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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917

WARSHIP ELUDES U-BOAT TORPEDO ONLY SIX FEET Correspondent Tells How De- ' stroyers Act After Alarm is 1 Given.

' A SRITISH PORT ON SOUTH

EAST COAST. Wednesday, June 27. I (By Mall.) Just how a British de

stroyer acts when attacked by a sub marine was unexpectedly demonstrat ed to an Associated Press correspond-

ent today while traveling on one of

the modern oil driven torpedo boat ap ' stroyers from England to France.

The correspondent had been taken aboard the destroyer for the purpose

of observing British Methods of com

batting the submarine mtenace, when

the boat was suddenly attacked by a submarine, a torpedo missing it by a

scant 6lx feet, thanks to the vigilance

- and quick action of the crew. Convoying Big Transports.

v The destroyer was one of a certain ' number which were convoying in the ' usual manner some large transports

- carrying British troops to France. The group of ships was half way

across the channel when suddenly one ' of the lookouts saw a pair of twin perir ' scopes rise for a moment a few inches

out of the water a hair mile away.

They were gone the next instant, but almost before they had gone came the

shout: "Submarine on port bow," ac

companied by a shrill call of warning

from the destroyers whistle and uie

. fluttering out of the flag which notified every other ship in the convoy of

the enemy's presence. . On every ship things began to happen, more quickly than the telling. Guns were swung In the direction from which the peciscopes had been seen ready to speak if the periscope appear-

ed again. Tordedo tubes like wise

were swung into line, and the numerAna ant4.DiihmnHna riavipea Inn ripek

were in the hands of their skilled ex

pert crews. Seen from Deck But even while this was being done came the torpedo, clearly seen from

. the deck, its gleaming brass body glistening in the bright sunlight, its

piUpcliUJa Bf3HUAU& Jb O-l, CAlta warn speed straight toward the destroyer. Something was wrong with the mechanism of this particular torpedo for 4 uKaiiM Y a V a traveller! wMva nr

. fifteen feet below the surface. In- . stead it came bounding along in plain sight, now and then leaping out of the

water, like a flat stone made to skip over the surface. . Even thus. It might have found its target but for, the presence of mind of the sixty-year-old coxswain. Ho had been first to sight the periscopes, and had rushed immediately to an emergency lever whereby he Instantly stopped the port engine, thus swinging the ship with a lurch to the left. The torpedo whizzed through the water six feet behind the stern of the destroyer, Its gradually lessening 6peed as it sank into the swirl of the engines indicating that its possibility for mischief was nearly done. Would Mave Made Hit Except for the coxswain's action in twisting the ship from its course, the missile would apparently have made a square hit in the stern magazine. Meanwhile, the wireless was at work notifying the hundreds of patrols in all directions that the enemy was near. "We sighted a submarine on the port bow, just off blank buoy 2:03 p.m.

Torpedo passed just behind our stern missing us. We are proceeding with our convoy," said the captain's message. It was given simultaneously ashore and afloat by a hundred vigilant wireless operators. The destroyer's captain, according to his orders, must noe leave his convoy to seek out and attack the U-boat. Others would attend to that. Already they were gathering for the chase trawlers, chasers, drifters, destroyers, even a dirigible air ship had caught the wireless call and. with the quick turn of a sea gull, was swooping down to the pursuit. All Precautions Taken The transports and destroyers, although fairly confident that the Uboat would scarcely dare show herself again, even for a pot-shot were nevertheless taking every precaution. Every ship was at full speed, oil burning destroyers constantly protecting their charges.

The whole attack occupied bare sec

onds. Convoy and charges were out of range in a few minutes at the most. Nowhere had there been the slightest

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"It Is the law," TasrainI answered in a voice "that rang with pride and insolence, "that none Interrupt me while I speak! For such ill-mannered ones Earth's Drink hungers! Wijl you test my authority, Muhammad Anim?" The mullah sat down, and hundreds of men laughed at him, but not all of the men by any means. "It is the law that none goes out of Khinjan Caves alive who breaks the law of the Caves. But he broke no very big law. And he spoke trutfi.

Think ye! If that head had only fall-

in his hurry to get back to his place, and Ismail overtook him. seized him by the shoulders, hugged him, and dragged him to the empty seat next to the Orakzai Pathan. There he hugged him until his ribs cracked. "Ready o' wit!" he crowed. "Ready o' tongue! Light o' life! Man after mine own heart! Hey, I love thee! Readily I would be thy man, but for being hers! Would I had a son like thee ! Fool fool fool not to throw to the head to them! Squeamish one! Man like a child. What is the head but earth -when the life has left it?

en into Muhammad Anim's lap, the What would thy head be without the

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mullah might have smuggled in an

other man with it!" A roar of laughter greeted that thrust Many men who had not laughed at the mullah's first discomfiture joined in now. Muhammad Anim sat and fidgeted, meeting nobody's eye And answering nothing. "So it seems to me good," Yasminl said, in a voice that did not echo any more but rang very clear and true (she seemed to know the trick of the roof, and to use the echo or not as she chose), "to let this hakim live! He shall meditate in his cave a while, and perhaps he shall be beaten, lest he dare offend again. He can no more escape from Khinjan Caves than the women who are prisoners here. He may therefore live!" ' There was utter silence. Men looked at one another and at her, and her blazing eyes searched the crowd swiftly. It was plain enough that there were at least two parties there, and that none dared oppose Yasmini's will for fear of Jhe others. "To thy seat, Kurram Khan!" she ordered, when she had waited a .full minute and no man spoke. He wasted no time. He hurried out of the arena as fast as he could walk, with Ismail and Darya Khan close at his heels. It was like a run out of danger in a dream. He stumbled over the legs of the front-rank men

panic or flurry, but movements of men and ships were made with almost automatic precision and speed. The efficiency of the British naval man is the efficiency of clockwork. Every cog knows its place. There is no meddling, no clashing, no interference, but a confident rapid efficiency which somehow demands the use of the adjective "deadly." Twenty minutes later the transports were safe in their port of destination and the destroj'er convoy was off again, thirty miles an hour, down the coiist, to its next appointment. Meanwhile, the business of seeking out the enemy was going on in the fleet of submarine hunters which had gathered around "blank buoy." Just how the work was done and just what was the result it is not permitted to tell.

nimble wit? Fool fool fool! And

clever! Turned the joke on Muhammad Anim! Turned it on Bull-with-a-beard in a twinkling in the bat of an eye in a breath. Turned it against her enemy and raised a laugh against hjm from his own men! Ready o' wit. Shameless one! Lucky one! Allah was surely good to thee!" Still exulting, he let go, but none too soon for comfort King's ribs

were sore from his hugging for days. '.'What is it?" he asked. For King seemed to be .shaping words with his lips. He bent a great hairy ear to listen. "Have they taken Ali Masjid Fort?" King whispered. - "How should I know? Why?" "Tell me, man, if you love me! Have they taken it?" "Nay, how should I know? Ask her, She knows . more than any man knows!" King turned to ask the same question of his friend the Orakzai Pathan; but the Pathan would have none of his questions, he was busy listening for whispers from the crowd, watching with both eyes, and he shoved King aside. The crowd was very far from being satisfied. An. angry murmur had begun to fill the cavern as a hive is filled with the song of bees at swarming time.' But even so, surmise what one might it was not easy to persuade the eye that Yasmini's careless smile . and easy poise were assumed. If she recognized indignation and feared it, she disguised her fear amazingly. King saw her whisper to a guard. The fellow nodded and passed tis shield to another man. He began to- make his way in no great hurry toward the edge of the arena. She whispered again and standing forward with their trumpets seven of the guards blew a blast that split across the cavern like a trump of doom; and as its hundred thousand echoes died in the roof, the hum of voices died, too, and the very

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sound of breathing. The gurgling of water became as if the river flowed in solitude.. Leisurely then, languidly, she raised both arms until she looked like an angel poised for flight The little jewels stitched to her gauzy dress twinkled like fireflies as she moved. -The crowd gasped sharply. She had it by the heart-strings. She called,. and four guards got under one shield, bowing their heads and resting the great rim on their shoulders. They carried it beneath her and stood still. With a low delicious laugh, sweet and true, she sprang on it, and the shield scarcely trembled; she seemed lighter than the 6ilk her dress was woven from! They carried her so, looking as if she and the shield were carved of a piece, and by a master such as has not often been. And in the midst of the arena before they had ceased moving she began to sing, with her head thrown back and bosom swelling like a bird's. The East would ever rather draw its own conclusions from a hint let fall than be puzzled by what. the West believes are facts. And par ables are not good evidence in courts of law, which is always a consideration. So her song took the form of a parable. . To be continued

Much-Wedded Piper Sent to Front Line

BOSTON, July 26. mes Cameron, a bag-piper with the McLean Kilties of Newi Brunswick, . today in police court here was sentenced to service in the front lihe when his regiment goes into action as punishment for his confessed polygamy. He will be assigned to a bombing squad.

GEORGE MANNING APPOINTED PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL IN PANAMA CANAL ZONE

George A. Manning, of Ecenomy, Ind., has received notice of his appointment by the United States government as principal of a high school

Japan and Italy are the lands of the earth most shaken by earthquakes. Each of these has suffered over 27,000 6hocks in a record kept fifty years. Africa and Australia have the fewest 179 and 83, but it is thought that many minor shocks in these two continents

have escaped notice from the lack of j

sensitive instruments.

in the Panama Canal zone,-according to friends of Manning living in Richmond,. Wednesday. Manning is well known in Richmond.

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