In the first eighteen days of February, there were forty fights with submarines.

The waters round are crowded with those light craft, destroyers, submarines, mine-sweepers, trawlers, patrol boats, on which for the moment at any rate the fortunes of the naval war turns.

It is a draft going out to France for the first time, north countrymen, by their accent; and life-belts and submarines seem to amuse them hugely, to judge by the running fire of chaff that goes on.

Among the German vessels surrendered that day were sixty submarines.

On November 29th it was discovered that of the 360 submarines of all types built by the Germans, the Grand Fleet had destroyed or captured 200.

August 19German submarines sink British light cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth.

Oct. 4German submarines sink French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner Franconia.

Oct. 8German submarines sink six merchant steamships off Nantucket,

June 3Five German submarines attack the coast and sink eleven ships.

They all talk of submarines.

Turning again to the atlas the reader can see for himself that the German and Austrian submarines are obliged to come out across very narrow fronts.

When our ships were in danger from enemy submarines, our sailors painted them with queer stripes and bars, to make it hard for the enemy to see them.

They have a wonderful civilization, in which many of our later discoveriesacademies of the sciences, observatories, balloons, submarines, the modification of species, and several otherswere foreshadowed with a strange mixture of cold reason and poetic intuition.

With this cheerful prospect he bade us farewell, and all being ready, we waited two hours, and finally, just before noon, with deck-hands hanging life belts along the rail to be ready for possible English submarines, churned through the crowded shipping of the Golden Horn, round Stamboul, and out into the blue Marmora.

Out in the Marmora, which is but little wider here than the Hudson at Tappan Zee, transports crammed with soldiers went steaming slowly southward, a black destroyer on the lookout for submarines hugging their flanks and breaking trail ahead of them.

We consoled ourselves by the thought that at least in a rough sea we were safe from submarines, but the consolation became somewhat threadbare as time went on.

In 1918, owing to the watchfulness of German submarines in the Straits and along the northwest coast of Africa, the trip by sea from Marseilles to Casablanca, ordinarily so easy, was not to be made without much discomfort and loss of time.

Destroyers to guard us from the Hun and his submarines, and to lay us a safe course through the mines.

But I think it was not such men as those who chose to take their one chance in a thousand who were sent out, later, in their submarines, to send women and babies a to their deaths with their torpedoes!

We stayed there but one day, and then sailed for home on the Cunarder Ordunawhich has since been sunk, like many another good ship, by the Hun submarines.

The submarines?

I have no doubt that submarines of our own lurked below, waiting, too, to do their part.

The deepway side drains, in which our lorries used to play at submarines, now harbour nothing more exciting than tadpoles.

CASEY, ROBERT J. Battle below: the war of the submarines.

"Warsaw, then Paris, then our Zeppelins will finish London," said the restaurant keeper on the German side of the Dutch frontier; "and our submarines will settle the British navy before the summer is over.