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EARLY MORNING FATIGUE, When you awake in the morning feel ing tired out, feeling worse, in fact, than when you went to bed, you are confronted with one of the characteristic symptoms of neurasthenia, It is due to the run- down condition of your nerves that rest does not bring renewed strength and sleep refresh the tired brain. Overwork and this condition. Neurasthenia is the name worry are the most frequent causes of given to this common form of nervous debility in which the power to recuperate 23 gone.
THE GĦAND FLEKT”
SIR J. JELLICOE AND THE ADMIRALTY.
THE CLOSE OF A DUEL.
LORD KITCHENER'S DEATH. jback, for no man who went to sleep ever
THE FINAL SCENE.
STORIES OF SURVIVORS.
A silent but none the less interesting The Secretary of the Admiralty has
- duel" between Sir John Jellicoe and issued for publication the conclusions the Admiralty has been closed at last by the surrender of the officials to the sea-arrived at as a result of the inquiry held man, says a correspondent of the ninto the loss of the ampshire with Lord ing Standard. The struggle has heen in
follows:4:
woko again. When men died it was just as though they were falling aslep. Ons man stood upright for five hours on a raft with dead lying all around him. Another man diéd in my arms. As we got near the shore the situation grew worse, The wind was blowing towards the shore and the fury of the sea dashed. our raft against the rocks with tremen- way, and one raft was overturned three Many were killed in this times. I do not quite know how. I got
dous force.
ne. But we were very kindly trented by the people who picked us up. They said there for years. it was the worst storm they had had
progress almost ever since the war broke Kitcher and his Staff. The 19 surashore, for all feeling had gone out of out, and although public sympathyvivors were examined at the inquiry, throughout has been with the Admiral, it has hitherto scented impossible to get the circumstances of the disaster are as The conclusions arrived at concerning Whitehall to change its view.
The point at issue was not of great strategical importance. It was more a Te Hampshire was proceeding along matter of sentiment though it has its
the west coast of the Orkneys; a the It concerned strategien side.
heavy gale was blowing, with the description of the great feet under the
soas breaking over the ship, which command of Sir John. For some years
necessitated ber being partially hat past the squadrons in the North Sea and.
teaed down. the Channel had laen called the Home Between 7:30 and 7.45 p.a. the vessel Fleets by the Admiralty. When Sir John Jellicoe first hoisted his flag be followed that nomenclature, but he had not been in command there werks before he public- ly altered the name of his command, and revived the fue old historic phrase *Grand Fleet. This was in his message of congratulations tho the Army: on the brilliant retreat from Mons,
The Admiralty would have none of it. The Home Fleets was in the Navy List. and the Home Flects it must remain. | There was a faint sign of weakening when submarine attieke one of our squadrons in the North Sen and was rand by the Birmingham. Then the secirry of the Arimiralty's nonounce merferred to the Main Fleet." That however, was an ugly phrase, and the Admiral would have none of the com promise.
WHEN THE KING WENT NORTH.
Although I do not really know what happened, my belief is that the Hamp
hire struck " mine which exploded under her fore part. It could not have heen a subinarine in such weather. An internal explosion in one of the maga zines would have ripped the ship apart. It was hard luck to come to such an end struck a mine and began at once to after going through the Horn Reef battle suttle by the bows, heeling over to unscathed. In that battle we led the starboard before she finally went Iron Duke into netion, and our shells down about 15 minutes after.
sank a German light cruiser and two Orders were given by the Captain for all submarines. We did not have a singlo hands to go to their established. sta-casualty in our ship, although big shells tions for abandoning ship. Some of fairly rained into the water all around the batches were opened and the us." ship's company went quickly to their stations.
for Lord
THE BINKING OF THE SHIP.
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Efforts were, made without success to First Class Petty Officer Wilfred Wes- lower some of the boats, one of them sun, who was the first man to scramble being broken in half during the pro-shore from one of the rafts, says: cess and her occupants thrown into "At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the water.
Monday, June 5th, we eviharked Lord As the men were moving up one of the Kitchener and his Staff on a special mis- hatchways to their stations, Lord on, but we did not know where we were Kitchener, accompanied by a Naval going with them. The weather was very Officer appeared; the latter called rough, so rough that the two destroyers uut, "Make way for Lord Kitchener which escorted us were sent back. and they both went up on to the 8 p.m., while the watch below were stand- Quarter Deck, and subsequently foaring by their hammocks ready to turn in, Military Officers were seen on the an explosion occurred. 1 was on the Quarter Deck walking aft on the mess dock at the time. When the explo purt side.
s'on happened all lights immediately Captain called
went out and. terrible draught "came... Kitelner to come ap to the for rushing along the mess dock, blowing all bridge near where the Captain's boat the men's cups off. We did not know was hoisted; he was also heard call what had happened, so we walked aft ing fur Lord Kitchener to get into to the only hatch that had not been bat the boat, but no one is able to say toned down owing to the bad weather, whether Lord Kitchener got into the While I was waiting with the others on buat or not, nor what occurred to the half dock an officer came with Lord this boat, nor did any one see any Kitchener from the captain's cabin. He of the bonts get clear of the ship. called out, "Make room for Lord Large numbers of the crew used their Kitchener," and the men opened out to fe-saving belts, waistcoats, etc.. let Lord Kitchener pans. He went on which appear to have proved effec deck and I did not son any more of birt tive in keeping them afloat.
after that.. Three rafts were safely launched, and, with about 50 to 70 men on each of them, got clear of the ship. private soldier appears to have leftmen swarmed up them in hundreds from the ship on one of the rafts, but it is the meas deck. On looking around Law not known what became of him. was light up to about 11 p.m.
Even the Court newsman sided with the rebellion," and the Court Virenłaz in March, Jala, stated that the King had been on a visit to a portion of the Grand
That 2 Flowt.
vut andermined the Ad- The
When the miralty's position badly, Archbishop of York and Prime Minister respectively disappeared into the north- ern mists to see the ships, the official com munications were allowed to speak of the Grand Fleet, but when there was any fighting to be done we were promptly Bir hurried back to Home Fleets." Dudley de Chair's despatch on the work of the blockading cruisers was preceded in the London Gazette by an official noto, to the effect that the Commander in Chief, Home Fleets, speak in the highest ferns of the runner in which the patrol
ruisers have done their work."
Now, quite quietly, the Admiralty have given up the fight. Dr. Maciamara has introduced into the House of Commons A a Bill to amend the Naval Discipline Act as regards certain povers appertaining to the office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Grauil Fiest." Mr. Balfour has
backed the Bill (which is of no partisutas public interest apart from the mere pro Perice of those two worda*** Grand Flee "gud the "surrender !!
plete. We may in futuro speak of tho Brand Fleet without any fear of the De- fence of the Realm Act or misprison of treason for any minor felony,
A PRILAGE WITH 'A - CLÀNG. The phrase itself dates back more than two centuries; the time when the Jessons of Drake and the Elizabethans had been assimilated by the rulers of Englood, and the influence of sen power- on history had begun to be understood, Then the Grand Fleet of Britain was that squadron which was employed on the must important work, which took it " those days far from home waters, to spend long months in the Mediterranean. The sailor's songs of those days which have been preserved speak of "The Grand Fleet, so that the form was in common
use.
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Sir John Jellicoe soon saw through the error and corrected it. The publie fol- lowed his lead without in the least ander standing why, though perhaps the al common sense of a race of seafarers told title. Also there is a clang, and a music them instinctively that his was the right about: the phrase that is wholly lacking in the prosaic • Home Fleets."
LAY OF NEW ENGLAND.
It
I went on deck and helped to tear away.
As these were opened the the hatches.
that the crew were at their stations, for abandoning skip, so I went to No. Traft and remained there until the water camu
Though the rafts with these large up to the ridge ropes. The ship went
bors of men got safely away, in one
case out of over 70 men on board, down forward and sank in about a quar posix only survived; the survivors allter of an hour. The three circular rafte report that much gradually dropped were launched. I picked up some mení off and even died on board the ralts who had been wounded by the explosion from exhaustion, exposure, and cold.and put them on the gratings in the bot- Then I launched the Some of the crew must have perished tom of our raft. trying to land on the rocky coast raft, upon which there were at the time after such long exposure and some We paddied clear of the ship, and when about 43 men, including the wounded. died after landing.
we had got about 50 yards from her sho turned and went right over. Some men · were in the boats waiting for, the water ti lift them up. When the ship turned over it took them all down in her vortex. The galleys upset while being lowered, and the whaler broke in two, as it was being launched. It was impossible to "I was the last of the survivors to see derricks would not work in consequence launch the boats properly because the Lord Kitchener before leaving the ship of the water in the ship having cut off in the papers I notice that his lordship the electric current. I saw men jump offi is said to have been drowned by the over-
SA LAST GLIMPSE OF LORD
KITCHENER...
We are able (says The Times) to sup pleinent this brief official version by the towing independent accounts of the sink'ng of the Hampshire :——
"FORTY-THREE MEN ON A-HAFT.
turning of a buat, but this is not correct the quarterdeck as the ship turned over. Lord Kitchener went down with the ship. He did not leave her. I saw Captain
While our raft was beating towards Savill helping his boat's crew to clear a the shore we picked up many, mm from time was calling to Lord Kitchener to raft, As you know, there were only 18 way to the galley. The captain at this the water and dragged them on to the go to the boat, but owing to the noise survivors from the whole ship's com of the wind and the gen Lord Kitchener
They
As our power at sea grew, and the need for scattered squadrons in many oceans ed to, dispersion of ships under various admirals, the phrase tended to dis out and the pans Channel Squadron arose to describe that force most nearly concerned with horno defence. EA
"Home Fleets is n modern phrase, apparently could not hear him. When pany. On my raft there were 42 when we and is the outcome of muddled thinking, the explosion occurred Lord Kitchener reached the shore. Among them were an The main strength of Britain at sea cane walked cabaly from the captain's cabin, carpenter. On the way we could see mon assistant paymaster, a. gunner, and a to be concentrated in home waters ten went up the ladder and
on to the sinking as they were making towards the years ago, because the main threat to our quarter deck. There I saw him walking beach. The place where the ship went power at sea was concentrated near those quite coolly and collectedly up and down down was about three miles from the waters, and not because the British Em-talking to two of his officers. All three hore, and but for the awful weather the pire could necessarily be best defended were wearing khaki without overcoats. whole crew would probably have been near to the shores of Britain.
In fact, they were dressed just as they saved The seas were terrible: " were when they boarded the ship. overtaa us and kept swamping the raft least perturbed, but calmly waited the The cold was bitter and we suffered Lord Kitchener did not seem in the instead of drifting it along before them. preparations for abandoning the ship, greatly from it, especially as surse of the which were going on in a quiet, strady stations, obeying orders steadily, and when we reached the shore When the and orderly way. The crew went to their men wore only half clothed.
4Every one was thoroughly exhausted did their best to get out the boats, but raft grounded I jumped off and waited that proved impossible: Owing to the until the next wave took me further in. Your blood can be built up so that it
rough weather no boats could be lowered; Then somehow I scrambled to the top of will increase the supply of needed ele
those that were got out were smashed the cliff. When I tried to stand up thern ments to the wasted nerves, and this is
up at once. No bosts left the shit found my feet would not support me the only way that the nerves can be
What the people our shore thought to be and I fell down again. Seeing a house in reached. Dr. Williams pink pills are a
boats leaving were three rafts. Men did the distance I crawled to it and tried tonic that
Mr. F. D. Auland, M.P., Parliament get into the boats as they lay in their to wake up the occupants. After shout- because they supply to the blood the ary Secretary to the Board of Agricul cradles thinking that as the ship went ing about 10 minutes I got a response, but
especially builds up the nerves
Many ture, presiding at the annual meeting of from under them the boats would Boat when the people came to me and I tried nervous disorders, sometimes chronic the Women's Farm and Garden Union. But the ship sank by the head, and when to explain to them what had happened ones, have yielded to this tonic treatment at Chelsea Hospital, said that if he were she did she turned a complete somersault I could not. They took me inside, wrap- with Dr. Williams pink pills when other asked for a description of what the post forward, carrying down with her all the ped me in blankets and put me in bed methods failed to give relief. They are
tion ought to be in English agriculture boats and those in them. I do not think with hot water bottles. Meanwhile I had. certainly worth a trial,
this summer he should modify, and adapt Lord Kitchener got into a boat at managed to make theju understand some the well-known lines of Macaulay as When I sprang on to a raft he was still thing about my companions Rescue follows: ---
on the starboard side of the quarter-parties of farmers living round about The burvest of East Anglia,
deck talking to his officers. I won't say got ropes and went to the cliffs and This year old maids must reap. he did not feel the strain of the perilous saved all they could find." This year young boys in Cumberland situation like the rest of us, but be garo Other servivors tell similar stories of
Must dip the struggling sheep.
no outward sign of nervous083, and their experiences They say that many And in the pails of Lunedale.
from the little time that elapsed between perished from cold and exposure through This year the milk must fosi From the white bands of strapping girls feel certain that Lord Kitchener went ashore. Many others were killed by being my leaving the ship and her sinking the awful sea as the calls were drifting Whose sires are gone from home.”... I think it is almost the thing now the time.
dow with her standing on the deck at dashed against the rocks, which were to have a daughter going through his suite 1. saw nothing.
Of the civilian members of precipitous and jagged. They estimate course of training or working on 鸨
that where the rait landed the rocks wero farm,” added Mr. Acland. Hỏ thought
over 80ft. high, and all efforts to sleer that the organisation might use its influ-
into a safer landing plate proved futile. ence in small-country towns, and get the “I got away on one of the rafts and All of the survivors were badly bruised daughters and sisters of the local doe we had a terrible ive hours in the water, and their hands tora by scrambling up tors, solicitors, or merchants to assist in It was so rough that the sea bent down the rock face and the cliff, but they speak the work. Already there were reports on us and many men were killed by the 'għly of the kindness shown to them by of the good quality of the work done buffeting they received. Many others the Orkney people. Thanks to the ad- It was not too much to say that the safe died from the fearful cold. I was quite mirable care with which they have been ty of the nation depended upon, and bennbod. An almost overpowering de treated at the naval hospitals, all the could be secured by the efforts made byeire to sleep came upon us, and to get survivors are now suficiently recovered English women.
over this we thumped each other on the to go to their homes for a period of rest.
elements that the nerves" need..
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