Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Oct 1919, p. 13

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a 4g RoAY. OCTOBER 25, 1910 SRR 17g OALLLLALLALLLLAALLLLALLLLLSLLSD DALLAS BODABALODA, N CTORY 0 By ADMIRAL WILLIAM SOWDEN SIMS A NL BA SI THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG £ASMAELALBLAMLAASLS BOALMSLMM vee AT DIED BD INDABA, PAGE THIRTEEN a A A A AAA AAA SRR TH wow w yew VOPO PUT TITY E TET TEPC TIYVYIVEEWeTY VOUIVIYY VOUTVYVYIIVITEYTYYW 'WHAT THE DEPTH CHARGE ACCOMPLISH ' Innocent-Looking Missile That Wrought Havoc. "Depth Charge Nerves" Dreaded by U-Boat Crews.-How the Destroyers Hunted the Submarines.--Weddingen's Disastrous At- tempt to Destroy the Neptune. If a dozen depth charges were dropped ,one after another, fect upon the men in the I rel was particularly di the course of the v own submari by our own destroye crews we obtained tions of the resultant sens was found that men who had pa through such an ordeal were practi- cally useless for several days, that sometimes the rendered permanently unfit for service. { from our e descrip- were "Depth Charge Nerves." The state of nerves which followed an experience not unlike that new war psychosis known as shell shock. One of our officers whe had had such an adventure told me that the explosion of a single depth charge under the water might be compared to the concussion produced ay the simultaneous firing of al! the 14-inch guns of a battleship. - One can only imagine what the concus- sion must have been when produced by ten or twenty depth charges in succession. Whether or not the sub- marine was destroyed or seriously in- jured a depth-charged- crew became xtremely cautic in - the future about getting an re in the neigh- borhood of a destroyer; and, among the severa' influences which wulti- mately disorganized the morale of the German U-boat service, these con- tacts with depth charges were doubt- less most important. The hardiest under-water sailor did not care to go through such frightful .moments a second time. This statement makes it appear as though the depth charge had settled the fate of the submarine. Yet that was far from being the case, for against the ash can, with its three hundred pounds of TNT, the subma- rine had one very powerful defen- ive weapon. That was its invisibil- ity. Strangely enough the av ge layman is inclined to overlook this fairly apparent fact. Indeed, the only respect in which _the sub-surface boat differs essentially from all other war vessels is in this power of get- ting out of sight. Descrying danger from afar, the submarine can disap- pear under the water in anywhere from twenty seconds to a minute. And its great advantage is that it can dgsect its enemy long before that enemy can detect it. A U-boat, sail- ing awash, or with only its conning tower exposed, ®an sce a destroyer et a distance of about fifteen miles, if the weather is clear. Under simi- lar conditions the destrover can see thse submarine at a distance of about four miles. Possessing this great ad- vantage, the submarine can usually decide whether it will meet the en- _, omy or not; if it decides that it is wise to avoid an encounter, all it has ~to.do is to duck, remain submerged until the destroyer has passed on, entirely unconscious of its and then resuming its real work, «which is not that of fighting warships but of sinking merchantmen.. The chief anxiety of the U-boat command. such was er is thus to avoid contact with its] surface foe and its terrible depth charge, whereas the business of the destroyer commander is to get within fighting distance of his quarry. How a U-Boat Betrays Itself. Ordinarily conditions favor the U-| boat in this 'game, simply because the 1 resence, | ocean is so lar depth charged a hardl; as it be immedi If it come its gur vake, clearly ap rs on the su the water. Though most newspaj readers have heard of this tell-tale track, I have found few y understood what a consp turbance it is. The torpe a little submarine itself; i ed by yressed air, the aust of which stirs up the water and pro- duces a foamy, soapy wake, just like that produced by the propeller of a ocean liner, This trail is four or fi feet wide; it as white and distinet as a chalk line dry a blackboard, provided the weathe clear and the sun ig in the it dir- ection. Indeed, it is sometimes so dis- tinct that an easily manoeuvred ship and even sometimes a merchantman, can avoid « the torpedo, provided, it sees it 'coming, by merely putting over the helm and turning out of its course. But the chief value of this wake to the submarine hunters is that it shows the direttion in which the submarine was located when the torpedo started on Mts course. It stands out on the surface of the wa- ter like a long, ghostly finger point ing to the spet where the foe loose its shaft. progress, is really 5 propell- is fn. upon let Hunting Down the Prey. As soon as the destroyer sees it, the commander rings for full speed; one of the greatest advantages of this type of vessel is that it can at- tain full speed in an incredibly short time. The destroyer then dashes down the wake until it reaches the end, which indicates the point where the submarine lay when it discharg- ed its missile. At this paint the sur- face vessel drops a depth charge and then begins cutting a circle, say, to the right. Pains are taken to make this circle so 'wide that it will include the submarine, provided it went in that directioy, The destroyer then makes another circle to the left. Fv cry ten or fiftedn seconds, while des- eribing these circles, it drops a depth charge; Madeed, not infrequently it drops twenty or thirty of them in a few minutes. If there is another des- follows up the wake and when it reaches the indicated point, it circles in the opposite direction from the first. Sometimes more than two may start for the suspected location and under certain conditions of water, within a radius of half a mile or more may be seething with exploding depth charges. It is plain from this description that the proceeding becomes an ex- ceedingly dangerous game. The op- portunity which the submarine has of | escaping is represented by the time {which elapses from the moment when ithe destroyer reaches the point at which it was discharged. This inter- ival gives the sub-surface hoat a cer A A ot AAA. £2 INDIGESTION L At ontel---"Pape's Diapepsin' corrects your Sour, Ting or dar TEES Jie tain time to get away; the time the critical spot th vanced but a from it. How { what directio strover reaches the ubmarine has ad- rt distance away has she gone? id she go? These are the two questions which the destroyer | commander must answer, and the suc- cess w which he answers them ac- curately sures his success at sink- ing him a good s ) decided these two points aceurately AAA AAA he would almost always "get" his| Pale-Cheeked Girls submarine; the chances of error are very great, however, cases gets away. All that the sur- face commander knows is that there is. a U-boat somewhere in his neigh- borhood, "but he does not know its precise whereabouts, and so he is fighting more or less in the dark. In the great majority of cases the sub- marine does get away, but mow and then the depth charge reaches its goal and ends its career, If' only one destroyer is hunting, ithe chances of escape strongly favor { the umderwater eraft; if several pounce upon her at once, however, tha chances of getting away are much more precarious If the water is shal- low the U-boat can sometimes out- wit its pursuer by sinking until the surface enemy tires of the chase. But m the open sea there is no possibil- ity of getting away in this fashion, {for if the submarine sinks beyond a ieertain depth, the pressure of the wa- iter will crush it. {| While the record shows that the | U-boat usually got away from the depth charges, enough were sunk or | seriously damaged or given a bad ishakeup to serve as a constant re. iwhich were protected by destroyers. The U-boat captains, as will appear. but its under water speed is moderate, and so by!surface craft. Inihas a much shorter range than that ging his enemy, or giv-lthat was desirable, if the torpedo was If he always to accomplish its a i and that is the] troyer in the neighborhood, it also reason that the submarine in most! {which they ran in approaching waters --IOMIR y . HN ' eos aire 2] 1 get within depth charge radius of the | In discharging the tor-| sted, ation. | The U-boat 'carries a torpedo which | pedo, distance, as already inti is the all-important conside | of the destroyer; it was seldom ef- if fired at more than 2,000 yards; beyond that distance its hances of hitting became very small. { Indeed, a much shorter distance than most destructive Tired-Out Women Quickly Built Up. WONDERFUL RECORD MADE BY NEW BLOOD-FOOD REMEDY Certain Results Guaranteed. Pale people have pale blood. In other words, the blood is watery dnd lacks red corpuscles. : The stomach is wrong. | Assimilation is poor and food is not changed into blocd. Naturally the system is robbed of vitality, lacks strength and reconstructive power. Don't slip from vigor iato weak- ness, : Don't allow the .appetite to fah, but instead use Ferrozone. You're bound to feel rejuvenated and strengthened at once. Appetite is braced up, digestion is stimulated, vigor imparted to the stomach. 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Every pale woman can transform avoided such waters regularly; they nt more ne sinking ¢ Survivor. s an heroic few German cc mpted to emulate arly proved to th that it destroy was useles the Grand mes | it piece-meal, { perience had new kind or much to do with of warfare-- German comrender who, whenhe Sank theBritish cruisers Hogue, the PY ETT TTY PTY TUT PUTT TEE TY TUE TY OE VTS YY nande 5 exam- » German s to at- Fleet even to weaken and probably this ex- this submarines against unprotected merchant ships-- --_-- Zreutenent Otto Weddingen The an | mines, cruising in the open sea Was vecognized as its best moans of avoids , German U-boats, No claim e that the submarine cannol der the destrover screen and attle fleet, and possibly tors on more of its vessels. The tion already given shows that "got" the Nep- ysrpedo gone 'a few ¢ experiment might ave shown that, although he sub- sequently lost his own life, he had sunk' one British battleship--a pro- ling which, in war. might have been recognized as a fair exchange. the point is that the chances of were. so small that the Ger- s decided that it was not worth to make the attempt. After when the merchant vessels were ymed into convoys, the submarine asionally dived under the screen destroyed a ship; but most such ks were unsuccessful, and ex- nee taught the Germans that a stent effort of this kind would the destruction of so manv arines that their campaign would So the U-boat commanders left irand Fleet alone--either be- v lacked nerve, or becausd ructions from Berlin were xplicit to that effect. his es A Tonic For the Nerves The Only Real Nerve Tonic is a Good Supply of Rich, Red Blood. 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These pills actual+ ly make new, rich blood, which strengthens the nerves, improves the appetite, gives new strength and spirits, and makes hitherto despon- dent people bright and cheerful. If you are at all "out of sorts' you should begin curing yourself to-day | by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. You can get these pills through | any dealer in medicine, or by nail at { 50 cents a box or sit boxes for $2.50 { from The Dr. Willlams' Medicine Co.) | Brockyille, Ont. o PLAN DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL GRANT] Quebec to Have $20,000,000 Spent On Good Roads Over the Country. Quebec, Oct. 24.--Peoter Mullar- key and W. 6G. Magrath, two of the members of the special commission appointed by the Federal Govern- ment to supervise the distribution and use of the $20,000,000 voted by the = Federal Government for the construction and maintenance of good roads all over the country, had; a long interview with Sir Lomer Gouin and Hon. J. A. Tessier, Min- ister of Roads. Final arrangements were mads| for the distribution of the Federal 1 good roads grant. The Federal Gove ernment will make grants only for the construction of permanent pro- vincial and interprovineial roads. The Government grant will be forty pe cent of the cost of the undertakin and the Provincial Government will lend the sixty per cent. balante ig the municipalities, according to provisions of the Good Roads A of 1912. Hon. Mr. Tessier's department | making all the necessary - ments to have the provinee of bec benefit to the fullest extent the Federal Governmént grants, CATARRA DOES FARM Whether It Is of the Noss, Throat, or Other Organ, Get Rd of It. | Catarrh of the Bose or throat wh it becomes chronic weakens the deli {cate lung tissues, deranges the 4! fore to cure nervousness ghd rum« V° Gassy, Acid Stomach--Relief 'awaits you! 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Pape's Diapepsin belps lsgbmarine was always com from ty, just eat a tablet of} : viel ' | } . until Seapa Flow was im-| & thorough quthartic, a gentle laza~ jothers, it was determined to avoid---to 'for $3.50, at all dealers, brought in, repaired in a short time,!pregnably protected by booms and |tive. ' : > § 4 y i her bleached-out appearanee with h tive organs, and may lead to cons errozone, mmption. It impairs the taste, smel and hearing, asd affects the volee. 1 ts a constitutional diseass and red quires a constitutional remedy. § ne rete Take Hood's Sarsapariils, ichi Hafety On the High Seas. - | by purifying the blood removes th | The simple fect is that the battle] cause of the diséase and gives per {fleet 'was never so safe as when it was! manent relief. This ; and; olde {much preferred to attack their mer- ¢ 'chan LE sr to the crews of the danger + § + $ 'chant prey in zreas where these scul | ricking depth charges did not inter "ou don't want a slow remedy] distress is gone fore with their operations. when your stomach is bad---or an un- Millions of people know the magic ------ ertain one--or a harmful one--|of Pape's Diapepsin as au antacid. | The Battle Fleet Entirely Immuned. your stomach is too valuable: you! They know that indigestion and dis-| It is ¢ becom 1 mustn't injure it with drastic drugs. | ordered stomach sie needless. The lat a} ming Appatent why neutralize the stomach acids 50 ¥ou (do the one thing, which, * Pape's Diapepsin and the stomach | can eet without fear. : = x .

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