TWO TORPEDOES DO WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 1, 30 November 1914, Page 8

TWO TORPEDOES DO WORK.

When I got within suitable range I sent away my third attack. This time I sent a second torpedo after the first to make the strike doubly certain. My crew were aiming like sharpshooters and both torpedoes went to their bull's-eye. My luck was with me again, for my enemy was made useless and began sinking by the head. Then I careened far over, but all the while its men stayed at the guns looking for the invisible foe. They were brave and true to their country's sea traditions. Then it evidently suffered a boiler explosion, and completely turned turtle. With its keel 1 uppermost it floated until the air got out from under it and then it sank with a loud sound as if from a creature in pain.

The whole affair had takes less than an hour from the time of the shooting off the torpedo until the Cressy went to the bottom.

SETS COURSE FOR HOME. I set my course for home. Before I had gone far some British cruisers and destroyers were on the spot and'the dctroyers took up the chase. I kept under water most of the way, but managed to sen'] a wireless to the German fleet that Iv" heading homeward and was being | but although their destroyers saw mo plainly at dusk on the 22nd, and made a final effort to stop me, they abandoned the attempt, as it was taking them too far from safety and needlessly exposing them to attack from our fleet of submarines.—American Exchange.