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Taihape Daily Times, 31 August 1918, Page 2

marine lay motionless. She was more than twenty fathoms deep, and at 120 feet the pressure of water on the out* side was so heavy that neither. the torpedo hatches could be to let the imprisoned men out so that they might take their chance of drowning or of reaching the surface. Still the water mounted in the in-. terior. It soaked into accumulate ors and, mingling with theichemicalsT there, began to generate minute quantities of poison gas. The men crowded forward, shrieking to their comrades to hurry up in opening the hatches. The water lapped over their ankles and crept up their legs. The air became dense. It was used up ,and it was impregnated with poison. The water reached their knees. The men fighting with the hatches dropped back exhausted, their hands maimed and bleeding from their frenzied efforts. They clung to any foothold above the water that crept up and ever up remorselessly. Sixty minutes had gone by since thev fateful explosion. NO ESCAPE FOR THEM. Even if the hatches were opened there was little hope that they could survive the sudden exposure to the pressure of the water at that depth, and for some reason the U-boat carried none of the special life-saving waistcoats with oxygen supply tubes which ought to have been on board. The imprisoned men cared nothing for that. "Open! open!" they screametl." Their mad panic grew. One man suddenly stuffed some cotton wool up his nostrils and flung himself into the two feet of water that swirled uneasily beneath the paling lights. His example was followed. One after another men' sought relief of death from the awful oppression of life. By a strange freak of the brain o'ne m::a who feared to drown sought to shoot himself, but the revolver missed fire. With an oath he hurled into the pool of death and flung himself after it. At that moment an aperture gave way. Water poured in, equalising the pressure within and without, and one of the torpedo hatches of the conning tower hatch was forced open. The air pressure shot out the still living and the already dead together—but the dead were the happier. The pressure burst the lungs of .the living as they were flung upwards, and they snot hrough the surface of the water, shrieking in horrible death agonies. A British trawler was near. Never in all the strange months of war had fishermen seen such things as ihey saw in those , few dreadful seconds. 4 Two only of that submarine crew were living among the.bodies that were taken on board the trawler. Their sufferings were an epitome of all the rest.

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