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- <& - -TALES OF THE CHANNEL.

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<& TALES OF THE CHANNEL. A SUBMARINE HUNT. An Adventure Upon Our Ooast By George Long. [The writer was a pre-war member of the Cambria Daily Leader" staff, and is returning to us upon demobilisation] A dark night, not a light showing as the patrol-boac steamed a;ong at a com- fortable twelve knets. And t.his is St. George's Channel, not so very long since. Lookouts strained their eyes in the en- doovour to pierce the iiikly blackness, as the nights of war were not, even when the Hun submarine was not about, very conducive to safety, and collisions were many. Yet the ceasel ess vigil had to be kept, for a wireless message from The Admiral ashore had ticked out in code a position when a U-boat bad been sighted some houro before. It was a quarter of an hour to eight bells, and the first watchmen had visions maybe of how such a night might be spent in a fo-ur-postei instead of the four hours in a hammock which would shortly be their lot. But the monotony was brokcSi, and all such shattered in-the next minute A FLASH. -I A flash on the starboard beam with what seemed a thunderous report in the still darkness, closely followed by about five others, and life sprang into being on the boat. The captain rushed from the chart house, but his advent had been al. ready prepared for by the sharp orclor from the officer of the watch,; U Full speed both. hard a port." Criin ports were drcepped, stokors appeared as though by magic with yards of hose ready for emer- gences.. Wardroom stewards, messmen and other non-combative ratings hastily passed up ammunition from the maga-1 zines—but all to no purpoee, for about a twenty-minuto run brought a small schooner, aadily damaged, into view. But ouo of her three masts were scan ding, that bearing but a few rage of canvas, j torn by a shell. And the Hun had sub- merged-after another example of liia frigh tf ulnees. The writer, a Swansea boy, was on board The patrol, and perhaps could give a better account of the subsequent settle- ment of issues with tho cowardly foe by speaking in the past tense. FLOATING SPARS. Une of the many drifters in the vicinity was sonn on the spot, attracted by the gunfire, and the crew-of the schooner—one badly inj ured-were taken aboard just before the stni cken ship took her laet plunge. We then resumed the patrol, passing funtiuually to and fro over the scene of ihe attack. Daylight came eventually, and with it a. pathetic sight of floating epeurs—all that was left at the night's ailair. A SA I L I Six o'clock and again gunfire, this trfme many milet a way. The signalman locked through his glass, and reported a small sail just over the horizon on the port bow. Again the turbines trembled and roared as they worked to their utmost capacity. A.gain the ship's oompany went to act-ion stations-, and a very short period elapsed before we were very close to another sohoone-r practically on her side. The crew were in the only boait, but the cap- tain still stood by .the tiller, ae though hoping agroinst bopg chat she wouLd right herself. Over Jjhere yelled out one of the crew makipl frantic gestures ahead of ue in pointing out the direction in irhich 6he submarine had goaew We went on. but saw nothing However, the captain dropped three depth charges in case øh. should be linking in the vicinity, bint no result was forthcoming, and we returned to the stricken vassal to take aboard the survivors, who were all luckily untouched. Another drifter was short!y^fcerward« sighted, and they were transferred to her. eventually being taken into lLiliord Haven. And we, in accordance with the orders that were in the captain^ pocket, too k up our watch once more, very in-uoh dis- haftrtencd at not being able to come into I cloae contact with the enemy. "THERE SHE ISI DO But yet another move with the U-boat wa3 to be ow lot before we returned to our bpoe ior the short rest time allowed. All the hours following Fritz kept low while daylight lasted, and eight o'clock in the evening, just aa the first watchmen were relieving, saw us cruising about right under the glare of the ———- Lighthouse. The sky was clear, and the moon ftll, so that visibility extended to some miloe. An hour had passed when the signalman on the bridge suddenly raised the telescope to his eye, and a few seconds afterwards uttered the pioat- ing cry: There she is, sir, on the port bow in the moonlight I" Three pushes on the alarm button had the desired effect of getting aU the men to their staftdons within* a minute; and we steered at, 4igh speed straight for the submarine. "STAND BY TO RAM I II Hold fire," shouted the ca.ptam down the gun voice pipes. Stand by to ram." We all clung to the nearest arm object in preparation for the jar as we etruok the submarine--but it was not to be. A noticeable alteration of course took place juat before the ooxwain announced that the heim had jammed, and before it could be riirhted wa found m11"AA\V- mil. ning fmos t the salao WUTOO as tho enemy. It wa* evident tha.t she had come to the surface to charge our batteries for her underwater engines and, it seeme d So w had taken us for a merchantman tihat" had altered course to avoid her, eo that. w received oiders from the bridge to still withhold fire, but nevertheless we all fully expected to see a torpedo eome slithering by, I I AT LAST. I I Onee again we got on a course to hjt her, but our manoeuvres had arout? her I sugpieions, as before we could ge?c herl, she had flooded her tanks and had sunk like a ttone. And then w a part played by that greatest of British war inven- I tio:n--th depth C\ba. Over the ap» í proximate spot wh?re tha Hun had Mb. I merged a pill at was dropped, detonating a-t a dlpt]1 of about 200 feet. Twica th:n I w altered ow coura& jo 36 to form a j triangle, and cut back loo ato-sa her course should 811.. be speeding up under the our- i face. Three deafeniJiS exploaioajje, and f with the third, as thfc huge mountain of water ro. caine the U-fooat to the surface j > once more, but in two pieeec. She had; been cut nenr '?e conning tower. No I trace of any (? The crew could we find.j but with the daylight we found a large patch of oil on the water--all that was 1 left of yet another pirate. |

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