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Updated: June 17, 2025
The business of relieving trenches, he told us, would be carried out under strictly war conditions, precisely as if enemy submarines were shelling us from the sea. There would necessarily, supposing the submarines to be actually there, be casualties in our force. Haines told off four men to act as casualties. The first on the list this was the way Tompkins' plan worked out was Corporal Cotter.
There may be other methods of reducing Germany's sum total of submarines which are equally if not more effective than the destroyer; but, if so, we have not been made aware of that fact.
It is thus unlikely that such success as might or may attend the efforts of our coast-patrol vessels to dispose of the submarines which come here will not be published unless the highly colored complexion of facts warrants it.
From the submerged dome a door opened and something black shot swiftly out into the water. The door instantly closed behind it and the dark object cleaved its way through the water, without rising to the surface, directly toward the place where the Flatheads were standing. "What is that?" Dorothy asked the Lady Aurex. "That is one of the Queen's submarines," was the reply.
It is just as happens in a convoy of vessels trying to slip past waiting submarines; the fastest has to hold up for the slowest, and in consequence much valuable time is lost. It has even been figured that this loss of time amounts to fifty per cent in all. A new fire and ambition seemed to possess the players on this afternoon.
You wouldn't think we were at war." "Not if it wasn't for the warships," agreed Frank. "And there are enough of them to make it hot for any hostile fleet. But it's a wonder to me some of these German submarines haven't taken a little trip up the Thames." "Mines," replied Jack briefly.
Two British submarines did gallant work by getting up the Straits under the mine-fields and disturbing the Turkish communications across the Sea of Marmara; but there remained land-routes on either shore, and reserves arrived more quickly on the Turkish than on the British front.
We got to recognize certain individuals. They would stare at us fixedly for a while; and then would glump down out of sight like submarines. When I saw them thus floating with only the very top of the head and snout out of water, I for the first time appreciated why the Greeks had named them hippopotamuses-the river horses.
Both the British and French missions revealed with surprising frankness the status of the Allied resources and the military situation. Great Britain was especially candid in disclosing the extent of her losses by submarines. She needed ships, as many as America could build. France needed an American army at once to augment her man power. Italy wanted coal and grain.
"I didn't know, sir," ventured Farley, "that submarines could go quite so fast." "The old types didn't," Lieutenant Jack answered. "However, on the surface a capable submarine must be able to show a good deal of speed." "For getting away, sir?" "Oh, no. Naturally, when a submarine is pursued she can drop under the surface and leave no trail.
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