THE BOY ALLIES

Under the Sea

OR

The Vanishing Submarines

By ENSIGN ROBERT L. DRAKE

AUTHOR OF The Boy Allies in the Baltic, The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol,
The Boy Allies Under Two Flags, The Boy Allies with the Flying Squadron,
The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas

1916

CONTENTS

THE BOY ALLIES UNDER THE SEA.

CHAPTER I.

A MYSTERY.

"What I would like to know," said Frank Chadwick, "is just how long England intends to put up with the activities of the German submarines in the waters surrounding the British Isles."

"How long?" echoed Jack Templeton. "Surely you know that England is already conducting a vigorous campaign against them."

"I don't seem to have heard anything of such a campaign," returned Frank dryly; "but another big liner was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland yesterday. What are we going to do about it? That's what I want to know."

"I'll tell you a little something you don't seem to know," said Jack. "In the last thirty days, in the neighborhood of a hundred German submarines have disappeared—sunk or captured—no one seems to know which. Nevertheless, it is a fact. Through diplomatic channels word has been received in London that a large number have failed to return to their bases. The German government is much disturbed."

"Where have they gone?"