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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1915)
C op yrigh t, 1914, b y P. F. C ollier t * Son T h is r e m a r k a b l e s t o r y w a s f i n i s h e d by S i r A r t h u r C o n a n D o y le la s t M a y j u s t b e f o r e h i s v is it to A m e r i c a . H e w ro te it as a la s t a n x io u s w a r n in g to E n g l a n d b e fo r e s h e e m b a r k e d u p o n a n o th e r war. A n d th e w ar c a m e s o o n e r th a n e v e n he h a d fe a r e d . S Y N O P S IS . a wireless message as to our presence, A European pow er fa ces a disastrous j ft mattered nothing, since In any case w a r with England. Captain Sirius tells I It must be known; otherwise 1 could his king o f a plan which will bring Eng- I easily have brought him down with a land to her knees. H e goes to th e British coast with a submarine ritie. A m it was. I waved my hand to them, and they waved hack to me. CHAPTER II. War Is too big n thing to leave room A Career of Destruction. for personal ill feeling, hut it must be I y | K E P T the engines running fit remorseless all the same. I I I tiie lowest pace which would I was still looking at the sinking i X I hold our P oston under water, Adeln when Vornal. who was beside and, moving slowly across the me. gave a sudden cry of warning and estuary, 1 waited for what must as surprise, gripping me by the shoulder and turning my head. There behind suredly come. 1 had not long to w ait us. coming up the fairway, was a huge Shortly after 1 o’clock I perceived black vessel with black funnels, flying In the periscope a cloud of smoke to the well known house flag of the 1*. the Routh. Half an hour later a large and O. company. She was not a mile steamer raised her hull, making for i distant, and I calculated in an instant the mouth of the Thames. 1 ordered that even it she had seen us she would Vornal to stand by the starboard tor not have time to turn and get away pedo tube, having the other also load before we could reach her. We went ed in case of u miss. Then I advanced straight for her. therefore, keeping slowly, for though the steamer was awash just as we were. They %aw going very swiftly we could easily cut the sinking vessel in front of them and her off. Presently 1 laid the Iota in a that little dark speck moving over the position near which she must pass and surface, and they suddenly understood would very gladly have lain to, but th.Ur dsng»*r I saw a number of men could not for fear of rising to the sur rush to the hows, and there was a rat face. I therefore steered out in the tle of rifle tire. Tw o bullets were flat direction from which she was coming. tened upon our four inch armor. Vou She was a very large ship. 13.000 tons might as well try to stop a charging at the least, painted hlack above and hull with paper pellets as the lota with 1 had learned my lesson red below, with two cream colored rifle tire. funnels. She lay so low in the water from the Adela. and this time 1 had that it was clear she had a full cargo. the torpedo discharged at n safer dis A t her bows were a cluster of men, tance—230 yards. We caught her amid- some o f them looking, I dare say, for I ships, and the explosion was tremen the first time at the mother country. dous, hut we were well outside its She sank almost instantane How little could they have guessed the area. ously. welcome that was awaiting them! I am sorry for her people, of whom On she came with the great plumes of smoke floating from her funnels and I hear that more than 200, including two white waves foaming from her seventy lasears and forty passengers, cutwater She was within a quarter were drowned. Yes, I am sorrv for of a mile My moment had arrived. 1 them. But when I think of the huge signaled full speed ahead and steered floating granary that went to the bot- straight for her course. My timing ! tom I rejoJo£_aS a man does who has They quartered the whole river uioufh until they discovered us at last. Some •harp sighted fellow with a telescope on t>oard of a destroyer got a sight of our periscope and came for us full speed. No doubt he would very glad ly have rammed us. even if it bad meant bis own destruction, but that was not part of our program at all. I sank her and ran her east-southeast, with an occasional rise. Finally we brought her to, not very far from the Kentish coast, and the searchlights of pursuers were far on the western sky line. There we lay quietly all night, for a submarine at uight is uotblng more than a very third rate surface torpedo boat. Besides, we were all j weary and needed rest. Do not for* : get, you cuptalns of men, when you grease and trim your pumps and com pressors and rotators, that the human machine needs some tending also. I had put up the wireless must above I the couuing tower and had uo dilliculty in calling up Captain Stephan, lie was lying, he said, off Veutnor aud had ' been unable to reach his stutiou on ac count o f engine trouble, which he had now set right Next morning he pru- j posed to block the Southampton ap- ! proach. He had destroyed one large Indian boat on his way down chun- ! uel. W e exchanged good wishes. Like | myself, he needed rest 1 was up at 4 in the morning, however, and called all bands to overhaul the boat. She was somewhat up by the head, owing to the forward torpedoes having been used, so we trimmed her by opening the forward compensating tank, admit ting as much water us the torpedoes had weighed. We also overhauled the starboard air compressor and oue of the periscope motors, which had been Jarred by the shock of the first explo sion. We had hardly got ourselves shipshape when the morning dawned. 1 have no doubt that a good many ships which had taken refuge in the French ports at the first alarm had run across and trot safely up the river in the They had some gootT system o f Idg- nallug from the short however, for I had not got to the North Foreland be fore tUree destroyers came foaming after me. all converging from different directions. They had about as good a chance of catching me as three span lels would of overtaking a porpoise. Out of pure bravado I know it was very wrong - 1 waited until they were no tually within gunshot. Then i sank It Is. as l have said, a shallow, sandy coast, and submarine navigation Is very difficult. The worst mishap that can befall a boat is to bury its nose in the side of a sand drift and he held there. Such an accident might have been the end of our boat, though with our Fluess cylinders and electric lamps we should have found no difficulty in getting out at the air • • k and in walk lug ashore across the hod of the ocean. As it was, however. I was able, thanks to our excellent charts, to keep the channel and so to gain the open strait There we rose about midday, but. oh serving a hydroplane at no great dis tance, we sank again for half an hour When we came up for the secoud time all was peaceful around us. and the English coast was lining the whole western horizon. We kept outside the Goodwins and straight down channel until we saw a line of black dots in ¿rout of us. which I knew to he the Dover-C’alais torpedo boat cordon When two mile9 distant we dived and came up again seven miles to th> southwest without one of them dream Ing that we had been within tlrtrt> feet of their keels. When we rose a large steamer flying the German flag was within half a tulle of us. It was the North German Lloyd Altona, from New York to Bremen. I raised our whole hull and dipped our flag to her. It was amus ing to see tiie amazement of her peo pie at what they must have regarded as our unparalleled Impudence in those : English swept waters. They cheered > us heartily, and the tricolor flag was HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS A. J. SHERWOOD, PRES. L H. HAZARD. Cashier R. E. SHINE, V -Pré». 0. C. SANFORD. Atti. Cashier FIRST N A T IO N A L B A N K Reported for The Herald by the Title Guarantee and Abstract Co. O P C O Q U IliU B , O R B O O li. 1 C’oquille Land Co to City of Coquiile deed right of way for water | ipe line for T r a n n a c t s a G e n Coquiile $03.00 B o t r i o f D irec to r» 0 E McCurdy et ux t«> city of Co quiile deed rigdt of way for water pipe R. 0. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, L. Harlocker, L. H. Hazard, line near Coquiile $3.00 Inaiali Hacker. U. K. Shine. 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Then, co, of 8.000 tons, of the same line, also after staggering and trembling, the from eastern ports and laden with lota came on an even keel. I stopped i corn. Why she came on in face of the engines, brought her to the sur the wireless messages, which must face and opened the conning tower, have warned her of danger, I cannot The other two steamers while all my excited crew came crowd imagine. ing to the hatch to know what had which we blew up that day, the Maid ! of Athens (Hobson line» and the Cor happened. The ship lay within 200 yards of morant, were neither of them provid us. and It was easy to see that she had ed with apparatus and came blindly her deathblow. She was already set to their destruction. Both were small tling down by the stern There was 1 Mints of from 5,OIK) to 7.000 tons. In a sound of shouting and people run the case of the second I had to rise ning wildly about her decks Her name to the surface and tire six twelve- was visible, the Adela of London, pound shells under her water line be bound, as we afterward learned, from fore she would sink. In each ease the New Zealand with frozen mutton crew took to the boats, and, so far ns Strange as It may seem to you. the no I know, no casualties occurred. tion of a submarine had never, even After that no more steamers came now. occurred to her people, and all along, nor did 1 expect them. Warn were convinced that they had struck ings must by tills time have been n floating mine The starboard qnnr flying in all directions. But we had ter had been blown In by the explosion, no reason to be dissatisfied with our and the ship was sinking rapidly first day. Between the Maplin sands Their discipline was admirable We and the No re we had sunk five ships saw boat after boat slip down crowd of a total tonnage of about 50,000 tons. ed with people ns swiftly and quietly Vlready the London markets would as if It were part of their daily ¿¿rill begin to feel the pinch. And Lloyd's And suddenly, ns one of the boats lay -poor old Lloyd’s what a demented oft waiting for the others they caught Mtnte it would be in! I could imagine a glimpse for the first time of my con the London evening papers nud the nlng tower so «-lose to them I saw howling In Fleet street. We saw the them shouting and pointing, while tile result of our actions, for It was quite men In the other boats got up to have laughable to see the torpedo boats a better look at us. For my part. 1 buzzing like angry wasps out of cared nothing, for I took It for granted Sheerness In the evening. They were that they already knew that a snbrna rlne had destroyed them. One of them darting In every direction across the clambered back Into the sinking ship estuary, and the aeroplanes and hydro 1 was sure that he was about to send planes were like flights of crows, black •«lots against the red western sky. Fred Krokstadt to Rachael Ollie West, w «1 lots 13 & 14 blk 19 blk 19 Bank add to North Bend $10.00 J <> Stemmier to Katherine Stemmier «1 c d lots 1 it 2 blk Ifik 25 Border it Ben W e Caught Her Amidships, and the Explosion Was Tremendous. ders add to Myrtle Point $10.00 C E Broadbent et lix to Katherine ! night. Of course 1 could ‘have attack dipped in greeting as they went roar ed them, but I do not care to take ing past us. Then I stood in to the Stemmier q d lots 1 & 2 blk 25 Border it Benders add to Myrtle Point $160.00 risks, aud there are always risks for French coast. Abr.ih mi Van Zile to Willamette Pa a submarine at night. But one had it was exactly as 1 had expected miscalculated his time, and there she There were three great British steam cific R K Co vv d lots 1 it 2 blk A Elk $75.00 was just abreast of Warden point ers lying at anchor in Boulogne, outer Park add to Lakeside Abraham Van Ztle to Willamette Pa when the daylight disclosed her to us. harbor They were the Caesar, the cific R R Co q c «1 alley between lot** 1 In an instant we were after her. it King ot the East and the Pathfinder, and 2 blk A Elk Park add to Lakeside was a near thing, for she was a flier none less than 10,000 tons. I suppose $ 1.00 and could do two miles to our one. they thought they were safe iu French But we just reached her as she went waters, but what did 1 care about | swashing by. She saw us at the last three mile limits and International law! moment, for I attacked her awash, The view of my government was that since otherwise we could not have had England was blockaded, food coutra- the pace to reach her. She swung i band and vessels carrying it to lie de away, and the first torpedo missed, j stroyed. The lawyers could argue i but the second took her full under the about It afterward. My business was ¡counter. Heavens, what a smash! The i to starve the enemy any way I could whole stern seemed to g o aloft. I Within an hour the three ships were drew off and watched her sink. Bhe under the waves, and the iota was went down in seven minutes, leaving steaming down the Picardy coast look her masts and funnels over the water ing for fresh victims. and a cluster of her people holding on (To be continued next week) to them. She was the Virginia of the Bibby line, 12,000 tons, and laden, like the others, with foodstuffs from the east. The whole surface of the sea was covered with the floating grain. ; “ John Bull will have to take up a hole or two of his bolt if this goes on,” said Vornal as we watched thejscono. Used D. D. D., And it was at that moment that llie very worst danger occurred that could All Itching Gone! befall us. I tremble now when I think T h is is the a ct u a l e x p e r i e n c e o f A n n e how our glorious voyage might have Croman, Santa Rosa. Cal., w i t h t he w o n boon nlpned in the bud. I had fr«*ed- d er fu l P . D. D. P r es cr ip t io n . P D. D. is the p r o v e n E c z e m a Cura tin* hatch of my tower aud was look the mild w ash th a t g i v e s in s t a n t r e l i e f ing at the boats of the Virginia with in al l fo rm s o f sk in trouble. Cleanses the sk in o f al l i m p u r i t i e s —• Vornal beside me. when there was a es a w a y blo tc he s amt pimples, 8wish aud a terrific splash in the wa l w e ash a v i n g the s k in as s m o o t h and h ea lth y ter beside us, which covered us both as that o f a child. Clot a f>0c b o t tl e o f this w o n d e r f u l with spray. We looked up. and you E cz em a Cu re t o d a y a nd ke e p it in tiie can Imagine our feelings when we saw W- k n o w t ha t D. D. D. w i l l do a l l th a t an aeroplane hovering a few hundred ! ta clalmwd f o r it. feet above us like a hawk. With its silencer It was perfectly noiseless, aud had its bomb not fallen into the sea we should never have known what had destroyed us. She was circling round in the hope of dropping a second one, but we shoved on all speed ahead, cram med down the rudders and vanished Into the side of a roller. 1 kept the deflection Indicator falling until I had put fifty good feet of water between the aeroplane and ourselves, for I knew . well how deep they can see under the surface. However, we soon threw her off our track, and when we came to the surface near Margate there was Full of errors and misprints ? no sign of her. There was not a ship In the offing Cheap printing! wive a few small coasters and little W e don’t turn out that kind. thousand ton steamers, which were be neath my notice. For several hours I Outs aie well printed and lay submerged with a blank periscope. Then 1 had an Inspiration. Orders had reasonable in cost. been uiamailed to every food ship to ilf In French waters and dash across after dark. I was ns sure of It am if they bad been recorded lu our own receiver. Well. If they were there that was where I should be also. I blew out the tanks and rose, for there \ was no sign of any warship near. Scratched 40 Years EVER READ ONE OF THOSE FUNNY CIRCULARS? Letterheads, Billheads, Envelopes Too. Stop! Don’t Burn Y o u r Car Up! OME autolsts butter the life ont of a car by useless speed, un wise driving and constant neg lect of little things. Don’t you do it Let us overhaul your engine and put everything in tiptop running shape for the busy season strain. Then take good care of your car. 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