“The Foreign Office has presented to the House of Commons the full correspondence between Ambassador Page and Sir Edward Grey concerning the case. A memorandum from Germany concerning the sinking of the submarine includes affidavits from six Americans who were muleteers aboard the steamer _Nicosian_ and witnessed the _Baralong’s_ destruction of the submarine. A further affidavit from Larimore Holland, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who was a member of the crew of the _Baralong_, was submitted. All the affidavits speak of the _Baralong_ as disguised and flying the American flag.” [25] “Scientific American,” October 16, 1915. [26] In “Collier’s Weekly,” August 22, and 29, 1914. [27] This submarine was the _U-39_. On board her was an American boy, Carl Frank List, who was taken off a Norwegian ship and spent eleven days on the _U-39_, during which time she sank eleven ships. In each case the crew were given ample time to take to the boats. List’s intensely interesting narrative appeared in the “New York American” for September 3, 5, and 7, 1915. [28] “Von Weddigen, I was told, met his death chasing an armed British steamer. Commanding the _U-29_, he went after a whale of a British freighter in the Irish Sea, signaled her to stop. She stopped but hoisted the Spanish flag. As he came alongside, the steamer let drive with her two four-point-sevens at the submarine, sinking it immediately.” Statement of Carl Frank List. [29] Statement of Dr. Cecile L. Greil, the only native-born American on board. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Words spelled differently in quoted passages than in the author’s own text have not been changed. Simple typographical errors were silently corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Chapter II’s footnotes originally skipped number “3”. The omission is not apparent in this eBook, in which all footnotes are in a single ascending sequence. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. For consistency, all occurrences of “bow-foremost” and “stern-foremost” are hyphenated in this eBook. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of the Submarine, by Farnham Bishop