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THE GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917,
1
The Submarine Scare
There is more or less anxiety on
the Atlantic Const lest German
submarines swarm across the sea
and torpedo, not only all the ship
ping, but the coast cities as well By
way of relieving the minds of the
terrified the Independent publishes
an article by park Benjamin, a
naval authority, from which the
following is taken:
So long as submarines require at!
least fifty feet of water in order to'
dive and much prefer sixtv and
over it is safe to predict that
no inducements will make them
enter earbors or pervade shoals n-
round the coast where the sound
ings are less.
They will also seduotusly avoid
the channels, bays and seaports
wherein thoughtfully disposed
mine fields will be awaiting their
arrival.
In order to get here, submarines
starting from a base in Germany,
have travel about 4800 miles,
Many people think that they do
this under water. Thev do not.
and cannot. The "Deutschland,"
for instance (now reported tied up
to an Knglatul pier,) -was sub
merged for only about ninety miles
of this distance, and not longer
than for about two hours at i time.
A submarine is simply an automo
bile. She has a Diessel oil engine
which propels her on the surface,
and also charges a storage battery,
which supplies current to the elec
tric motor by which she is driven
when below the surface. When
she dives, she shuts off the oil
engine and starts the electric mo
tor. How far she can go on t he
water, depends primarily on how
much oil she can carrv in her
tanks. She will not run above
water when her tanks are empty,
any more than aufomobile will run
without "gas." She will not run
under water any longer than her
current supply lasts, and she has
storage battery troubles quite as
bad as in fact, worse than those
of the electric automobile, whereof
any gasoline carsaleman will readi
ly supply full particulars. In fact,
one of the great weaknesses of the
submarine lies in her propelling
machinery.
Above water, submarines can
go long distances. Large ones
have been planned 250 feet in
length, of 1200 tons displacement,
with a speed of 20 knots per hour
above and of 14 knots per hour
below the surface, and an expect
ed radius of action of 8000 miles.
Whether they can do better than
five per cent of this distance at
the submerged speed or, say,
a out 30 hours' total submersion
wi bout replenishment of power is
VGte OELCO-LIGHT ON THE FARM' S'JtjW
tfoELCO-LIGHT "ftl
I IN THE
IHSUMMER COTTAOfJu1
' fl 1
Delco-IJtfM is today fiirnihiiii;
ihuusaiuU "f farm-limisi-i .villi
brillant. convenient, safe and eco
nomical XvS.
It is funiiiiing power tn operate
pumps, washing mucliiucs, tliunif-,
ireain separator, milking ma-chini-!),
vaaium cleaners, etc.
It is lihtitii: c wntry churches.
Mure and public halis.
It i furnishing liht and power tn
summer humo and camps, to
houseboats and jacMs etc.
jfTOELCO-LIGHT jjl
v il
questionable. At all events, nnv
submarine now known which has,
to cross the Atlantic before reach
ing her field of action, must have
extraneous means of renewing her
fuel supply and for making re
pairs. That is, she must have a
"mother ship," or a shore base
within cany reach, Mother ships,
Usually surface steam vessels, ate
readily found and sunk, and we
may be very certain that the Unit
ed States Navy is seeing to it that
no German bases are being estab
lished on the Atlantic seaboard,
even in Mexico. A submarine off
the coast, and 4800 miles from
home, and without available Kouice
of food and fuel is not much
to be feared. The best she can do
to i rotrict her visit and
people a rest from the
noise of her machinery,
give her
dreadful
the lle.'lt
and the smells of her interior, and
nerve racking ever-present tenor
of destitution, is to find a place
where the vate- is shallow, dive
to the bottom and "go to sleep,"
in which condition she is not for
midable. The submarine, being a mecha
nical fish, is just as catchable in
nets as a shad. Great Bri.ain
has been using such nets with
notable success. Sometimes they
are of chain, sometimes of wire,
sometimes of wrought iron frames
1 nked together with meshes from
10 to 15 feet square. Thev make
the lane pcross Dover Straits, thru
which millions of men and mil
lions of tons of ammunition hav.i
been safely ferried. Thev are laid
across roadstead and harbor en
trances, and in all sorts of places
thrtiout the "danger zone," We
are already establishing them. The
submarine that gets caught in
them usually remains. Off the
coast of Britain one m iy see long
strings of floats with- the fast
motor boats running constantly up
and down the lines. If a float
disappears, the first boat noting
the fact circles around the spot,
with her gun trained and ready.
If the submarine comes up, she is
instantly sunk. If not, because
entangled, the watcher grimly
waits five days to make C3rtain
that no life remains, and then tells
a destroyer which raises the vic
tim and tows her into port. But
even more dramatic is submarine
catching by a couple of motot
boats, a net and an aeroplane
working together. The aeroplane
assumes the role of hawk, and
sees a fish, or --lse if the U boat be
too deeply submerged, recognizes
tlie line of regular waves which
tie litter ahvavs makes on the
surface. A puff of black smoke
trailii g from the aeroplane or a
wireless signal wains the boats
who tush ahead of the submarine
DELCO -LIGHT
DELCO-LIGHT MAKES
Electricity Universal
For the first time electric Iteht and power arc available to
anyone anywhere.
Heretofore, the benefits of electricity have been confined to
those who live in the larger towns and ciiies.
Now Delco-LUJht makes electric current universally available.
It is litrlitini rural railway iUtiuut
and c tiibtructiou camps.
It i lighting the camps uf I'nitcd
SiaUs troops in the Mexican
1 -rdrr and it is disclaim; hereto
I ire undrcanied-uf beauties in the
depth of Mammoth Cave, Ken
tucky. Au nether, over 1 ?,()') Delco-Linht
plants are in operation, and lclco
Liht offices are to be fuiind in al
most every part of the world.
Delco-Lihi is a complete electric plant the enin and dy
nam 'J in run- cuiipuct unit comlmicd with a scl of spe
cially t.mlt and wonder I ully e Licit nt txtteriet for the
klurinjr of current. 1 tie plant it m simple a child can
care tirf it. ami so economical that it actually pays for
itself in time and Ia1ur savrd. It operates OD cither lie ro
se nt, gasoline or natural ta.
TwoSizes: $315 and $375
f. o. b. Honolulu
The Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd.
DELCO-LIGHT DEALERS
Duxo-Uoht Dimoj Lmw
Conditions And Pay .
f on Itiil
GUARD MUGH
READY 10 START
Signing of Bill By Governor
Gives Funds Needed For
Publicity Work
That the campaign of publicity
to encourage tecruitin in the Na
tional Guard of Hawaii will begin
next week and will be prosecuted
activelv on the four islands on
which there are guard regiments,
Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii,
was stated this morning bv Brig.
Gen. Samuel I. ohnsoii, com
manding the territory's militia .
Gen. Johnson, was advised tlfis
morning of the signing by Gover
nor Lucius E. Pinkham. late Fri-
I rlne ftprunnn nf- Spntor Pnnpv's
bill appropriating 51000 to en
courage tnlisment in the guard
and bring the various organizations
to tn 11 war streugh. The innnsv
is practically available at once.
Details of the publicity campaign
have not vet been fully worked
out bv Gen. Johnson and his staff
!tit active work will begin, he says,
the lirst of next week.
Work of preparing lists of enlist
ed men having wives, families or
mothers dependent on them, is
progressing, preliminary to grant
ing the citizen soldiers honorable
discharges from the guard and fil
ling their places with unmarried
men having no one dependent on
them. Advertiser.
arid spread the net across her com
ing track. The victim's captain,
seeing nothing, steering by com
pass, goes blindlv on, only to find
suddenly that something is wrong.
The bow of his boat wants to go
down, her rudders refuse to obey
the helm; her screws may stop
turning. He does not know what
the matter is, down there in the
dark, He may, shndderingly , sus
pect the great net in which he is
enmeshed If lie cannot move, he
knows that his buoyancy is only
due to what air there is in his air
tanks. He must go up or else go
tlown and stay there. Human na
ture prevails, and he goes up for
daylight, and then the shots ring
out. And after that nothing but
some bubbles and a long slick of
f oil on the restless sea.
MO newspaper can succeed with
1 out advertising, therefore we
solicit the patronage of our readers
for those who by their advertising
help to make this paper possible.
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