FIGHTING SUBMARINES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14642, 21 February 1918, Page 3

FIGHTING SUBMARINES.

ADVENTURES IN THE AEOTIU.

MOTOR-LORRY SINKS U-BOAT.

The following "Times" message was recently published in the Sydney "Sun" :— -

The Press Bureau narrates a remarkable story at adventures in the Arctic Seas in connection with German mining operations aud British mine clearing work in the vicinity of ice-bound ports. "VV hen expected merchantmen do not arrive trawlers search for the starved and frost-bitten crews who are often exposed in open boat? to the fury of Arctic seas-. * Sometimes they are" not found at all.

Occasionally a submarine meets the fate it has prepared for another. We recently found a telephone buoy inscribed: "Under-sea boat sank here. Don't touch, but telegraph to Kiel bzfse."

Another submarine mot a similar fate. Having torpedoed a munition «rnp, whoso crew took to the hoats, the submarine, net guessing the. nature of the cargo, rose to the surface and shelled the stricken vessel. The first shell exploded the cargo.. A large motor lorry which was on the deck of the ship was pitched into the sea, and landed upon the submarine, sinking her instnnily.

A German communique narrating the story said that the ti-boat rosa to thesurface to see what assistance it couid' rentier to the boats, when an explosion: damaged the Submarine, and the crew .were left struggling, "in the water. "With their pistol's in their mouths they implored to be taken into the boats,, but were left to their fate by the inhuman Englishmen,-, who were .fit compatriots of the men on the Baralong."

The Pi ess Bureau adds that the ship's boats were .so crowded that it was impossible to take another soul oa board. The crews were four days before they reached land. The touching story about the iJ-boat men imploring for mercy with their pistol's iri their- months' is truly Prussian. ' j