The Monmouth herald., September 21, 1917, Image 5

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'tween shots to mute ft hard for the
Cmmana tn lK'Bf iih from the flush nf
the guns. Our engines, with the muf
flers open to give us oil possible speed,
are roaring almost as loudly as the
cannon it seems.
The Boehes must be confused. They
haven't fired on us yet Searchlights
are darting everywhere across the wa
ter and in the sky. Their one object
is to find and destroy us, but they can
not figure out what to look for. They
of course think we have come in
through the channel, and their power-'
' ful rays sweep the entrance to the
harbor and the waters just hi side,
. while others play over the surface
from whence we fired our first shots.
They don't expect craft of our size to
attempt such a daring raid,
i How much damage we have done
we do not know, but we cease firing
and double back, watting until we are
out of the (Due from which we start
ed to fight
I do not suppose any of the Huns
ever thought of the little motor launch
es. They seem Jumpy in their nerves,'
Judging by the way they handle the
searchlights. Probably they think
some new engine of warfare is attack
ing them, like the tanks which go sur
prised them in the trenches one tine
1 day.
Umph! Suddenly 1 am blinded. I
( think for a hundredth of a second that
I am shot, "and my bead is splitting. It
is a searchlight, the rays full and
square in my eyes. The gunuer fires
Into the source of the light It seems
to be coming from a gunboat If he
hits her he will I lucky, for it is Im
possible for us to see anything.
We can be;.r the "woomph-woomph"
of shells dropping into the water
around us. We have made up our
minds that it is all over, but two of
the other boats, not being blinded by
the searchlights, turn their fire on our
tormentor. If the Germans hold on
us we are gone, but they seem to be
In a frenzy, and while they sweep
round, trying to pick up the other craft
we change our course, and they do not
seem able to find us again. They fire
on every stick of driftage and spar
that darkens the surface of the Il
luminated water.
Out Over the Danger of the Yinei.
When the rising sun began to screak
the sky we were safe. Way off to port
lay the monitor we had passed the
t night before, and the Brass Hat In
command of the expedition, signaled
us to run over to her and take ac
count '
The monitor was one of a type mnch
In evidence during the first years of
the warmountlrfg beavy,guns forward
In an armored turret Tue guns were
made in America, and most of the
monitors were named after American
generals.
They were used on work that took
them constantly Into the mine fields,
aud for that reason they must have
special protection against mines and
torpedoes. Just how this is accom
plished I do not feel at liberty to tell,
but because of It an amusing Incident
occurred. The first motor' launch was
roiCW at rather low speed In toward
the monitor, so as to come alongside.
All of a sudden we saw her sort of
climb out of the water, bow first, heel
over and lie there as though she had
run up on a bnr.
A couple of "matloes" (sailors) on
the deck of the monitor began swear
ing at the crew, and every man In the
M. L. was thrown off his feet by the
shock which stopped the boat The
swearing was not confined to the mon
itor's men. Tito M. L. had run high
and dry on to the shelf which forms
a part of the more or less Intricate
protection agalust torpedoes and mines
that modern monitors carry. They had
to use a crane to get her off.
Well, we had roll call and found
only one man slightly hurt. A bit of
shell had struck him in the shoulder.
A piece the size of a man's palm was
imbedded In the side of one of the
M. L.'s. We had got off mighty lucky.
I might sar here that later six oth
er lioats made the experiment again,
and only one got back to England, si
It Isn't such a soft assignment In
that slnjrle craft were all the men
from the five launches who had sur
vived the hell they ran Into. And
there was plenty of room, for those
who had been lost were many.
Under orders the survivors of that
raid refrained from telling what ao
rually happened, but In general It Is
true that the Germans must have re
alized what occurred on the first expe
dition, and they were ready. The ele
ment of surprise, which saved us all
from going to kingdom come, was ab
sent The officer tn command of the one
which was not destroyed cruised
around In the glare of the searchlights
until he had gathered In every living
thine that still strugpled In the water
a man's job In that searching glare of
light and ball of shells.
The Hero.
"The sky was red over his head,"
said one of the men be picked up,
"because of the vast number of illu
minating bomlts and rocket the Huns
were using, besides the searchlights
and the shells 'that were bursting.
There was light enough to take a mor
lng i'ietrje of the scene
"Xnf human "being1 would have run,
but that chap's a devil or a god. He
shouted orders to his men as though
he were at maneuvers and fished us
out of the water with a boat hook as
coolly as If be were merely picking up
a buoy and couldn't understand what
all the racket was about
"After he got me on board I saw
fclm full with the blood spurting from
his leg. He grabbed a bit of rope,
made a tourniquet himself, using the
barrel of his revolver to twist it tight
and directed the work until be had all
of us on board.
"How we ever penetrated that bar
rier of fire and lead and steel I don't
know, but we came through and limp
ed Into port under our own power."
As I say, I was not on this expedi
tion, and what few details other than
those I heard I am not at liberty to
tell
Well, to go back to the monitor. We
all went aboard and were given break
fast. In the ward room one of the
officers told us some Interesting things
about their work.
"These tubs," ha explained, referring
to the monitors, "are not armored. We
carry heavy guns forward, and the bar
bette Is the only part of the craft that
Is protected by armor plate,
"All along the coast we have buoys
anchored to mark fire positions. We
cruise along, pick up one of the buoys
and let go a few shots. Of course we
know the range and where the German
forts and batteries are, although we
can't see them. 8ometlmes we have
hydroplanes observing; for us, so that
we can tell whether we're on the tar
get, but we have been doing It so long
and we have the coast so well plotted
and the buoys so carefully planted that
it's mostly a matter of mathematics.
"It's all very Impersonal. We drop
a few shells Into a harbor or fort, then
move on to a new position and drop a
few more. "-
"The Germans don't seem to have
any planes along the coast here, and
they aren't able to reply with any ac
curacy whatever, for tliey can't see ds,
as we always r" ' 5y with a slight
mist or bar-1 ' at night
"But the other day we dropped down
the coast for a little party,' when all
of a sudden, after our first shot, a
shell plumped into the water Just be
yond us. We let go another, and the
second German shell fell just a little
short Both were in line.
"We thought It was luck, to we mov
ed to a new position. The same thing
happened, only this time one shell
came on board and did some damage
and hurt some of our crew. Of course
we thought the Hons must have some
planes .ujj flying lh batteries .our
range, but we couldn't spot" one any
where. This sort of thing kept up all
moruhig until it became positively un
canuy. The day was heavy with fog,
making aerial observation dltBcutt
How the Germans Got the Range.
"Then an officer who had been an
observer In the Russo-Japanese war
explained it The Japanese had used
a system at Tort Arthur to locate
ome hidden Russian batteries that this
chap said the Germans must be em
ploying, and I guess he was right In
fact we know now that he was. How
we confirmed our original opinion I
cannot tell.
"Every one familiar with the princi
ples of artillery fire knows that a shell
does not travel In a straight line. It
travels in a curve called the trajectory.
Elevate a gun of a given calilicr to a
certain angle and fire It and the tra
jectory will always be practically the
Aftar Our Firat 8hot a Shell Plumped
Into the Wafer Just Beyond Us.
same. The curve varies constantly,
becoming steeper as the velocity of
the shell decreases and It begins to
be affected more and more by gravity.
The Mathematics of It.
"Now, what the Germans bad done
was this. They erected a aeries of
gauze screens at least three between
us and a battery which we were ac
customed to shell, To hit the target
our. shelW-m"". f"1 . thmn"h tV-p
screens. ElerIcar'tTmlng'devl(;esThdT
cated the length of time the projectile
required to travel between the screens,
and of course the distance waa already
kuown.
"This gave the Germans the velocity
of the shell when It reached the screen.
The holes it made in the screens gave
them three or more poluta in the curve.
This enabled them to plot a section of
the curve. They could, tell from the
explosion the size of the shell approxi
mately. This would enable them to
know the velocity with which the shell
would leave the gun.
"With these elements-a section of
the trajectory, the velocity of the shell
when It reached the screens and a
knowledge of the initial velocity of a
certain sized shell-they had more than
enough data to - figure out exactly
where the projectile came from.
"In fact tbey could check themselves
on It, because tbey could plot the whole
curve from the section they had with
their knowledge of the velocity, and
they could figure the straight distance
from the velocity of the shell when it
reached the screens and the velocity
they knew it mnst have when it left
the muzzle of the cannon on board the
monitor.
"The best proof that the system
worked was the fact that no matter
where we moved to, their shots strad
dled us, and besides the one which
came on board us one of our other
ships got a shell tn the boiler room."
Well, somebody's always taking the
joy out of life, as we say In America.
After mess we left the monitor, the
little damage which had been done the
M. L. that ran up on the shelf having
been repaired. Before we went down
over the rim of the horizon we saw
our friend the monitor steaming as
fust as she could go toward some ves
sels flying the Dutch flag.
"D all neutrals anyway," said
the Brass Hat He didn't mean that
there was anything particularly rep
rehensible in being neutral, but If there
were no neutrals we'd always know
who to fire on and who not to. The
trouble la that a lot pf ships are cruis
ing around under neutral flags and
scattering mines in their wake.
"We're always nervous when we're
In waters Meutral has Just traversed.
Down at Dover But I'm getting ahead
of myself. I will tell about what hap
pened at Dover In my next article.
The fourth aud concluding article of
this series will appear soon. It la en
titled No. 4v The Dangars of Oovar.
Aeroplanes bombard the barracks an4
town. German submarines laying mines
In the harbor channel. What happened
on a dentroyer the day after I had dinner
on her with th officer whom later I aaw
enshed and torn to death.