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. YORK HOY ABOAKH Sl'BMARlXK. Held for Twenty-three Days and Finally Landed a l'riNmei in Berlin. York. July 14.?Three weeks aj prisoner on the German u-boat ?'.? . which on February s torpedoed the Norwegian freight steamer storskog. on which he was a seaman, held a captive in Berlin from March k to June 13. James Moore, the 1S-yearold son of \Y. T. Moore, of York, returned home this week after a series - " ? rtKvAA/1 thot orvinirlc OI elU > fc?Il I UI CTS aui"au uiai cviuiua like sheer romance. That they are trvie in every particular.- however, no one doubts who is familiar with the youth's reputation for veracity, while the letter received some tiii}e ago by his father from the Norwegian shipping firm announcing that his son was detained in the German capita! following his capture as the result of the sinking of the Storskog by a submarine bears out the lad's stirring narative of shipwreck in the treacherous waters of the war zone. Young .Moore as a lad of 15 left York three years ago and after drifting from point to point in the North finallv shiDued from Newport News, Va., as an able seaman on a vessel bound for France. After crossing the Atlantic he made voyages to various pairts of the world under the flags of several different nations. He experienced many vicissitudes, but nothing specially out of the ordi' nary occurred until Feoruary S, when the freighter, Storskog, on which he was an able seaman and the only American on board, was torpedoed by a German u-boat. The vessel was carrying.a cargo or grain and was bound from Buenos Ayres to Queenstown. The story of what happened is best told in Moore's own words: "It was about midday when the torpedo crashed against our ship and I was sound asleep. The explosion was terrific and, of course, awoke me instantly. The vessel seemed blown clear out of the water and then settled "down, listing heavily forward. Everybody was excited, but there was no panic. A hurried attempt was made to launch the six lifeboats, but three were crushed against the sides of the ship. The other three were successfully launched and all of us, with the engineers and firemen, crowded in. "We pulled clear of the sinking ship, which was now being .shelled by the submarine and in a few minutes it went to the bottom. After the Storskog had been disposed of the u-boat turned her attention to the life boats. All three were wrecked in as many shots and the first thing I knew I was struggling in the water, which seemed icy cold and chilled me through and through. Why they did it, I will never know, but maybe the . sight of us struggling for life in the water caused the Germans to relent a little, for seven of us, gasping and . benumbed, were taken aboard the submersible. The only injury I suf- j fered during the affair was a bruise ] to my right knee which still causes < me to limp a little. 5 ! ^We were treated fairly well on ] the U-60, being given a fair allow- i ance of bread and water twice a day. ( We were closely guarded and given no opportunity to do any harm, even < if we had been so inclined. Their j fare s^med almost as meagre as \ ours, though they had a few sweets to give variety. Nearly every mem- t ber of the crew of 33 men could ^ speak English and the commander < hajl lived in the United States sev- t eral years, could discourse in our i language almost as fluently as an i American. The Germans were not q averse to talking to us, but could not i be induced to discuss the war. De- ( ^ spite our crowded quarters and em- ( barrassing predicament, we were not t as uncomfortable as might be imagin- j ed, though I could not say that life t on a u-boat is especially attractive. s "We cruised about day after day. our captors keeping a sharp lookout t for vessels. They found them, too, ( and in the 23 days that we were < aboard the u-boat,/11 were torpe- j doed. None of them made any re- ( sistance. At last, after life in our < new quarters had become monoto nous and irksome to us, the subma- ] rine ran into the harbor of Heligo- 1 land. At this place we were put : aboard a torpedo boat and taken to j U'A U'CkTlt hi' T?Q i 1 I xjiciiicii, n u m wmvu *? ^ ksj iuu to Berlin. : "I was without funds when I arriv- < ed in the German capital and would ; have had a tough time there had I not by good fortune made the ac- ; quaintance of an American, F. W. 1 Kina, through whose generosity 1 ,* was supplied with all J;he money I i \ needed. 1 was given considerable i liberty about the city but was required to report at the police station i every night, after which 1 was locked i up until morning. ""Are provisions scarce in Berlin?' Yes, indeed. and actual want and distress are apparent on every hand. Myji print* pal diet, strange as it may j i seem, was turnips, aad this vegetable and black bread seemed to be the < principal diet, strange as it may tire population. Meat is terribly i scarce and sells at almost prohibitive prices. The food question takes " INVINCIBLE DEMOCRACY. How the President's War Message Has Stirred the World. | President Wilson's war speech is J ; to he read in every school in France, j It is publicly posted in France and Italy. It was hailed as a charter of; democracy in Britain, which before the war was fast becoming a republic in all but name. Supplementing the revolution and followed by our own j declaration of irreconcfliable Rus-|l sia. a sister nation in the creed that "the world must be made safe for democracy." The anxious small powers now see in it safety from greedy neighbors. Such ferment of thought as makes these times worth living in. despite the shock of battle and rapine, could not leave Germany unmoved. The speech, garbled at first, has now been printed there, as they say. in full. What effect it is expected to have is shown by the futile rage with which the obedient press receives it and the epithets with which they pelt its author. America was not forgitten if the emperor really bade the chancellor prepare plans for liberalizing the Prussian electoral system, including the upper chamber of the reactionary diet. But the inevitable reforms are to be deferred until "the home com- < ing warriors" can "join in the counsel and the voting on the progress of the new order." Delay until the war ends may prove impracticable. German Lib- ' erals know how reforms promised in 1S4S were snatched away. Longing for peace., the most powerful motive, spreads the new ideas. The United States has i}o quarrel with the Ger- i man people. New Russia borrows | our phrases to hold out the olive . branch to German democracy on the basis of racial freedom. Soldiers in q the trench.es put the case tersely in big: sogns/for the enemy to read: "Get Rid of Your Kaiser!" t The kaiser has no idea that Ger- 1 many can dispense with him. His J* champions propose a "Yolkskonig- ] turn" or popular monarchy, not yef defined. Nothing hastens action like T events. Democracy is swiftly be- J coming invincible. Germany, at i heart, must be facing the fact.?New York World. 1 . 1 BIG WAR APPROPRIATIONS. About- $*.000,000,000 Will l>e Asked of Congress. s e . ~~ _ iJ Washington. July 13.?War appro- a priations of about thfree billion dol- jj Lars in addition to the enormous ^ sums already appropriated or sought, j will be asked of congress in estimates c which administration officials have a ?iven notice will be submitted next ^ week. All the appropriations contemplated for war purposes in the aear future will be grouped in a general deficiency bill, a draft of which already is under preparation by the louse appropriation committee. Next c week officials will appear before the committee to explain their estimates. The exact total is uncertain as some big items are yet to be sub- f nitted, but there is no Question in t lie minds of the congressional lead- J1 Is ers that they will foot up close to the v hree billion dollar mark. That vould bring the total appropriations s exclusively on account of the war at his session of congress, including 1 oans to the allies up to about ten i lillions. The new measure will cover some estimates already submitted a ncluding $100,000,000 for emergen- 6 ;y naval constructions-and $45,000,- 7 >00 for naval aircraft, aviation sta- 1 An'al nvnorinionfc Thp 1 , iUilS duu acnai tAfv.iuuvitiu. A ..V. )ending ?640,000,000 general avia- t ion measure will be handled as a J separate bill. !f Information is lacking as to the deailed purposes of the bulk of the contemplated demands for war money and it is assumed that part of it ;s for carrying out projects which cannot be revealed for military reasons. precedence over everything else over :here and no wonder, when you realize how limited is their supply. The sale of all foodstuffs, as you probably know, is regulated by the government. The people produce their :ards and secure it in specified amounts and at specified prices." Moore would not divide the exact particulars concerning his release by the Germans on June I'6, and neither would he tell just where the Storskog encountered the submarine. 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