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NOME, ALASKA. ArRIL 10, 1918.
AMERICAN GUNNERS ON MER
CHANT SHIPS GIVE “SUB"
PIRATES THEIR DUES
At 5,000-yard range navy men on
cargo boat end career of one Ger
man underseas menace; told by
official records.
By Ralph D. Paine.
(Prom the Records of the Navy De
partment.)
(Concluded.)
SUBMARINE TOUCHES SHIP
There was precious little room to
spare in this adventure, hut it was
surpassed by a liner, formerly a favor;
ite ship among Atlantic pilgrims, now
carrying cargoes to the Allies. A
blanket of fog covered the sea in the
morning. It lifted a trifle and a very
mtich surprised submarine popped up
dead ahead of the lunging' prow. She
let fly a torpedo in a wild flurry at
such an ar.gle that it glanced along the
steamer’s side without exploding. A
moment later the submarine itselt
went bumping and scraping along the
other side of the vessel, whose officers,
sailors and gunners stared straight
down at it and uttered the deep and
hearty curses of the sea. They would
have swapped their souls for a few
bombs to drop in remembrance. Grimy
stokers poked their heads through the
open ports and spat at the conning
tower, or passionately scrambled for
lumps of coal and slice bars to heave
at the blankety-blank thing. Then
the fog swallowed It up and the inci
dent closed.
For hard fighting and the dogged
courage that we rightly ascribe to the
men of the American Navy, the story
of the Moreni and cheif petty officer
Andrew Copassaki, commanding the
armed guard, is one of those which
shinse undimmed in defeat. German
sailors cheered him and his men from
1 he deck of a submarine when he fin
ished with his ship on fire and a cargo
of gasoline about to blow him to king
dom come. He was made a warrant
officer for devotion o> dot., . n.i deter
inii, ttion to tight as long . s toe floated.
A summary of bis rep irt to .ho Navy
Department was given out shortly af
ter but it seems worthy of publication
in full:
We were attacked three days out
from Glbralter. first sighting the sub
marine at <1,000 yards away. She fired
four or five shots before we located
her. We then swung around to head
our stern at her and returned the fire
at 7,000 yards. After half an hour’s
fight we were hit in the gasoline tank
aft. and a fire started. It was report
ed to me that the ammunition alt was
running low. 1 lined up the forward
gun's crew with the merchant crew to
pass ammunition from forward to aft.
After fighting an hour longer, fire
broke out all over the ship. It became
impossible for the men to pass any
more ammunition aft. When I saw
that such was the case I happened to
be abaft the main-mast, and called for
one of the suns crew to go forward
with me. 1 reached the bridge being
burned on the way. but the man was
uliable to follow me.
About this time the steering gear
was shot away and the ship steamed
In circles. Coming down off the
bridge, I saw the captain and the boat
swain, who were holding the falls
ready to lower the life boats. The
captain asked me to come and get In’
his boat, as it was already on fire and
it would lie to late if we waited. 1
told him to wait and he told me that he
won! ’ hold the boat for me as long^
ns possible.
We went forward and manned toe
gun, with which we fired four more
shots before it was put out of commis
sion. When the submarine saw that
our shells were dropping closer, she
went full speed astern, so that we
could not see her. Then as we could I
Are no more, and as the captain called
that the liife-boat was burning, we got
into it. The boat upset when we hit
the water and two of the merchant
seamen were lost. We swam around
until we could get to the capsized boat
and turn it over.
Congratulated By Germans.
The submarine called the boats
along side and the commander con
gratulated us, shaking hands with the
captain, and telling us that it was the
best fight they had ever seen put up by
a merchant vessel. The submarine
had two inches of deck armor.
The lieutenant asked me where the
gunners were, arid I told him they had
been killed by shell fire. He was also
anxious to know if we had any English
men aboard. Two hours after the sub
marine left us we were picked up by
a Spanish steamer. After we were
aboard, a German submarine came up
near by. An officer of the steamer
went over to him in a small boat and
appeared to receive some papers, after
which he returned to the ship. The
crew of the submarine cheered, and
the Spanish sailors cheered back, and
we then steamed away.
During the tight, which lasted over
two hours, we fired over 150 shots, but
the steering gear being shot away
and the ship moving in circles, we
could get no range. The submarine
fired about 300 shells of which four
hit the ship.
This volcano of a tanker was no
place to he. with the flames racing
fore tind aft. The chief gunner made
a passage through it, "being burned
on the way,” and his men followed him
into action for a final go at the Hun. It
was another fight at very long range,
conducted with extreme caution by the
submarine.
Fired At Boat.
For wanton brutallity, which better
accords with the spirit of the
German submarine game, there
is the report of the loss
of the American schooner Childe Har
old off the French coast. Unadorned,
the episode is thus described:
“At daybreak an object reported by
the mate was believed to bo the square
sails of a ship hull down. The glasses
showed it to be the superstructure of
a submarine 1 mile away. (The
Childe Harold was unarmed.) The
submarine opened fire and the shells
ripped through the schooner’s hull and
sails. The master ordered the crew
into the motor launch and lowered
away. This was plainly visible to the
submarine, which had come much
nearer. She continued to fire, how
ever, evidently at the boat in the water
which escaped being hit. The captain
and liis erbw were ordered aboard the
submarine and noticed that the cap
ribbons of the sailors bore the letters
T-H)' and ‘U-17! Two of the officers
spoke excellent English. and C'upt.
Byrne, of the schooner, informed them
that the firing was totally unnecessary
and that he had not expected such das
tardly treatment from any white men.
"The conversation developed the fact
that the commander knew the date of
sailing of the Ohilde Harold from an
American port and was on the lookout
for her. He also received information
of tlie departure of the four master
Alicia B. Crosby and the three master
A. V. Sherman on the same date. sill
three vessels having passed out to sea
together. Ho wanted to know where
the other schooners were. According
to his schedule they should have shown
up by this time.
The Germans looted the Childe Har
old and seemed very hungry. They
had only coffee and dry bread for
breakfast aboard the submarine. After
fetching all the stores in the launch,
they put the captain and his crew into
the boat again, which was stove and
half full of water. The schooner was
then set on fire. Her people were res
cued by a steamer. Cnpt. Byrne is |
anxious to try it again."
A robust American shipmaster, this
skipper of the Childe Harold, who told
Ihe Germans to their faces what he
thought of them and was eager to have
another fling at it! Some of the other
| captains of sailing vessels are more
cautious. When the fleet of great five
and six masters was transferred from
the coastwise coal trade to the deep
water service across the Atlantic mas
ters were offered as high as $10,000 a
round voyage, and there was no rush
of applicants. They knew far better
than the owners, who were greedy for
rich dividends, how small a chance of
escaping submarines with only the
fickle winds to drive them. These ves
! sels were recently barred from the
trade with Europe by the refusal of the
American Government to issue export
licenses for cargoes conveyed in them.
Modini's Cafe (formerly Board of
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month of April, also 10% of all
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Red Cross Society.
i The total amount will be published
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officers of the Red Cross, May 1st.
He guarantees to sell goods at reg
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stock and deliver same to your
house free of charge during the
month. Stock comprises Gent’s Fur
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To M. D. McCumoer, your lieirs,
executors,, assigns or personal
representr.t.ve*:
You are hereby notified that
I have expended in Inner and im
provements, the sum of one
hundred dollars eaca year for the
years of 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
1912, 1913 and 1914 on the Protec
tion Association Placer mining claim
situated on Coffee creek in the Koug
arok Recording Precinct, Alaska,
note of location of which is re
corded in Vol. 03, page 197 ot
said precinct Records.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you have
failed to contribute your portion
of said expenditure, your interest
in said claim will become the pro
perty of the undersigned , your
co-owner, under section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
ADOLPH J. MUELLER.
F Co-owner.
Date of first publ., March 22, 1918.
Date of last puhl., Ju"e 21, 1918.
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