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Exeter Advocate, 1915-3-11, Page 6gtw ,114rm ' ••;f. 'fi3 4 ... ztewkams i .c.3Yemaysom ii'@w.'t 4° irb w.A. AN UNDER -SEA ATTACK - By Boren Hrolf Von TPewitee Formerly et the Danish Navy. • The haze of early dawn broods over the bight of Heligoland. , pale and .chilly sunrise peeks cau- tiously- over the Friesian dunes, outlining the crags of the island fort 'ess crested with -cannon. Slow- ly the pale beams "filter through the vaporous eurtain, lifting a cover in places like a "haiisfrat#, ' making up her bed. The sea, sleeps calm and frigid, like a great, undulating jelly sealed under a blanket of haze. The still- ne s is oppressive, vmsnous. It is 'broken at ix -deft -els. but not relieved, be gruff, n'tuffied thuds from the inner haxhur--•-.from the thio. v:lden d ranee of warlike the forward tanks blow their bal- nm stn ry .and none", were it not last. The quartermaster has al - for ties portly, ru»icatnd buoys that ready clasped. his -wheel. :The tube gear este e',.,; !eve. warning notes, talks :and he digs in with a gleans, in mashie 7:4411" 11 tai:' tide. one lets e1eS. n ° +>: t .itixns , The dial of the inclinometer shows hoes smartly he is 'diluting the craft 1lZy;tq• a est its tiulvirll-ard dive. The drier r 'w r. n the Ill- gunner is at his Dost in the t.)rp.do ` r t a= n . Haat breech. Presently his tube speaks. 1 ae:, rote aneher Haines. The He spins a emaill wheel, a piston I 'T' are iaL... is p.: g'nt':t- up and snaps with a hollow thud, and the to !; like Leos eone giat,n s war head of the torpedo chaml)er tt the , tatl.h=. eiieke e.ato fighting trim, pointing {)ase' of the roles seemed tti i►e three savage -looking mnmisailes at the drifting awes nom the line. It is enemy. of .z dark' gray color. Curiously And thus, to the hum of throbbing en hgli, it :neves against the tide, 1 mut(rs, punctuated by snapping staaceato—aeswared by the .quick "Aye, aye, sir!" of the Crew. The commander takes an observa- tion, the distance between the enemy a,a; asea,sured uathemetioally,. the course . is laid by the compass, the rate crf speed s timed to the distarsee, there lea rapid inspection of all gears --and the final. dive i. ordered. Sinking for Attack.. The engine tube •speaks. At nee the electric motors strike up, send- ing the craft on its Rourse. The. trimming tank tubes speak and hand wheels are set spinning as y leaving a than, keen wake of froth, and. is Inst to vice in the haze. Faster and faster the pole travels; sharper and Sharper waxes the !cake. Commander of the Terror. Under the runaway role, hidden Weis- below the sleeping surface, stand a naafi in a conning tower. Rig eye is glued t, a periscope. To the right and !eft are speaking tubes, dials. gaugees and levers. He is the commander cif that much - dreaded Of ail naval craft. the sub- marine, the etilettt el the high seas. Except for the intense drone of the e'l'ectric; m •ter there is no sound within a the steel z A skin n of theret meehau iefish. h. There is no splash- ing a,f eater against the sides, no wart amnion. only the tremendous preestare of the ocean depths, and the "crueler" gauge shows it. The thief Hunner stands in the t,. rpt•de breech. in the prow, elasp- ine the central hand wheel. A fling ;d this wheel and all the torpedoes dart away simultaneously. Other men stand by other wheels, com- manding pert and starboard torpe- does for single shots. The quarter- master is posted at the 'wheel con- trol of the horizontal rudders, . in- tent lin ,gauges showing the inclina- tion degree and depth level of the eraft. His movements are curbed to the fraction (if an inch; he works as carefully and minutely as a jeweller —an ,Lwkward move of the wheel means disaster to all hands. Shoul- der ea shoulder with the commander is lite Helmsman, his eye on the compass, his hand on the wheel, steering the vertical rudder. "SplitsSeeond" Crew. Back in the stern is the chief en- gineer, with his assistants, standing by switches and levers, cocks and valves. This is a ."split-second" crew, ready on the instant to stop 'or reverse the motors, to diseon- nect them .altogether or start the gasoline engines in place of them, to blow out or force water into the ballast tanks, to draw oxygen and expel carbonic gases, to load stor- age batteries, to tend compressors, to watch pressures in pistons and chambers. t•u make quick repairs when necessary --to do more engi- neering and elo it efficiently, in the smallest and com attest engine- room ever devised, than was ever done before. Conversation is forbidden. Mar- tial discipline governs every action. Speech is reduced to words spoken in the performance. of duty. The electric lights are so arranged that the tools and appliances need- ed are distinctly vieible.. Every- thing is in its proper place, from the potash -cartridge ehaunberthat. absorbs the foul air to the refuse ejector that blows waste out into the water. At the ear of every man is a speaking tube. From the officer in the turret comes an occasional corn- Anand—a, wheel isturned, a lever is moved, .a switch is thrown—and the big ,mechanical fish continues its Baring ,course, gliding through hos- tile depths dotted with floating mines .and ploughed by the swift forefoot of a hundred cruisers whose smallest gun could . send the dauntless diver to the bottom with a single phot. Sighting Its Prey. Availing itself of the haze, the submarine ventures to the surface, and runs awash at its, cruising speed of 16 knots until the British coast heaves in sight, when the course is laid northeast. At six bells in the afternoon the to:okout at the ,oaani- scope signaals. a fleet of fishing smacks en the port bow. The helm is laid down, and the big nleohani-' cal fish bears down upon the dowsed smacks. The haze has cleared. On the fringe of the horizon is a, :s sot of p ' a dark is p ,; getting ever, darker and bigger. With his binoculars fixed' in.• the perisoo e the leans the blurred officer g outlines of three' large funnelsbelching' black smoke. There is a sharp command: The gas • engine stops.' The speaking `tubes eomnience ,to rattle with words of1 command—sharp, precise, pistvne, speaking tubes croaking with commands, the war -head gleaning with torpedoes nt the ready, the ineelrannical fish plunges through the foaming brine down- ward to its fighting level of 20 feet below the surface, bearing down upon an enemy it cannot see with uncanny precision—relentless, irre- sistible. .Availing itself of the fishing fleet as a screen, the submarine is able to take one more peek over the sur- face without being detected by the enemy, which develops to be a supe r•dre,adn'ught. The experienced ,ey'e of the cam - minder of serves at .a: glance that. h miss his target unless --t h emergency eontmanrings out "Starboard helm! Forward. trim.!' The submarine destroyer swerves from its course, rising at the same time to a somewhat higher level. By this manoeuvre her commander hopes to cut the course of the ini- meastirably swifter dreadnought, and intercept her before she can pass. "Port. torpedo -ready 1" rings the. tube. Launching the Blow. A great, monstrous shadow comes bearing down upon the little craft. With incredible swiftness et ap- proaches, seeming almost to draw the eraft toward it with the suction ofits menacing bottom. • The plunging bilge keels are visi- ble now. A collision means death, not only to the dreadnought, but to the destroyer as well. just as the great armored ram of the ponderous hull, ripping through the foam, gaunt :and grim with bar- nacles, .seems to !aim a death• blow at the little eraft, the main tube in the torpedo breech screams; "F-e-u-rrrl" A hand wheel .spins, pistons click in the war -head, there is a hollow pop as of a huge cork being pulled, and .a glittering torpedo, charged with superheated energy, darts out, cutting the brine at a mile -a -minute clip. Submarine distance is always de- ceptive; the dreadnought is fully a, cable length away. Lieutenant Herbert :se-1Mb. and His Wife, The second son of the Prime Minister is like bis father —bro- ther, s t i •:k,�u elder o , Ra:vmond a barrister. BeHis thirty-four years of age, and sines the outbreak of hostilities has joined the army. He married Lady Cynthia Cliaaneris, the eldest daughter- of the present Lord Wemyss, and has two children. Mr. and Lady Cynthia Asquith have a charm- ing house tin 'Sussex Place, Re'gent's Park. Inset is a new portrait of his wife, Lady Cynthia .Asquith. RAISER W'TLLI;1.liI II, e By Chas, M. Bice, Denver, Col, , e-- • That we are engaged in a Titanic struggle, greater in its conse- quences than the Napoleonic wars of our ancestors. and one which will trysour national fortitude and temper tothe uttermost, every thoughtful person will readily eon- cede. It may he some satisfaction to know that this world-wide drama in which we are to play our role is not of our seeking,but whoever or whatever the cause, can now cut but little figure. The great Areo- pagus of the neutral nations, those trustees of the world's conscience, have already pronounced in no un- certain tones in our favor. Indeed,. it is doubtful if there is a nation on the face of the globe, great or small, excepting subsidized Turkey, that does not hate the Kaiser and his war methods. This war is the inevitable out- come of a. policy which bears the title of Reaipolitick, and which first Prussia and then Germany has been carrying on for over 100 years. This so-called policy is based on the principle that as far as all out- side nations are concerned, `Wight is right," -the end justifies the means, and this has merged by easy gradations into the German be- lief that they are a chosen people, and their sovereign is the Lord's Anointed. And even this policy would have accomplished but little if it had not been backed up at home with a policy of strengthening the nation. If we go back to the,• reign of the Prussian Monarol£ Frederick the Great (1740-1786), we. find this dual policy of land -grab- bing abroad, and land improve- ment at home in : fuIl operation. In 1772' he participated with Aus- tria and Russia in carving up Pe - land, his share being "Vest Prussia. As his own Ohancellor he had a finger in every pie, an example the present William has faithfully copied. Prussia, shared, in a second and third ,partition of Poland in 1793 and 1795, and certain changes and re -arrangements took -place in 1807, by which Prussia gobbled up Posen, so tha.t to -day the population of Germany is 10 per cent. of. Poles, and whome he has never ,suc- ceeded in assimilating., Then in 1815, Prussia acquired Saxony, and the Rhine Provinces and Westphalia; :which greatly in- creased the unification of Germany. In 1834 she started the famous' Zoll verein, the result.•of which was to cover the whole country with a net- work of toll -bars. In 1866 ,she an- nexed the duchies of Schleswig-Hol- stein, It is through -Holstein 'the Kiel Canal runs. Meanwhile, Austria had been or- dered Out of Gernianiy, after the battle of Sadowa, and told to, push eastward, and seek oompenisatlon by conquering whet Slav countries she could, while Prussia annexed a •lot :of sunal11 north German states that had taken Austria's side. In 1870 a quarrel was picked with France, the King of Prussia pre- tending to have been insulted ,by the 'French Ambassador. The- re- sults of this war are well blown Germany,annexed Al,saee and the largest pert of Lorraine, although the inhabitants were mostly fly 1'renc,.h. The Franco-German war led : to the. definite consolidation of German under : the King of Pi�ui ssar who. "tookthe title of Kaiser William L, anal' the dream of Bismarck to weld together the country by blood and. iron was effected. Thereafter Ger- many became a world -power. In The End. "Starboard torpedo — ready — Fire 1" follows the command. - But before the second missile can cut the water there is a, thunderous. explosion, • The whole forefoot of the huge warship is lifted clean out of the water. Before its yawning freeboard is buried in the swirling foani•tihe sec- and torpedo knocks ahole •amid- sihips, exploding her magazines with the roar of aa erupting volcano. The huge 1eviathai • of armor" plate aid giant gun, fleet as •a ecout,-strong as a fort, representing $12,000,000in the mint:of the realm, and 9,00 'Iives an human flesh and bone, has been scrambled into a horrible, tottering wreck=steaanr whistles „screaming for help, boilers exploding like a field of mines,• flames bursting from hatches,>maste snapping in two, monster cannon rousing their turrets, overboard, the crew jammed like squealing rats in a hundred traps, lashed by jets of scalding steam, - the ,scuppers ooz- ing blood like the nostrils of a wounded ,ball. In short, a capitalship,the pride. of the proudest navy, has been van quished by a small :in.arauding:craft, looking very like 'a mechanical fish ; a little marine toy,' a poor skate of a craft, engineered by a boat's load of dare devils, the joke of naval Mess -rooms, and sometimes deri- sively referred to as the "tin sar- dine." o Sympathy. "Sir, your daughter has proants- 'acl to become mywiEe.' ``Well, don't come. Ito . me ,for s an- artil • v.oa aright y p Y a tt know somethdng would happen to you, hanging around here five nights a week." The Essential Thing. ":What muse I do•, doctor, ,. tq at- tain a ripe old age 4" '"Lite." • 1876, Germany, without any ea. save the prosperous condition �, Io- e ane of v ' 1 i h cls she was' : e l o ro se p po d to attack !,ranee, b France'rnas saved by the interve tion of Britain's Queen, with aid of the Emperor of Russia, ;ass finally Emperor William fold V Moltke that he felt too old to ha another war on his conseienee, Bismarck . strongly eneourag the country to embark on a vigo oris colonial policy, though might have the effect of weakeni Germany in Europe. Thus aft years of carefully sending colonic to a Brazilian Province, where formed veritable German eommun ties, the Brazilians took fright, an informed the United States, w became greatly ,alarmed, as this seemed to infringe the "Moor Doctrine," and this was assigned the principal reason for the gre aretielenests v.,zm SAG .A, Poww en s !440114!.eivar .44LL1,• maeanons „rs U4 r'u 010210,300.4410 tee wwrrtp wr 0. 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Peel, of salt• a dish of cayenne, a salt- rpeen£ul of baking soda dis•:i,l"ved in a tablespoonful 4,f water, and n tablespoonful of melted butte; Beat thoroughly, turn into a h.ak e mg dl -h and bake in a quae•k over: until defierto bee xn. l< Wholesome ome Bake•tt-.i!:pple' Des, sett. ---Wash and cure enuugle . tart apples to fill a baking. pan £ when pada apple stands upright. Place a small bit of butter at the bottom of the hallowed space iia each, apple, fill the rest of the spae with sugar, lily a raisin and same walnut meat on top of eacli, anri sprinkle them all with cinnamon ud nutmeg. Put in the pan rualnd the apples the usable bits of pulp eat from the Bores, a handful of ale ins, two table peonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, and 'half a oupful of water. Bake the apples in a moderate oven, and add water from time to time, so that there shall he sufficient liquid in the pan to serve its a sauce. Chocolate "flurry Cake," — Si - together one cupful cf pastry lkur. �. roue cupful of sugar, two and one - I al£teaspoonfulse .tl� baking p der, and one-half «.f a teaaspe� nmfe' of salt. :Veit. two tablespoonfuls •i butter and two-thirds of a sclatar•, of chocolate in a reasuring cap. Gadd two teaspoonfuls of mill.,. atnai stir the ,mixture until the ingrc� diente are blended. Add t•wu 1111 - beaten eggs, and fill the eup with milk. Pour the contents of the cup into the prepared dry mixture, and beat it briskly. Pour the tat, ter into a medium-sized pan. and bake it in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. I� rosting-.-Adel ons and teas -thirds cupfuls of confec- tioner's sugar to three teaspoon- fuls of eoeoa and two tablespoou. full of melted butter. Mix the sus gar, cocoa and butter with hos coffee to the proper consistency t spread easily upon the cake, Work rapidly, for the frosting set:, vert claickly. serape and eut.1engthwlse. Lav oa use a plate, cart side uppermost. IJeap of a ,spoonful of lee cream in the ceu- te tre, e 4'generous over x , t mvxl #i ut amount of whipped4decream and de- n- Borate with a maraschino cherry. the Dutch Date' Gal*e ,--Use one eup- d ful of chopped walnuts, one cupful Un of cut-up dates, two eggs, one cup - ye fall of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, ed and one teaspoonful of baking pow- r- der. Drop the batter on a tin bak- ing sheet, and -bake it in e moder- ate oven, Honeycomb Padding.--LT-se one- half of a cupful of flour, one-quar- ter of a cupful of sugar, one -Half of a cupful of Porto Rico molasses, one -'half of a teaspoonful of soda, :rix one-half of a, cupful of milk and one-quarter of a cupful of but - it ng er is they a ho ret oe as ter and heat them °together; beat at two egg' and stir them in. Mix increase in the American Navy, which occurred from 1890 to 1895. William II. • The accession of the present Em- peror marks a new era in the his- tory of Realpolitik, especially in re- lation to foreign affairs. Bismarck, while in control, confined German activity mainly to Europe, but the present, Emperor has extended Ger- man influence far beyond, and one of. his earliest acts was to drop the old Stage Pilot Bismarck, and as- sume the whole role of stage vil- lain. At first the German people looked with much doubt and appre hension on their new ruder. No one could guess what he would do next! He was:an unknown quan- tity and capable of' springing any dumber of uncomfortable surprises on the people. - They nicknamed him the Roving Kaiser (Der Reise Kaiser): But to -day he is in Germany the supreme authority.: on -.politics . and. all naval and military matters, and: owing to bis :greet versatiiitys there is nothing on which he does not as- sume to lay down the law. He is .a Nero is vanity if not in cruelty, and his egotism soars' be- yond all limits, aa -7d yet this man 'is.•permitted to'deal with the desti- nies of millions of people not alone in Germany but throughout the world. True, he may be the vic tim of a system, but he is also its executioner. Brought up in the Mediaeval doctrine of the "divine right of kings," no.other ruler has. ever placed himself so nearly on as level with the Divinity. Americans have•not` forgetten his attempt to rally the 'countries of Europe against. the United States in the recent war with Spain, nor have they condoned the meddle= somenese of'the Kaiser's fleet in. Mamilla Bay when Dewey captured that city. He next 'turned, his at•• tentien to the East, ,and his cry of the "yellow peril" is still ringing in Qnr ears to the .great: annoyance of China and Japan. He next made the. assassination of a 'couple, of German miesioneries the pretext of extorting -from the:Chineste the lease of,200 square,. wiles of Chinese ter- ritory., known, as Kivu-ehau, which Japanese and British fleets' as re; eently wrested 'from' him, -to 'r.e- store to . China. He 'was the' undoubted ca 'of , use the war between Russia and Japan, fol the sordid.selfish. motive. of re- lieving temporaxi.ly the resshre the hordes along p of the Austro -Ger-' man frontier, • He Fadi ht dis rm g a . ament'<-iso- posals ,•at •the' Ha ue `eonferen g , ccs;. and thus forthe last 2u years there hastbeena'gradual -revelation of his 14Cailecl Dist policy throughout the -World. But this has had, one good the ingredients in the order given, bake the pudding twenty minutes in a moderate oven and serve it with foamy sauce, A. Use for Stale Bread.—Break pieces of stale crust into pieces the size of a large walnut, dip for a moment in milk to .which has been added a pinch of salt and a dust - hag of cayenne pepper. Place the break on a baking sheet, and bake in a moderate, oven till they are golden brown, When cold store in a tin. These are excellent for tea rusks. Creamed Chicken anis Sauec. — Heat two• cups cold, cooked chink- en, cut in dice, in sauce to which celery salt has been added. Make white sauce by putting butter in •sa.ncepan, stir until melted and bubbling. Adel three tablespoon- ful•s-of flour with one-fourth table- spoonful salt and a few grains of pepper and stir thoroughly. Boil a cup of milk two. minutes. If a wire whrs!k,.is used all the milk can be poured in at once. Cheese Fondue.—Cover one cup - of ful stale bread -enemies with on pint of milk and let- it strand 15 minutes. Beat two eggs without separating, add "them to the milk and bread, add a, half -pound of chopped cheese, a half -teaspoonful effect, for it has resulted in recon- ciling all differences between no- tions; .as well as obliterating .all party jarrangs its ottr own country, while there has been forged be- tween the. Mother Country and her colonies new links of Empire.' Like anent Sparta, Germany's hegemony has: been 'exercised for i11 to all estee:pt Germainy, and like the ;ancient republic' her fall will- be rapid. Denver, February 25, 1915. .. 'Useful bines. Don't pick up broken glass but lay a wet cloth over it and "pat" it up. A nice way to cook white turnips is to dice them before cooking, then boil in salt water, and serve with a cream sauce. Palate fur pies should be rolled very thin.. Always brush the un.- dercrust with water and be sure tu perforate the upper crust. In serving fish for dinner, the light-meated hinds are preferred because they -are more easily di. gersited than those with dark meat. Old broomliandles, sawn into six ineh'leng4•hs, then padded and coy- ered with odd bits of silk, etc„ are excellent to wind ribbons on, All linen should be hung straight to dry, and all pieces will wear blietter if a third' or half of the nap, kin or table cloth is hung aver the better. It makes sponge eake very light and spongy. if .a ta;blespoonfiil o water, with the chill off, is put into the cake mixture dire:etly after .pu•t tng in the eggs. To handle dates with ease and comfort pour a little wtarm water over them -before stoning and. eit- ting them; and the dates will sepa- rate without stickiness. Never set rice to eook in cold we:• ter ; or you' 'will have a tihiela mushy dish that is unpleasarie to thee; sight and taste. Ailweee ese bailing water. 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