LIKE RATS IN A BAG.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 April 1919, Page 2

LIKE RATS IN A BAG.

FORCING' A U-BOAT TO SURRENDER.

A good story .of the craft of a Brit- | isb trawler in forcing a U-boat to surrender may now bo told. The submarine didn’t want to fight, and the water was shoal —just the sort of place a submarine hates to be caught in. The trawler’s crew got to work-with all sorts of gadgets and fakements and before long were right on topr of the submarine, with a very efficient hawser connecting them. But the submarine would not come up. Tt sulked at the hot Loin like an injured fish, and tried to outwear the trawler’s patience In the end Fritz succeeded in his object—but nor in the way he had hoped The skipper took a few turns of the hawser round the drum of the little steam windlass, and the submarine tilled on end like a bottle standing! upright. The result was that the submarine's crow went slithering along their vessel until they were 'a kiluttering muttering mass of humanityconfined in what must have been superior kind of Black Hole or Calcutta. with petrol fumes thrown in for luck

After giving them time to realise the hopelessness of their position, the trawler skipper eased the submarine dowy again to a level keel, in order to give the Huns a chanc to surrender. But, as usual, they were would not. Off started the windlass again, and the whole crew of babykillers were once more shaken up like rats in a bag. That was enough. As soon as the hawser was slackened, and The submarine retained her normal position, she rose to the surface. Open came her conning-towcr, and the \whole crew came out on deck with hands up.

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