was keeping out the water sufficiently to allow her to
proceed under her own steam. In crippled condition she made for
port, being convoyed later by two British warships which answered
her calls for help.

In spite of the sharp diplomatic representations which were at
the time passing back and forth between Germany and the United
States over the matter of the German submarine warfare, the craft
kept up as active a campaign against merchant ships as they did
before the issues became pointed. On May 28, 1915, there came the
news that three more ships had been sent to the bottom. The
_Spennymoor_, a new ship, was chased and torpedoed off Start Point,
near the Orkney Islands. Some of her crew were drowned when the
lifeboat in which they were getting away capsized, carrying them
down. On the same day the large liner _Argyllshire_ was chased
and fired upon by the deck guns of a hostile submarine, but she
managed to get away. Not so fortunate, however, was the steamship
_Cadesby_. While off the Scilly Islands on the afternoon of May
28, 1915, a German submarine hailed her, firing a shot from a deck
gun across her bows as a signal to halt. Time was given for the
crew and passengers to get into small boats, and when these were
at a distance from the ship the deck guns of the submarine were
again brought into action, and after firing thirty shots into her
hull they sank her. The third victim was the Swedish ship _Roosvall_.
She was stopped and boarded off Malmoe by the crew of a German
submarine. After examining her papers they permitted her to proceed,
but later sent a torpedo into her, sinking her.

A new raider, the _U-24_, made its appearance in the English Channel
during the last week in May, 1915. On the twenty-eighth of the
month this submarine sank the liner _Ethiope_. The captain of the
steamship attempted some clever maneuvering, which did not accomplish
its object. He paid no attention to a shot from the deck guns of
the submarine which passed across his bow. The hostile craft then
began to circle around the liner, while the rudder of the latter
was put 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