HUNTING SUBMARINES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1915, Page 3

HUNTING SUBMARINES.

.MONOTONOUS BUT •SI'COES^FUL A. Renter nu>s,\<ago from Loudon in a rworj'j issue c ! t tho "Capo. Times," say.s:— A graphic description of tho methyl of hunting submarines is given in an article by a. naval eorwho denk.\s the American ea<Tc,':|>ondent's reeeitj;, statement tha* submarine Iniiitiiiy; is "great sport." This -write" says that the work is d-UHgercns enough, i>".i|o iiK'ouceivrthb* n.'onotonoiJS. i.'io men employed on patrol duty ;no iivca'trncj to do ■>( ten miles each way, steaming >a':k\vaJ''is ad ftoirwards night. an\! da\. constantly watching, while a gunlayer is ever roaJy to frv. 1 lie 10.5:..<s inflicted on the JGr.t-m-":i submarines aro irretrievable. The Navy lias moans of tracing the smbmai : n.'S ii" muhately tl io y on tea 1 a given are--Tliis iiivthcd >;s'among {h* most carefully {guarded of secrets, but it. is nomnuMi naval knowledge. iliat a submerged s.ubmaa»no can ho traced tliirotujjh the curious \viivo ic creates On tho surface. Blm-j ackers are now trained -to roeopiis,, this wave, and aro even ab'« t-o vlo so in a tumultuous sea-. Once we aro on such a wave the submarine is doomed. "T was handling a.t a tp.laee on tli<- eastern ccia-st recently," says the tfoinv impendent, "when T s : ghted tliiee destroy v,. s jjx'iumng nt half-spaed. Two. were abreast and t.lie third hot ween thorn. Suddenly the rear destroy'"" spivl-vl. Her «">nM»ai)ioii« /,ii.-y.no-owl twisting :ii n mnx n of movviiiioiits. and the guns started hoo-nring. Soon tie fi.r:ng erased. The ed over an ap])n,rently viuvuit s»>a. !'<"• li'Ut an lion'', and Uieii proceeded seaward, their aceomplishoi' Tlie .sho-:v was..strewn with oil I,y next incoming de. There are not sr* many German subm •y'inos now. We kep.p siliking them. hl/iwing ||,,. m or towing them in."