Secret mission submarine.

] The results of the battle of the Somme are shown in a variety of ways: by the reticence and admissions of the German Press, by its efforts to divert attention to the exploits of the commercial submarine cruiser Deutschland; above all, by the Kaiser's fresh explosions of piety.

This applied more particularly to the earlier patterns, and to inflict fatal injury it was necessary to burst the shell in close proximity to the submerged submarine.

There is not a capital city in Europe that twenty years from now will not be liable to a bombing raid done by hundreds or even thousands of big aeroplanes, upon or even before a declaration of war, and there is not a line of sea communication that will not be as promptly interrupted by the hostile submarine.

In addition a number of the older light cruisers were fitted with portable rails on which mines could be carried when minelaying operations were contemplated, in place of a portion of the armament which could be removed; a flotilla of destroyers, with some further flotilla leaders, were also fitted out as minelayers, and several additional submarines were fitted for this purpose.

The education of submarine officers and crew begins in thorough German fashion on land or in docks, in dummy or disused submarines, accompanied by much lecture work and drill.

Even the men on the exploded submarine succeeded in escaping.

Undoubtedly, then, the great battles in the present war, on the water at least, may be decided by these silently moving, dinky sized, almost imperceptible submarines which carry the ever-destroying torpedoes.

They were all thinking about the invisible submarines.

"You are referring to the submarines, Toni, to the little submarines that were in existence at the beginning of the warlittle grasshoppers of fragile steel that moved with great difficulty when on a level with the water and might be overwhelmed at the slightest shock....

Intermixed with these were beds of the peculiar submarine shell-rock whose formation I have just described.

Then, toward midnight, with lights doused and life-belts strung along the railfor English submarines were in the Marmorawe churned quietly round the corner of Stamboul and into the cool sea.

"The sightless submarine was then forced to come to the surface, whereupon the Birmingham's gunner fired the second shot of the fight.

Undoubtedly, then, the great battles in the present war, on the water at least, may be decided by these silently moving, dinky sized, almost imperceptible submarines which carry the ever-destroying torpedoes.

deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged &c 310; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene^; underground.

After they had repeated the operation half a dozen times, they were getting considerable side-wise movement out of the trapped submarine.

[Illustration: Our gallant bluejackets cheered the return of the triumphant submarine after her wonderful achievement.]

But it was found that by means of the receiving apparatus of the submarine telephone an approaching submarine could be heard and located.

According to our knowledge at the time the United States Navy, in April, 1917, possessed twenty-three large and about twenty-four small destroyers, some of which were unfit to cross the Atlantic; there were about twelve submarines capable of working overseas, but not well suited for anti-submarine work, and only three light cruisers of the "Chester" class.

It may be reasonably doubted, however, if direct submarine communication will ever be resumed.

"If you can locate land, and show us how to get there across these piles of ice with a disabled submarine, you shall have a medal from the National Geographic Society.