THE COOLEST DEED ge of the dogs, rare -- OF THE WAR eA 2 'are apie ASTOUNDING STORY OF NERVE AND RESOURCE. Fy a Man Imprisoned Fathoms Deep in a Sunken British Submarine. The most amazing story of this amazing war has just been told. It is a tale of stark courage and dour cleer-headedness in the face of the, grimmest ordeal, by a stoker in a British submarine sunken fathoms deep, and it has been related by writer who has obviously gleaned his facts from official news. In point of fact, the story is well known in naval circles, though ét has never been pub- lished in detail - before. No writer could do justice to this tale so con- vincingly as the hero himself, a stoker whose highly technical, fact report needs no journalistic em- phasis. His First Impulse. "At 10.80 a.m. on Tuesday," he states, 'something was heard to come in contact with the boat forward, twice.in quick succession. . . . I pro- ceeded forward to ascertain the posi- tion of the leak. Finding no leak above the batcery-board, I came to the conclusion that she was holed low down. My first impulse was to close the lower conning-tower hatch, and get a pressure in the boat, but the men were then going up the conning! tower in the hope of escape. I put on a lifebelt, and closed the valve on the | air-trunk through the engine-room) bulkhead, as at this time I thought , I would have . use the engine-room as a way of escape. "T then Natutned to try to close the lower conning-tower hatch, but before I reached it water began to come down through it and the engine-room | | | | | bulkhead scupper, so I shouted to - hands forward to come aft to the en-| gine-room. There was re-| sponse. . . | All hands were dead except tis) cool-headed, iron-nerved stoker petty-! officer, who had not the slightest 4 tention of making the same finish. H was an engineer who knew every cant | bolt, and gadget of his boat, and he had a mind infinitely fertile in re-| source. His explanation of what he did is highly technical in spots, and; bristling with conscientious details. It makes it difficult to realize that he was laboring for his life in a flooded! submarine at the bottom of the North! Sea, with a crew of dead men and no more than one chance in a thousand of survival. : Juggling With Death. "Tt was impossible for me to leave! the engine-room door," he goes of explain, "as it would have closed be- | hind me, and would have been im-' possible to open again, owing to in- crease of pressure in the flooding compartment. I remained there, still hoping that some of the men = come aft, until] the water rose to eighteen inches above the sill of the door, and chlorine gas began to come through from the midship compart- ment. I was then reluctantly forced to close the door, and proceeded to unscrew the clips of the torpedo-hatch nbove me as the only hope of escape through the deck. At. this juncture the engine-room was in complete darkness, with the exception of the port pilot lamp. "The water was slowly rising in the engine-room through the voice pipes, which I had left open to relieve i ssure on the bulkheads. The heat at this time w excessive, and therefore I rested a while, and considered the best means of flooding the engine-room." A Great Ordeal. This captive, penned like a rat ina trap, tried one expedient after an- other, cach one failing him in turn-- a refractory torpedo-hatch, impossible caps and traps, nuts that refused to budge--and yet he was undismayed and stubbernly resolute, splashing in the gloom to a place where ha could "consider the problem once more." He returned to the hatch, crawling on top of the engines, in order to strug- gle with the exhaust and induction valves, using a spanner for a tool. This he had thoughtfully picked up in the engine-room before it was flood- ed. Hammering away at the fasten- ings, he knocked out one pin, but was unable to remove the other. He then dived under water and eased the wheel of the gearing, which sounds like a ticklish bit of work in itself, and bobbed up again to find that ha could now drive out the remaining | pin. go | have always held the theory," he | { | | as Bays, 'that the pressure in a sunken, cked vessel can be greater than } pressure, the deciding - the weight and shane of i hull. I now discovered that the boat was flooding very slow- ly, and as a last resource I decided to open the scupper in the engine-room bulkhead. I anticipated chlorine gas generating from this water, which' proved to be th. case. Also, as the, \ eter ¢ame, in, the air was escaping thro: ich the hatch. So I tried three' times to open the hatch, and succeed- raising it about half-way, but the 'air rushed out, and the hatch fell down again. So then I dived down, and retrieved the clip-bolts, and ship- ped two of them, and lightly secured» vA ot and being picked up by H.M. into cceniton: The hatch flew open. but there wag not enough préssure to blow me out, nor yet time for me to escape beford the hatch came down again. I tried once more to lift the hatch with my shoulder, but it de- seconded upon my hand. I managed to raise the hatch and. free.-my-- hand, which was quite badly smashed. I now concluded that it was impossible attempt to blow myself out by means of internal pressure. "T allowed the engine-room to flood until the water was up to the coam- ing of the hatch. I then raised up the hatch and escaped, rising to the Ey e > ° s This indomitable toker petty- officer floated out through the square hatch-opening, after letting the com- partment fill to the roof, and was picked up unconscious. The comment of the officer commanding the fio- tilla sums up one of the most won- derful feats in the whole story of submarine warfare: "Although the man was fighting for his life, it is a wonderful example of unfaltering courage and persever- ance, and of refusing to acknowledge defeat. He was by himself, in almost complete darkness, receiving electric shocks, and towards the end, suffer-'! ing from the effects of chlorine gas! and a crushed hand; and yet, in spite of continual disappointments, he worked on for nearly two hours, keep- ing his head to the last; and at the seventh attempt at opening the hatch | he succeeded, and oe ed." The | Captain's Garden. His e many spring that the French were tired war. that the wi and that unless powerfu IDEA OF suRREnDER 1s ALIEN |, TO THEIR SOUL. -- Every Soldier Willing to go to Cer- tain Death Because Life is Dedi- eated to Country. Two years ago the world .was pee € A year ago Canada was told French nation was bled waite; that it could hold up its end n the great war only a short bps re- inforcements were sent to the battle front and new spirit injected into the French the war would end with Ger- many the conqueror, says a war cor- respondent. I have been fortunate enough to see a great deal of the French people and the French soldiers during the st few months and I think I under- stand why France has been able to bear the brunt of the war and why France will continue to held her place in the very front line until the Hun s defeated Surrender is a word as foreign to the vocabulary of the French poilv as it was to the Old Guard of Napoleon. The spirit of surrender is as alien to the soul of France as it was to the life of ancient Greece. that Germany. will be defeated. has never doubted it. as confident when slaughtering hundreds of thousands France knows She She was just the Hun was of his own men and soldiers of France }as she is to-day when her line has pe n extended to the north to be pre-. ared for any new ouataeere the. garden blooms as it was wont to. German may under s for fighting, ie suit does not et to be told of the fighting quali- 8 | And still, amid the Shree pu and the. ties of the French. Neither does the b H 00 A linnet sings. | But he will again These borders trim, To comfort through the sunshine. or the rain Our grief for him. And yet his presence seems so warm and near his quiet place, | That we omg loved him feel less lone- ey As if ashe brooded on each budding flow His tenderness, As if his spirit o'er each bird filled Ww ' never plant and tend! y her A little space. tae diwit be Shien: me it. But they all know it. This ee 4 "Men who, serving in' the Prayer For Courage. exuberance and joy of youth; men big should -I long for what I know | who believe in human equality; men Can never be revealed te inet who vision idealism and justice and T only pray that I may gr strive to bring it about; men who As sure and bravely as a a tess now rest in the grave--we salute I do not ask why tireless grief Remains or why all beauty flies; I only crave the blind relief Of branches groping toward skies. 0 the 1 L Let me bring every seed to fruit, Sharing, whatever comes to pass, The strong persistence of the root, The patient courage of the grass. Heartened by every source of mirth, . I shall not mind the wounds and i scars, i Feeling the solid strength of earth, y The bright ¢ cor ction of the stars who is not willing to go death any time, because he believes his life belongs to France and France is living for generations come. weeks on the plains of Picardy they had learned a special prayer. , of peace ut home, your iy ' places and that we us are ready is pay the price of ran- un. I have seen German. prisoners freshly captured who say that Ger- many has been astounded at the vigor of the French; that the army authori- ties are vexed almost to the point of | hysteria over the constant appearance of the French when the Hun feels he s just on the threshold of victory. Willing to Face Certain Death. You can't find a single Frenchman to certain that to Before the French went into battle which raged for mme and on the They don't know who you! "You gave your all coyrageously to repulse an evil that was thrust upon all, your life hopes and You did all this before And now since this monster evil ur France, your very our dreams. IB. "rance's strength, we take your asking when will those living ; e perm itted to live. the earth? vut we do know and here promise you hat you have not died in vain, that | acrifice w an empty thing, | maa these coming after | eturn to our as not som for the future of your sons and A Scotch colonel tells an norm ours and to come succession after story wherein the chief figure was a us, ise you, dead com- young subaltern of his own national-. rades e - of France in the ity. The latter was one day on guar i name ¢ 'ist. Ament!" with another officer at alt the simple pray on the lips of, when the other fell off a precipice nearly every se who took his and was killed. The subaltern, how- " > in latter ever, made no mention of the accident in his guard report, but left the i dendum, "Nothing extraordinary sint guard mounting," standing wit thont qualification. Some hours afte rd the General came to demand e) f ations. as the "You say, sir, in thing extraordinary mounting,' when your has fallen down a ro feet deep ar id has been "General,' slowly, 3s om thing extraordinary in that. If he had faun doon a precipice 400 feet deep and not been killed, I should ha' thocht it extraordinary, and put it doon in ma reepoort." Pp j your report, * since fellow y pre -cipice it killed!' cky The Function of Marrow. A writer in the London Lancet pat gests that marrow has twofel function, not only to nourish the notion f , but to supply a most important in- | d ternal secretion, As bearing this d out, he cites the mortality of 98 per s cent. in "primary" cases of amputa- h tion high up the thigh when the f stern fig other parephernal i utur Without Sleep. Junk afte he Hi uD had begun his' t the French March 21 I saw f French trucks, evitias and every of war trailing rom all directions to the point where anger lay. I saw French camion rivers who had not had a'wink of, leep for forty hours; teamsters who | ad been sitting exposed to the rain! or two days and nights, going about ply wagons a patient is in the prime of life, with their task just as cheerfully as if they " "secondary" cases in which the mor- tality is only 60 per cent. In the sec-,; t ondary cases, where a diseased condi-| tion has existed for some time, there © {s less shock, according to the writer, | ¢ i hegguse the system has become grad- | , 0 ualfy accustomed to aering without the marrow in the total amount #n all the bones. it ------+- Winnin the food Towallty and food sacrifice of | the people, were on a holiday. They were going, o help France. France needed them In an officers' club in a certain part f France there was an _ orchestra; omposed of French soldiers who were They ee hae called an easy sector. aon ng Rey bad Ny working hard for mohths. or singe Tee who is| bone, which contains one-sixth of the | ; well, known fn ail the cities of ioe ithe pee usually. every evening, clad in ough private's uniform. But one the way rests inSpart on ey l erenine the orchestra and the re in fl wete gone. Bo weré the wi | Girl s had taken their places, . They left in i ae a to , pk dmal' setteee ee eee 'were on way North too. 1 -- French station mastef They nr re on leave," he said, "but they-ought to go to their ents now that the big battle is and they are all going before their leaves are over." Nation Tuned Up For War. "How such a spirit could survive after a nation has for nearly four 'owe the rant ara tion is tuned Nothing energy else is thought of. Not a whee! turns in the entire country except to make something which is needed for war. In nee there is not a single pleas- ure automobile. There is no gayety. The civil population is subjecting it- self to hardships which it hopes are just as trying as those of the men are bearing arms. ff the war ends this year France will be happy. If the war continues five years France will still be giving the same demonstration of self-sacri- fice and loyalty she has been giving for the last three years and a half. It ig only the short sighted who be- lieve the reports which one time were prevalent--that France was PER '| the cylinder are smaller threads, and When will right , hours, We know not,| have swollen to twice their ordinary Jesty. | | March | j | Journal, Prof. W. }appear in a mysterious manner. | investigation resulted in the surpris- ijng discovery that the ready to quit--that she was wearied ; to the point of surrender. France is ; jst as virile to-day as she ever was. She is ready to-day to make the same | sm@erifices she made at the Marne, 'the Somme and Verdun, but she! knows she will never have to do so. You might drive or walk for two! hundred miles through any part civilian except elderly men, boys, in- | valids or cripples. is im the army. promising in the spring sunshine. Not | a foot of soil is being neglected. The | "old folks" who had finished their life's. toil and settled down in their! little village home to watch their grandchildren grow up have put on the yoke again. _---- i nner "BREAD WITHOUT FLOUR. = Used in France to Change ! - Wheat Directly Into Dough. aa: Brance bread has without fi been made machine that nee our thread running in an opposite direc- tion. Between the main threads on the depth of the groove becomes pro- gressively smaller from one end to the other, s0 that it will hold the en- tire Wheat grain as jt enters the ma-, chine, at the same time accommodat- ing only the pulverized wheat at the exit. The wheat is prepared by a thor- ough washing, after which operation demands more blood, more life, more | about a pint of tepid water to a pound of grain is added, the whole mixture being allowed to stand for some six Then the grairs of ion treated poured between 1| size. e mixture is then with yeast and salt and is into the machine. It falls the threads-of the moving screw | which simultaneously crush the en- velop and body of the grain, making of them a homogeneous mixture that forms a smooth paste. Bread made by this iins a succession of holes w increases as they approach the crust, 'which is thin. The odor given of is said to be most agreeable. | | | Pp oc 'S38 con se S$ize An Idea Werth Trying Milwaukee a natur- says the E. Ringle, alist of Pittsburg, Kansas, discovered jin. a Kansas creek a' bladderwort, a plant that is usually found in more northern streams. He took it t is 'Jaboratory and placed it in a js contained several thousand very tadpoles, in order to aerate the ter and do away with the necessity of changing it so often. The tadpeles quickly began to dis- An 4 Not long ago, wa emall balloons on the plant were traps and tombs) for the tadpoles. The plant had de- youred them. If it would consume tadpoles, there is no reason why' it should not devour "wiggle-tails," the larvae of the mosquito, the naturalist thinks. One way of ridding a com- munity of mosquitoes, therefore, ap- pears to be to propagate the bladder- wort in pools and sirekina. lent tur- Savory stews Orovide an' exce! means of using carrots, onions, nips and potatoes. Potatoes give you the salts you t need to build and renew all parts of say that the tired-out feel- 'ing-- Nasring,. fever"--often comes pe a lack of fruits and vegetables. Do aoe Ject double zinnias, both. dwarf varieties. Sow) ion of the newer varieties in. ee i er than the old oe var- | | THE 'ent of the. Pall Mall Gazette, that if: y best, ae sacr: ig all, Ascend the bei fr pol which thou | shalt not fall! e, Erin, come! Come, Erin, 'Break from the Galera 'bala, the Be thine own noblest self, pat win ia bate triumph that shall When Wer 8 cos haudetteeke| have rolled awa And Right shade Light upon the world's new D: wi ame Thy highest nature or thy holiest nam Come, Erin, come! Come, Erin, come! Heed not the babbler's tongue, rebel's lie-- Take thou thy place With nations armed to conquer or to die! the Glory and grace Be with fy 08 ba thy coming! 'Tis hit of lafiat destiny and immortal | pow j sai thyself great In pardon for old wrongs and stings of fate Come, Erin, come! Come, Erin. come! The heavens are all a-fire with watch-! ing. eyes ent upon thee iW aiting the splendor of thy golden | rise, Star of the sea! j ing sons | And set thy Harp to thunder of the guns In song sublime Ringing a fame. unto the ends of Tim Come; Erin, come! --Maurie Corelli. -- --4 PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR 'An Amusing Story Regarding the King and Queen of Italy. The Italian sovereign might well be called the Harun-el-Rashid of Italy,: so diverting are the adventures that befall him when he appears unexpect- | edly in his own dominions. It is safe) to sa Rome. correspond- | he came to the gates of a French city' with the Queen in an automobile he' would at once be recognized, although | in his own Lucca he is not always. The King and Queen Elena, the other day, having outdistanced an- other motor car with their suite, were brought to a standstill at the gate of Luéta by one of the octroi guards. To the question whether he had any- thing contrabrand, the King replied in the negative; but the guard was not satisfied, and pointed to the three small bags, and asked King Victor to onen one. "Impossible!" declared His Ma- with an amused smile. "My wife's maid has the keys." Meanwhile the chauffeur had shown signs of great uneasiness, making faces and gesticulating furtively to let the man understand whom he had to deal with; but the guard thought that the signs Sagar the King's refusal, meant that ther smuggling going on. At Iast, , patience, he turned to the chanffeur. "Speak! speak!** he said angrily. "What are you making faces about? with e@ Was losing It will not prevent me from doing my duty! That valise taust be open- ed before you leave! "Quit e sight," said the King, "but-- The chauffe 'ur, unable to contain himself any longer, sputtered: "Fool, can " you see that it is the King?" As they went on ed to the King. Queen Elena turn- 3nt, Vietor," she said witha laugh, "if you had opened the bag they might re seized that---" But w guards might have found was lost. | in the toot! toot! of the horn. ~~ The Red-Handed Saint. "Remember, further, that you are merely the stewards of your cwn gifts and talents. They are aia to be used for your own advantage, or the satisfaction of your own ambi ition, but for the glory of Go vice of humanity. Seek to sery 1 fellow men, to gladden their s to rejoice with them, for there is no- thing more beautiful than this. afiod has put you into the world to do certain \ neement His cause oe felicity of His creatures. He has supplied you with the health, strength, talent and gifts necessary for your appointed Iabor Be fully' assured of that, Strive, therefore, to accomplis h that which | Heaven expects of you, and great will be your reward." The foregoing pious , taken from a sermon deli: tes tyyett nyu Kaiser in the days of peace, uron th> | occasion of he his sons. % ates this limb of Mephi: "top heles. a 'erew of twenty men, tas ote : ENEMY LAND SHIPS CAME OFF SECOND BEST. New Fast Cruiser Type Rolled Up German Line tn Recent Picardy Engagement. German tanks which made their first appearance on the western front during the recent German offensive came off second best in their encoun- ters with the more powerful and bet- ter managed British tanks, says 2 London correspondent. Full accounts have just reached the British General Staff here of the first pitched battle between German and British tanks, in which a squadron of six German land ships was routed completely by the Britieh. The battle occurred on April 24 near Villers- Bretonneux, south of the Somme in Picardy Six German tanks appeared in front of the British line shortly before noon and started to roll up the flanks of the British infantry positions. A call for help was sent to the nearest British tank camp and a squadron, including both and "female" tanks shortly appeared on the scene. A rough and tumble combat ensued. "Female" Tanks Outfought. The British female tanks, which ap- | pearel first, were outfought, but the arrival of the heaver male tanks completely changed the situation and ithe Germans fled after receiving a bad beating. Meanwhile the British had brought lup seven of the new fast cruiser type, called "Whippet tanks," which de- acid and attacked thé enemy's in- adi positions on a ridge, rolling the German line from the north. of | France and you would not see a single | | Face thou the foe with all thy fight- | tt developed that this ridge was held by a line of machine gun posts, while | beyond the crest a large German | force was massing in the open for an attack. The Whippets ran from shell i hole to shell hole, inflicting terrible ' easualties and complete! y disorganiz- ing the enemy's preparations for at- tack. These seven tanks, each with a full than four hundred casualties on enemy in this engagement, while the ensualties on board the tanks were only five men. The tanks left their base shortly before noon and were back at their base again by 3 o'clock in the ions ritish Machine Success. An tea of the General ct om-this enga ent : Associated Press, ae se othe British tank has. justified it- ; self. The Germans have adopted them, but there is yet no evidence that ' they have any larger number avail- able. With the start which we have in tank construction we should be able to preserve our superiority with- out difficulty. "The results of our employment of tanks are most encourageing in view of the man power question and we ought to derive still more benefit from them in the future." On the Western Front, Sons of Britain! Hold them in your grip of steel, With the courage of the bulldog that has heen thy nation's weal; Stand fast in all thy glory on the bloodstained fields of France, Let not defeat discourage, your vie- tories they'll enhance. Sons Bie Scotia! Hold them; we are tching from afar Wel have read of you at Ypres, we know just what you are; Your blood you'll shed like water, asking nothing back; But to do vour share of fighting be- ath the Union Jack. ons Erin! Hold them; when thting to be done , there in the thicke You s > you are there whe Wor Heed not the fals hat ana heaped upon y Emblazoned on the scroHs of fame, } ur honored dead, behold yo need and answers t Ifold them! We are Justice strikes Fr ¥) ' ote ie A Poet's P pepe cy. For Id Saw vens. fi argosies of magic Pilots of the pt 9 wn pie! co the he and the re rained shouting, stly dew with a gha From the nation's siry navies grap- in the centr al blue; world-wide whisper of nunderstorm; ¢ um throbb'd no longer, an nl ghe battle-flags were furled, in the Parliament of man, the Feder- ation of the world, From "Locksley Hall," by Alfred Tennyson.