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STORIES OP`THE FIGHT;
HEROICS AND LAUGHTER.
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THE JUTLAND VICTORS. hall that went whiulay over them, and four men at ses never bother their how he leapt to this feat, chickling like bead about it. What can be done with schoolby, imigdiately afterwards, to men, like those of the Warspite ? It įdiek no more that days,
is hot that they feel superior to it. They They haven truck at all with hew content with realities, and they bergsbury them away with wimply do not care about the rest, wholesome, laughter. No good man n The Jucand battle has been described
risk of being frozen into wurkings our greatest avar victory in statue in the British Navy do not Trafalgar. Bus it is far more than that. believe there is one officer in the Fed The whole scale of our warfare, has
in a fight that extended over two day who could be caught in any single altered, as Trafalgar we lost 180 men
It was that Cruiser Fleet that ngaged and held the carmy during the battle of Jutland; and it was the Battle
Cruiser Fleet that I had an opportunity
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Then came the most striking contrast that. I have ever experienced. A smart crew of bluejackets brought a best up to aquay and very soon we were butting through grey water towards a cluster of leas grey era, that looked, at first, as unimpressive as a lot croating datirons. Only they seemed to be made of lear, soft lead; and if there be haything there lifeless, more corpselike, than this fight
attitude at a Press photographer would
night.
THE "WARKITEXT ELE The men of the Warpito had admirable opportunity and-like Shokus- peare-they lost it for a quibiyle..
I suppose that 1 must be regarded as an uncommonly black liar by any Ger an, ypathizer who reads this article
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This is the way in which they tended aside their crowns of heroism. In the hottest part of the tight they had executed an extraordinary wanœuvre. Tbo
A Jutland we lost over 6,000 men in three hours. And the Germans it ta ships would justify for they had put to inore heavily even than their pes in
with double guns-crans, and they sero over-manned. So said. rhong wha knew what they were talking about on the Dritish Cruiser, Fleet
of ring, wonentere in the North writes Mr. Alfred Soges in his st copy right article.
On any way to it passed the grey castle of Edinburgh. & red-faced akl soldier was still telling a crowd of tourists Dec, 24 about the baby, wrapped in clath of
if any de-for his friends tell him thored on the morms of a grim reality like But as for painting the newspaper. 1917
gold." "which was discovered a year or the Warspite is at the bottom of the this, what can you expect of seamen who Through Steamer Јад. 3 Jan. 14
two age to the wall of Queen Mary's, whereas I na tell that on leaving behave with complete disregard of-the EAISER-I-HIND.....] Jas.
But there were wounded the Inflexible" I personally visited the proprieties? In the very hottest mortent 14 Jan 31 chamber: Through Steamisë Jin.
Feb. 11 Folliers in one part of the castle now Warspite and wie her holes being of his most stupendous battle in of 91
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Feb. 124. Feb. 19 and a brawny Senttish regiment, with kils patched. six weeks after the Jutland history to grimy stakers' heads aroor for Through Steamer ..Pob. 28 Mar. 11a brapet, preparinis for the front in hattle. She was even then ready for * ARABIA
Mar. 11 Mar 18another part. The most romantic of action again.
a breath of fresh air. What domesti I is true that she had cities was all astic, with history again been battered heavily, for she had taken drains they were discussing the world in the musking; and over the grey crosses, ou no less than eight German ships Oney never know. But the words that, commemorating old battles, the bold, hole was about the size of a small church were actually heard passing between [bugles, blowing points of war," rung window.. and she had many dents. But were these What I say is—'e night then while the shells whined overhead. fem the ancient heights and echoed all the real damage done was not great, and down the Cunon-gate, to die away in the the spirits of her men were very great
to a married eel
What can the Press what an halis of Holyrood. All the colour of a indeed. chausscd years of "war had come back,
Cormany' de-with men so indecently like fr to the face of a tranced
unhernie? sleeper, and added a signideance and a
to the grim engine rooms, where the To understand it you must go down glamvar to the new forms of power which I was about in see. Never did. Britain Warrior" was being very badly pauled to think them out will give you brain complications of machinery-if you try seem so secure as in this fortress of a, at the time; and the Waespite ezme thosami menosies; and the old gun that between her and the enemy, taking all
fever. Or you must go into one of the booned the boat of noon from the the punishment, paying as much back and watch them landing those mon- great turrets with the gun crew-as I- ranspurts seemed mightier than anything as she could, and slowly revolving ke
strous machines with shells that weigh a that Krupp rould conceive.
a great cut chasing its tail, all her guus ton and can be thrown for 20 miles. You coming into play in turn. The "Warrior" was saved, and every one aboard agreeded in with steel so narrow that it must watch them in that narrow space, that this mumeuvre of the Warspite ema impossible for Hesh and blood to was a new and a remarkable one, deserstand the mere concussion of the huge ing of inch gratitude. Whereupon a discharge; a narrow space of details so deputation was wear to the Warspite compact and minute that men must sit bekring gilt-boxes of cigars and sundry there on bicycle saddles while they are bottles-that would is most cases arouse battering down at Empire. Then you enthusiast. Take 'em, mates.. saved as," said the grateful emissarica. for these men to be emotionally "quick will understand that it is a impossible * Take 'em back, you-blighters," was the on the trigger" as it would be to use one reply, reared through a rate of Homeric of their guns for a pocket pistol, or for Hat they grew on we cared them, grew daughter. Take 'em back. We didn't the British Empire to lose its celm till the great one of theft tarrots gave try to save you. We was chasing our and move with the rapidity of Mexican signiteance to their superstructure. The own damned tail. 'Ow could we help raiders. this does not mean that exquisite Ines became ergue and it Dur, elm was jangael separated clearly from the grey chaos of The next to looms up out of the grey a battleship, even though the battleship A pocket pistol has ang superiority over water: then, as the "first", great ship mists
"Lion", and the take an hour and a hall to get upsteam. towered above us, massive as a fortress, Tiger," both ready for ses at any Nor does it mean that these men, are sensitive as a stag to every flicker or moment, as also were other ships wink of a signal in all the circle of the reported by Berlin to be heavily damaged, horizon, I read her name. The meaning but showing remarkably few traces, even of those six letters under the brooding when the cars were pointed out by might of her gons, was that could hur experts, Ship after ship we passed, on a ton of metal for 20 miles, went through our way to the much desired. truser me like a trumpet tall To was the where hunch awaited us and incidentally "Canada. And one of her bluejackets the best of all cocktails, in compliment was talking with two days to a ship only to an American guest who was with the a quarter of a mile away, whose name party. It was indeed an excellent cock Was Australia. And a lite way, har after funcity as we watched behind them lay the New Zealand neaplane soaring overhead and looping the Then I began—faintly—to understand loop like tumbler pigeon, the American
One veil had been lifted for me, when once more the sources of majesty, and guest a gentleman with 'n wife and I saw those marvellous armed auxiliaries, the true glory of my country, in the love family, too implored that he might a few score of their thousands, patrol of her free nations. I do not know forthwith be taken ap into the heavens ling cur consts. Another veil had been whether it was the American Revolution, for the same purpose. And what would lifted to-day on this gigantic host, which that taught us our lesson; but I do know the Admiralty way to me if anything had encountered and beaten the whole that this quick arrival of Fleets and happened?" asked the captain. No, might the German Navy. There was Armies from the ends of the earth je a Sir. Send along some of the byphenate yet another veil which bad not been terrible answer to many propagandists, kind, and we'll try it."
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if you stand behind armour, you got and mon of the Battle Cruiser Fleet, killed by splinters, walle on the bridge, that they were brimming with satisfaction unless they get a direct hib, the abell over the result of the Jutland battle. goes clean through without hurting you. I asked them about those curious pen I was all the past of England spear It was the most pleasant philosophy for tenses in the Jellicos report, describinging, from the days of Shakespeare all exposed positions that could be imagined a heavy explosion, felt by all the Battle the little grey-spires and towers of her but he omitted all the real points of Cruiser Fleet simultaneously, at dusk, russot-roofed hamlete all the dead of comparison. A junior officer looked at after the enemy had withdrawn. The ** this dear, dear land, this bizssed plot, him reproachfully. Well, the captain nearest German ship at the time was at this realm, this earth, this England per annars. muttared to himself, almost sheepishly least five miles away; and the explosion Themen did 201 sing. They have no as if caught in a lie, perhaps one can most have been a terrific one, for six of talent in opera. They did not even re exaggerate it
"There is no sase of man in the world ouertisers imagined that they them speak Bob I know how they would more cotirely tres from every kind of when chillary reasons
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German entered their beads. They are quite loses which, sheolitely sad relatively, in ready to tell you, with a roar of laughter, the number of ships and the tonnage how so-and-so crouched like a cat, mody also are definitely to jump, with his eye cocked at the funt
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