Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — Baits for U-Boats. [ARTICLE]

Baits for U-Boats.

Captain Campbell and his associates of the British mystery ship Dunraven paid as much attention to details in their ships as in their personal appearance. The ship’s wash did not expose the flannels that are affected by naval men, but the dungarees that are popular with merchant sailors. Sometimes a side of beef would be hung out in plain view ; this not only kept up the fiction that the ship was an innocent tramp, but it served as a tempting bait to the not too well fed crew of die submarine. Particularly tempting cargoes were ocasionally put on deck. One of the ships carried several papier-mache freight cars of the small European type, covered with legends which Indicated that they were loaded with ammunition and bound for Mesopotamia. It is easy to Imagine how eagerly the Hun would wish to sin'r that rargo.—Admiral Sims In the World’s Work.