gets their oats, and they came back no more. "There is a hqle/' the Kaiser sighs, "somewhere beneath the sea; there Üboats go, no more to rise ; alas, and woe is me ! When first my U-boat graft was sprung, I called for volunteers; the chosen- seamen then cave tongue to loud find happy cheers. They sailed away to break and burst old Britain's power and might; ach, schweitzerkase und liverwurst! where are my boys to-night ? And when, to save the Fatherland, I now ask volunteers, no sailor lifts a willing hand I—l'm1 — I'm facing mutineers ! And so I have to make the threat of hemp and gallows scenes, before they'll come, already yet, to man my submarines. Naught can affright the German soul like formless mystery, and I'm afraid of that great hole, somewhere beneath the sea !" And still the Kaiser's U-boats go, by crews reluctant manned ; and some grim monster, down below, is seeing that they're canned. — Walt Mason.