t at a
wide angle in an effort to keep either stern or bow of the ship toward
the submarine, thus making a poor target for a torpedo. But the
commander of the submarine saw through the movement and ordered fire
with his deck guns. After shells had taken away the ship's bridge and
had punctured her hull near the stern the crew and passengers were
ordered into the small boats. They had hardly gotten twenty feet from
their ship when she was rent by a violent explosion and went down.

The transatlantic liner _Megantic_ had better luck, for she managed to
escape a pursuing submarine on May 29, 1915, as she was nearing
Queenstown, Ireland, homeward bound. A notable change in the methods
adopted by the commanders of submarines as a result of orders issued
by the German admiralty in answer to the protests throughout the press
of the neutral nations after the sinking of the _Lusitania_ was the
giving of warning to intended victims. By the end of May, 1915, in
almost every instance where a German submarine stopped and sank a
merchantman the crew was given time to get off their ship and the
submarine did not hesitate to show itself. In fact, warning to stop
was generally given when the submarine's deck was above water and the
gun mounted there had the victim "covered." This was done in the case
of the British steamship _Tullochmoor_, which was torpedoed off Ushant
near the most westerly islands of Brittany, France.

On the 1st of June, 1915, there came the news of the sinking of the
British ship _Dixiana_, near Ushant, by a German submarine which
approached by aid of a clever disguise. The crew managed to get off
the ship in time; when they landed on shore they reported that the
submarine had been seen and on account of sails which she carried was
thought to be an innocent fishing boat. The disguise was penetrated
too late for the _Dixiana_ to make its escape.

The clear and calm weather which came with June, 1915, made greater
activity on the part of German submarines possible. On the 4th of
June, 1915, it was reported by the British admiralty that six more
ships had been made victims, three of them being those of neutral
countries. In the next twenty-four hours the number was increased by
eleven, and eight more were added by the 9th of June, 1915.

On that date Mr. Balfour, Secretary of the British admiralty,
announced that a German submarine had been sunk, though he did not
state what had been the scene of the action. At th