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?. OFFICER OFN PRISONER . Lieut. Frank L. Muller, c By a German Subma 4 perience While in H * Aboard the Madawaska which brought troops from France was \ Lieut. Frank L. Muller, of Oakland, Cal., a survivor of the ill-starrea Ticonderoga which was sunk in September by a German submarine after a running fight which lasted for two hours. Lieut. Muller was executive officer of the Ticonderoga and was a captive aboard the u-boat which sank the vessel until it was surrendered j along with the rest of the German fleet late in November of last year. Lieut. Muller in speaking of his experience says that it seems like a "bad dream and that he can hardly' realize that it happened. The Ticonderoga was proceeding , from the United States to France as part of a convoy when it was attacked by u-boat 152 in mid ocean. The attack was made early in the morning of September 30, 1918. The ' lookout on the vessel sighted the submarine and the signal was given. An attempt was made to ram it, missing by five feet. Then started the battle which ended by the ship being j abandoned four minutes before it i sank and by the killing of most of: the men aboard. Heavy Damage by Germans. . 4, The submarine opened fire almost immediately. The first shell was fired at 5.40 a. m. and the attack lasted r" until 6.15 a. m., by which time the Germans had fired twenty-six times. | ^ Forty men had been killed, the threeinch gun of the ship had been put out of business, the steering appa.. f ratus smashed, and Capt. Madison, of the Ticonderoga, seriously wounded. The Germans were using shrapnel and in addition to the forty men killed about the same number had been wounded. The guns of the Ticonderoga were useless, as the ship . I ' could not be steered into a position whjerp they could be used. However, , * / about fifteen shots had been fired. At this time the u-boat submerged and Capt. Madison ordered Lieut. ' * Muller to have the debris cleared aWay. The entire superstructure of \ the Ticonderoga was afire, but was lj|' extinguished, the wounded were | cared for, and the auxiliary steering gear utilized. ; * - " This work was completed at 6.40 o'clock and five minutes later the | submarine reappeared about four miles off the port quarter of the ship, i The guns of the Ticonderoga were trained on it and fired, the subma-i I rine returning the fire. The distance . in targets may be appreciated inas-| much as the submarine appeared as a j gray streak in the water, while the merchant ship loomed high and was J an easy mark.to hit. The exchange of fire continued until 7.15 o'clock and the crew and am munition parties had to be replaced ^ several times, the men having been killed or disabled. It was then discovered that the vessel was sinking, 'it having been struck below .the ! - water line. All the woodwork had j 4 been shot away and it was nothing j more than a hulk. The decks were . covered with dead and wounded men, the aim of the Germans having been . J /good. Capt. Madison, during the entire time, although severely wounded, had been propped up against a bulkhead and had issued orders for the -defense of the ship. He now ordered that the vessel be abandoned and ... , i against his protest he was placed in one of the three lifeboats remaining undamaged. He fainted as the lifeboat was lowered. <4 Germans Sank Lifeboats. In each boat there were three able men and a load of wounded soldiers, j Two of these were sunk by the Ger-' mans as they pushed away from the ship, but the third lifeboat, No. 9, got away safely. Capt. Madison was in< this one. At 7.30 o'clock a torpedo was fired by the Germans at the Ticonderoga and it began to sink rapidly. At 7.35 o'clock Lieut. Muller and the remainder of the crew aboard the vessel took to a lifeboat and an old ^ wherry. Four minutes later when they were about 150 feet from the vessel it sank. On the raft were seventeen men and nine were in the wherry, Lieut. Muller being among them. The craft was clumsy and * could not he kept on an even keel. It would turn over and over with the waves and the nine men were kept scrambling up the sides as it turned, being half drowned each time it upset. Very shortly, according to Lieut. Muller, the wherry drifted among some potatoes from the Ticonderoga and' an effort was made to gather them. It was while doing this that the wherry capsized again and he was J caught under it. It was impossible tAD AW ASK A ON A U-BOAT if the Ticonderoga, Sunk rine, Tells of His Exlands of the Enemy. to dive from under the craft, as he had a lifebelt strapped tightly about him and very soon he lost consciousness after having been in the water ohrmt on hnnr U.UV/UV uu Found by Potato Hunters. One hour later, as he was told afterward, he was picked up by the crew of the stftmarine who were hunting for the potatoes. For three days he was put through a mental third degree in an effort to extract information concerning the movements of vessels and about the preparations of America as well. Then he was told that he would be heard [ aboard. The fourth day after being | captured he was informed that Lieut. 5 F. J. Fulcher, another officer of the Ticonderoga, was a prisoner aboard the submarine and that the craft was bound for the American coast. Lieut. Muller says that when he awoke from his stupor, after having i been captured, all doubt as to where he was was removed when he saw on the opposite side of the cabin pictures of Frederick the Great and von Hindenburg. The submarine proceeded toward the American coast for eleven days and was then 400 miles off New York city. October 11 an order came from the German admiralty to abandon the expedition to America and to cease operations. The captain of the BiiVimorino tnlrl T.iont Afnllor +Vjf lia UUMJLUU1 W*U AJiVUVi Uli^l V .at i*vy believed that the orders meant that negotiations for peace would be started bv the German government. October 20 the submarine was ordered back to Kiel and also ordered to discontinue all warfare on merchant ships. In these nine days there had been an engagement with a vessel every day and on the seventeenth threje merchantmen had been attacked. Lieut. Muller says that it was far from a nice feeling to be kept confined in the submarine while the attacks were proceeding when he could hear the shells whizzing by overhead. On the thirteenth a Norwegian ship, the Steifinder, a neutral vessel, was sunk by the Germans j after they had looted her of everyi thing of value. On the fifteenth the | submarine was depthbombed by two ' destroyers, nine bombs being dropI ped. On this day the u-boat also sank a ship. Joyous Over Armistice. After the order to proceed to Kiel was received submarine warfare was given up entirely. From November j 1 to November 9 the craft dodged I cruisers off the coast of Ireland. On the ninth it was bombed by a seai _ j plane in the North Sea. November 11, t^e day the armistice was signed, I the g^eat barrage of 160,000 mines j laid by the allies in the North Sea was crossed. | The joy of the Germans upon hearI ing of the armistice knew no bounds, j They were heartily sick of war and demonstrated the fact: Lieuts. Muller j and Fulcher were released as prisonj ers of war on this day. In passing through the Kattegat mine field the u-boat 156, returning from America, was blown up, but the 152 escaped. The craft arrived in Kiel on the 15th of November and Lieut. Muller says that red flags were everywhere, while the Soldiers' and Sailors' Council took charge of the submarine at j once. The commander-in-chief of j the German navy under this new govj ernment was a former seaman. The two lieutenants were treated well Inasmuch as the Reds were down on the German officers and in fact told the Americans that if they were insulted by any one to report it and the of! A U V_ J.-ii. ?*j ' - ' icuuci wuuiu ue ueau wun. L?ieui. Muller says that he believes the object of this was to make a good impression. The two officers remained in Kiel aboard the Kronprinz Heinrich, mother ships of the submarines, until November 20, when they were given permission by the Red government to travel aboard the submarine which had captured them to Harwich, England, where it was to be surrendered to the allies. They saw the surrender of the German submarine fleet and the flag of Great Britain raised over that of Germany. Welcomed by a Briton. Lieut. Muller says the first man to speak to him as he stepped ashore at Harwich, England, was Admiral Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the British admiralty. He said, "Welcome back to your own people." The English treated them royally and they were very much pleased with the reception. In speaking of the treatment aboard the submarine Lieut. Muller said he had no complaint to find. IX HANDS OF RECEIVERS. Co-operative Corporation Exhibits a Romance of Mismanagement. The Orangeburg Packing Company j went in the hands of temporary receivers Thursday when Judge I. W. | Bowman signed a temporary order, naming Mr. J.# Stokes Salley and Mr. S. A. Dantzler the receivers. The action was taken as a result of a complaint filed by a local bank, alleging insolvency, the preferment of certain creditors, and demanding the appointment of receivers. The step marks the beginning of the end of the local packing company as far as local stockholders are concerned as the fonoMi ^ ~ , 9vuv>ui liiipt COOlUll 19 that the debts are more than the sum which will probably be realized when the business is disposed. This com-! pany was organized several years ago as a result of a great campaign j by local citizens, assisted by extension department officials, and as a step towards meeting the competition of the boll weevil. With the weevil in the county, the plant goes into the receivership. Going into receivership doesn't mean, necessarily, that the plant will not resume operation. In all probability it will be bought by some packing concern, which may operate it here later as a part of their chain of packing plants. This will insure a packing house at Orangeburg, even if the stockholders lose money, and will give a market for livestock. The failure of the present plant is ascribed to many different things, among which are the dislocation of conditions by the war, the strength of outside competition, and poor management. Even the friends of the present company do not deny that the management of the industry in this city has been inefficient and that the product Of the nlant ermlrf nM A - - v-w W14AU UVt disposed of advantageously locally. The failure of the Orangeburg Packing Company is generally regretted, and its financial losses will be scattered over three or four counties, although, the bulk of its stock is held by citizens in Orangeburg, and the surrounding country. ?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. This Is Prom Boston. " 4 Mother?That young man of yours is simply impossible. He doesn't like Shaw; he doesn't like Ibsen; he doesn't like Galsworthy. Whom doe9 he like? Daughter (demurely)?Me.?Boston Transcript. The warfare practiced by the Germans upon merchants ships was terrible, he said. They thought it was good treatment accorded the crew of a Norwegian bark which they sank when they put them adrift in small boats 1,000 miles from shore. The captain of the under-water craft was prone to discuss politics with the American officers. He asked why America was in the war and did the Americans want war. Lieut. Mullor tnW V?im in n/* ? wm xxAixz m i?\j uncertain terms \ . i that America did not want war, but was fighting because Germany had violated every law of humanity, and America had principles to uphold. All of the German officers -spoke good English. The captain was very anxious to get President Wilson's opinion on every subject connected with the war and asked for an explanation of the famous fourteen points which Lieut. Muller said he furnished to the best of his knowledge. Aboard the vessel was a copy of Ambassador Gerard's book, "My Four Years in Germany," and the captain said that if they ever got Gerard back in Germany they would make each of those four years seem like ten to him. They did not like the reference to the German people as Huns and barbarians. In the course of one of their talks the captain told Lieut. Muller that he and his fellow officer were being held prisoners, not because they wanted to save them from drowning, but as proof of the sinking of the Tfconderoga.?News and Courier. ' J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER I rTTTAT)\rPVC Ann T. A TIT /xx x uxm in jl u-rxx-xxrx n Special attention given to settlement of Estates and investigation of Land Titlea. BAMBERG. S. 0. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days "LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyprepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c per bottle. I RILEY & COPELAND I Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copland's Store BAMBERG. 8. O. 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