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DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND.
FETS IN THE BATTLE
THE MIND OF THE NAVY
BY RUDYARD KIPLING.] What mystery is there like the mystery of the other man's job or what world Moterate mossoon will be interrupted to the cut off as that which he enters when north of Foochow, but will continue to ble
north part of the N. China Sea
Vahan," being a
THE CLOSING, NOTE,
And the Hun's gunneryTM
and scrupulously impartial as the And That was various. Sometimes they ings of a Prize Court. It opines that. began quite well, and went to pieces after the list of ceny losses which it submits they'd been strafed a little; but sometimes { " gives the minimum in regard to num- they picked up again.. There was one bers, thought it is possibly not entirely Han-boat that got no end of a hammering accurate în regard to the particular class and it seemed to do her gunnery good of vessel, especially theses that were sauk She
till wo tremendously improved
sank during the night attacks." Here the expect, we'd knocked out some, scientific Hun in the controls and he'd matter rests and remains-just like our blockades. There is an insolenco about been succeeded by a man who know how,
It used to be Fritz" last year when it all that makes one gasp.
Yet that insolence springs naturally BOY'S TWEED moderately over the east coast of Chins, and it on to ith The eminent surgem is they spoke of the enemy. Now it is Huzi,
altogether such a one as ourselves, even
or, as I have heard, till his hand falls on the knob of the superlative of Yahoo. In the Napoleonic and unconsciously as an oath out of the theatre-door. After that, in the silence ware we called the Frenchmen too many same spirit that caused the destroyer to anong the ether fumes, no man except names for any one of them to endure; pick up the dog. The reports themselves, and tenfold more the stories not in thỏ his acolytes, and they won't tell, has
but this is the age of standardization. ever seen his face. So with the uncon-
And what about our Lower Deck-reports, are charged with it, but no words sidered carate. Yet, before the war, be I continued.
by any outsider can reproduce just that had more experience of the business and They? Oh, they enrried on a usur. professional tone and touch man. detail of death than any of the people It takes a lot to impress the Lower Deck writing home after the fight points out, who contemned him. His face also, as when they're busy" And he mentioned that the great consolation for not having he stands his bedside-watches that coun-everal little things that confirined this cleaned up the enemy, altogether was that tenance with which he shall justify him. They had a great deal to do, and they anyhow those East Coast devils--L self to his Maker-none have over looked did it strendy, because they had been fellow squadron, if you please, which up upon. Even the ditcher is a priest of trained to carry on under all conditions till Jutland had had most of the fighting. mysteries at the high moment when he without panicking. What they did in the were not there. They missed that lays out in his mind levels and the fall way of running repairs was even more show. We were as cock-ahoop as a girl of the water that be alone can draw off wonderful, if that be possible, than their bad been to a dance that her sister has clearly. But catch any of these men normal routine.
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Chance sent me almost immediately after the Jutland fight a lieutenant of one of the destroyers engaged. Among other matters, I naked him if there was any particular noise.
Well, I haven't been in the trenches, of course," he replied, "but I don't think there could have been much more noise than there was,"
This bears out a report of a destroyer who could not be certain whether an enemy battleship, had blown up or not, saying that in that particular corner it would have been impossible to identify anything less than the explosion of whole magazine.
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It wasn't exactly noise," he reflected "Noise is what you take in from outside, This was inside you. It seemed to lift; you right out of everything."
The Lower Deek nowadays is full of strange fish with unlooked-for accomplish- ments, as in the recorded case of ivo simple seamen, of a destroyer, who, when need was sorest, came to the front as trained experts in first-aid.
MORE ABOUT JOSE.
"And now-what about the actual Hun losses at Jutland!? I ventured.
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"You've seen the list, haven't you?
Yes, but it occurred to me that they might have shade and thought need under-estimated
perfectly plain asbestos fire-curtain descended in front of the already locked door. It was none of his business to clis- pute the drive. If there were any dis crepancies between estimate and results. one might be sure that the enemy knew about them, which was the chief thing that matters.
A
It was, said he, Jose that the light was so bad at the hour of the last round-up, And how did the light affect one?" when our main fleet had come down from I asked, trying to work out a theory that the north and shovelled the Hun round noist and light produced beyond known on his tracks. Per contra, had it been endurance form an unknown aesthetic any other kind of weather the odds were and stimulant, comparable to, but in the Hun would not have ventured so far. finitely more potent than, the soothing As it was, the Hun's ficet bad come out effect of the smoke pall of ancient battles and gone back again, none the better.
Tas lights were rather curious, was-for-all and exercise. We must be thank the answer. "I don't know" that one ful for what we had managed to pick up. noticed searchlights particularly, unless But, talking of picking up, there was they meant business; but when a lot of an instance of almost unparalleled Jose big guns loosed off together, the whole sea which had stuck in his memory. was lit up, and you could see our de-soldier-mu, related to one of the officers stroyers running about like cockroaches in one of our abips that was put down, en a-tin- soup plate,"
had got five days' leave from the trenches. "Then is black the best colour for our which he spent with his relative abuard, destroyers! Some commander, seem to and thus dropped in for the whole per- think we ought tu
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"Blest it. I know," said young Dante, helping to spots and bad lived up a mast 0 m 2 14
Then it all goes out again with a banginto the water and swam about till he 733 7 6
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leave to make himself decent. Most of 'em didn't like it a bit. They bit of it," anid the War Office. "If you went below one time, and wanted to be choose to spend your leave playing with loved. They knew it wasn't ordinary sailormen and wer all over, that's practice.
"yed? concern, return to duty by to-night's boat." (This may be a libel on the W.O., but it sounds very like them.) "And he had to," said the boy, but i expect he spent the next week at Head- quarters telling generals all about the fight."
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What did Arabella do?" I had heard a good deal of Arabella.
Oh, Arabella's quite different. Her jah has always been to look after her master's pyjamas-folded up at the head of the bunk, you know. She found out pretty soon the bridge was no place for a lady so she hopped downstairs and got in. You know how she makes three little jumps to it first, on to the chair; the on the Bap-table; and then up on the pillow Whon the show was over, there she was as usual."
Was she glad to see her master?" Ra-ather. Arabella was the bold, gay lady-dog then 17
Now Arabella is between nine and aleven and a half inches long.
be
"Not a
And, of course, the Admiralty gave you all lots of leave?".
Tais was one of the figures in that dance:
A little British destroyer, her mid- ships rent by a great sheli meant for battle-oruiser; exuding steam from overy pore; able to be nhoád, but not to steer; unable to get out of anybody's war, likely to be rammed by any one of a dezan ships; ber siren whimpering: "bet me through! Make way; her crew. falleri in aft dressed in lifebelts ready for her final plunge, and cheering wildly as it might have been an enthusiastic crowd when the King passey.”
Let us close on that note. We have been compassed about so long and so blinding- ly by wonders and miracles; so over- whelmed by revelations of the spirit of men in the basest and most high, that we have neither time to keep tally of these furious days, nor mind to discern upon which hour of them the world's faro turned:
Not in the thick of the fight,
Not in the press of the odds, Do the heroes come to their height
Or we know the demi-gods,
That stands over till peace,
We can only perceive
Men returned from the seal,
Very grateful for leave,
They grant ne sudden days,
Snatched from their business of war, We are too close to appraise
What manner of men they are.
Or whether they battle and drown
With age-kept victories, And whether their numes go down
Unreckoned is hid from our eyes.
They are too near to be great,
But our children shall understand. When and how our fate.
Was changed, and by whose hand. Our children shall measure their worth.
We are content to be blind; For we know that we walk on a new-
born earth With the saviours of mankind,
A LONG WAR.
**Fighting through" and "holding out" is the text of a symptomatic article Us? Yes, heaps. We had nothing to in the Frankfurter Zeitung, which says ↑ except clean down and oil up and be "Necessity has compelled us to prepare, ready to go to sea again in a few hours" in our hearts and in our armouries, for That little fact was brought out at the a long war. Bitter though it be, the end of almost every destroyer's report. German people has long ago reckoned "Having returned to base at such and with a third winter campaign and with such a time, I took in oil, etc, and the new battles of the coming spring. We know how terribly hard for ported ready for sea at o'clock." When you think of the amount of work a ship us is this last period of the war; but Does the Hun run to pets at all?”
needs even after peace manoeuvres, you we know, too, that we shall hold our own, I shouldn't say 20. He's an unsym-can realize what had to be done on the yea, that we shall win. For us the time pathetic felon-the Hun. But he might heels of an aetion. And, as there is no that passes is not wasted; the privations We never thing like housework for the troubled son! which the blockade imposee upon us áre cherish a dachshund or so. picked up say ships! pets off him, and I'm of a woman,' so's general clean-up is good not borne in vain by the Central Powers; suro we should if there had been.
for sailors. I had this from petty our holding out has its sound meaning, RESCUE OF THE DOG-FIEND.
officer who had also passed through deep for this is not all that our nation accom. That I believed as implicitly as the tale waters. If you've seen your best friend | plishes, it is but a means to an end. of a destroyer attack some months ago, go from alongside you, and your own While the nations of the Entente Brates the object of which was to flush Zeppelins, officer, and your own boat's crew with have no other prospect but the vague hope It succeeded, for the flotilla was attacked him, and things of that kind, a man's by several. Right in the middle of the best comfort is small, variegated jobs, flurry a destroyer asked permission to
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stop and lower dinghy to pick up ship's which he is damned for continuous.
THE SILENT EERVICE.
of being able to drag on the war for another winter and summer (the most critical moment of the campaign this summer cost our adversarica millions of lives without any tangible result), the Germans and their allies are holding out in the splendid assurance that we can and shall attain to higher things, and that during these last few weeks the founda- tions have been laid for the great and last ascent, and this time with Hinden-
dog which had fallen overboard Per-
Presently my friend of the destroyer mission was granted and the dog was duly rescued. Lord knows what the went back to his stark, desolate life, Hun made of it," said my informant, where feelings do not count and the fact He was rumbling round, dropping of his being cold, wet, seasick, sleepless, bombs; and the dinghy was digging out or dog-tired had no bearing whatever on for all she was worth, and the dog-fend his business, which was to turn out at was swimming for Dunkirk. It must any hour in any weather and do or-en- have looked rather mad from above. But dure, decently, according to ritual, what burg as our guide." they saved the dog-fiend, and then every that hour and that weather demanded. body swore he was a German spy in disIt is hard to reach the kernel of Navy guise
And
about this Jutland fight?" I hinted, not for the first time.
"Oh, that was just a fight. There was more of it than any other fight, I suppose, but I expect all modern naval actions must be pretty much about the same.
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IF YOU WORRY, READ THIS Worry never brought any good to any
don't worry body. Still, you say, because I want to; it is because I can't help, it" or, "I worry because I have so much to worry about."
We all have our troubles, and worry,
The of course, makes matters worse. patient generally recognises this fast without being influenced in any way by it.
minds. The unbribable seas and mechan- isms they work on and through bave given them the simplicity of elements and machines, The habit of dealing with swift accident; a life of closest and strict est association with their own custe as well as contact with all kinds of meri all But what does one do how does one feel" I insisted, though I knew it was earth over have added an immense cun- ning to those qualities; and that they are hopeless.
One does one's job. Things are from early youth cut out of all feelings happening all the time. A man may be that may come between them and their right under your nose one minute ends makes them more incomprehensible serving a gun or something, and the next than Jesuits, even to their own people.
The doctor who could meet this nervous minute- he isn't there."
What, then, must they be to the enemy condition and cure it would be the most And one notices that at the time?" Here is a Service, which prowls forth popular man alive. He cannot do it, "Yes. But there's no time to keep on and achieves, at the lowest, something of however, because the form of nervous ex- poticing it. You've got to carry on some a victory. How far-reaching a one only haustion known as neurasthenia, of which how or other, or your show stops. I tell the war's end will reveal. It return; in worry is a characteristic symptom, must you what one does notice though. If one gloomy silence, broken by the occasional be cured by the patient. That is why you goes below for anything, or has to pass hoot of the longshore loafer, after issu- should write today for the book, The through a flat somewhere, and one sees ing a bulletin, which, though it may an-Nerves and their Needs," and read the the old wardroom clock ticking, or lighten the professional mind, does not chapter on neurasthenia. So many people photograph pinned up, or anything of exhilarate the layman. Meantime, tho have read it and written, "This describes that sort, one notices that: Oh, yes, and enemy triumphe, wirelessly, far and my case exactly; I am giving the treat there was another thing the way a ship wide. A few frigid and perfunctory seen ment a trial and being benefited,” that seemed to blow up if you were far off her.
are ing contradictions put forward the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. has had You'd see a glare, then a blaze, and then against his resounding claims; a tad send you a copy free if you address a & number of these books printed, and will, the smoke-nile high, lifting quite
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