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MONKEY WRENCH
DID THE TRICK
MYSTERIOUS TAPPING HEARD
ON SUBMARINE LYING
ON SEA BOTTOM
LONDONTbec. 28—Probably for
ty German submarines—no one out
side the grand fleet and the admir
alty knows the exact number—have
been destroyed or captured by the
silent watchers of the English seas
since the von Tirpitz "blockade” be
gan ten months ago. In not one in
stance have the details of how a
U-boat was entrapped been official
ly announced, not even the dwindl
ing of number of German sea ter
rors and the transfer of most of
those that remain to the Mediter
ranean have practically ended the
peril in home waters.
The natural result of this policy
of silence has been an avalanche of
rumors. For every submarine en
trapped, it is safe to ay, there "nave
been ten descriptions circulated by
word of mouth specifying some en
tirely distinct method which has
caught or is catching, U-boats by
the dozen. Some of these reports
are true. Most of them, obiviously,
are not. The story told below is
the best of the crop. It has been
submitted to the authorities, and
neither confirmed nor denied, and
I give it as I heard it, and in the
words of the press censor here when
he passes copy for publication,
“take no responsibility for the cor
rectness of the statements made.”
It was told by a sailor from a
German submarine, now a prisoner
in England, to a British official,
and the fact that I have received
permission to repeat it may indicate
that it is not true, or that the trick
described was worked under cir
cumstances so unusual that there
is no possibility of its ever happen
ing again.
After a voyage of ten days from
Wilhelmshaven, the German sailor
said, the U-27, on her maiden voy
age in enemy waters, found her first
prey in a tramp steamer off the
coast of Ireland. A patrol boat
was soon seen on the horizon, scut
tling along at her maximum speed
of of seven knots or so, and since
patrol boats carry wireless, the
Teuton “captain-lieutenant” in j
charge knew destroyers would soon
be on the scene. He gave orders
accordingly to make for a shallow
bay, where other submarines in the
past had lain hidden on the bot
tom until danger had passed.
The sailor did not know the name
of this bay, but he described a
headland running into the sea, with
a town and harbor nearby, and the
description fits Courtmacsherry bay,
on the west side of the Old Head of
Kinsale, and the possible rendez
vous of the submarine which sank
’the Lusitania only a few miles a
way. The eastern side of Hook
Point, near the town and harbor
of Waterford, may also be the
place referred to.
The U-27 “slept” on the bottom,
some forty feet below tbe surface,
all that night and half the next
day, and in spite of the artificial
measures taken to maintain the
supply of oxygen the strain com
menced to tell. The instruments on
board ''-corded the presence of ships
to and fro, the throb of the propel
lers of destroyers above could be
constantly heard, and the captain j
knew the British were aware of his I
hiding place. Soon an attempt!
must be made to creep some miles
away, raise for air, and try to sub
merge again before a shell from a
destroyer should bring the new
ship’s career to an untimely end.
“Suddenly,” the sailor said, “J.
heard a sound of a chain rasping
along our keel. None of us spoke.
We all thought we knew what had
happened. We had all heard stor
ies about the English traps set for
our boats that go cut and do not
return, and it seemed that we were
caught by a chain, although how
trawling could be carried out at such
a depth we could not guess.
“Tile officers gave no orders, for
what was there to do but wait?
Then came a stranger noise, a rap
ping on the hatch. It was repeat
ed over and over, and sounded like
a man driving a rivet into a steel
plate in a ship yard.
"The torpedo mate ran into the
engine room, where the ‘captain
lieutenant’ was, and they came oul
together, talking in low voices,
while the rapping continued. The
mate climbed up to the hatch, took
off his shoe, and rapped twice with
its heel.”
From the sailor’s story, it seems
there was something like a panic
among the crew, which the captain
checked with a few sharp words of
command. Even in the deadliest
peril, the German sailor or soldier
is more afraid of his officers than
of the enemy or of death itself.
Meanwhile, as soon as the mate had
signaled with his shoe, the rapping
outside commenced again. “You
fools it is a diver,” said the cap
tain. The mate took out a note
book, and commenced to write. Once
he tapped again with his shoe, in
terrupting the noise from outside.
Apparently lie asked for something
to be repeated which he failed to
catch, then the rapping began a
gain.
After what seemed a long time
to the awestricken sailors, the noise
stopped, and the mate, still standing
on the hatchway, read to the cap
tain a message something like this,
as the sailor said he remembered it:
“Mine fixed to your hull connect
ed to destroyer. If you move side
ways to escape it will be exploded.
Rise immediately and surrender”.
It seems a short message to take
many minutes to rap out by the
continental telegraph code, which
the mate, it happened, knew. But
the difficulty of making the most
simple movements under water,
when in a diving suit, may have
hindered the emissary from above
from spelling out his message as
rapidly as he could have done it in
a telegraph office; c.r perhaps the
mental strain on the listening sail
ors made one minute seem like ten.
The mate rapped a few times in
answer and then held a very short
conference with the captain. “We
crowded about, for we had heard,
and we would not have permitted
any other answer than the one the
herr captain gave,” said the narrato.r
“Tell him I surrender,” said the
catpain. and the message was spell
ed out by the mate’s shoe. A
moment later the submarine shot
to the surface, ?j.id the men piled
out on deck. A few yards away a
destroyer. Her gun crews were
ready for the command to blow U
27 out of the water.
Except for this little difficulty,
the German might have scuttled a
way in safety. For there was no
mine fastened to her. And as the
Germans sullenly looked across at
the smiling tars around the guns
and at other sailors lowering a boat
to receive them, they saw, hauled
over the side of the warship, the
diver who had bluffed them into
surrendering.
He had a monkey wrench in one
hand, with which he had rapped out
is blood-curdling summons to the
hull of the U-27, and in the other,
was a piece of chain two feet long
which he had rasped along the
German’s side to make the inmates
believe his message.
The story must stop here, for the
rest of it, through no activity of
the censor, cannot be printed. It
consists of awestricken attempts by
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the German narrator to produce the
language which he says his com
mander used in the next five min
utes both to his men before be
ing taken off the craft and to the
English oficers who received him
on their own.
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Visiting Brothers Welcome
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CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
C. E. INGERSOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining VI. S. Customs
Office
Notary
S. A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers.
Ketchikan, Alaska.
MARY A. C GIBSON
Stenogr apher
Notary Public
OFFICES
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Hours, 10 a. m. to 4 p. in.
People’s Meat Market
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Phone 64
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Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair Treatment
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the Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the nai'lity
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its numerouspatrons.
Henry Goemaere and H. W. Morgan
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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“Thebestis none too good for our Patrons”
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The best in the market; excellent
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