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XMAS HAMPERS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, 1924
THE MERCHANT NAVÝ,
AN EPIC OF THE WAR.
In the second-volume-of-the-oficial part taken by the Merchant Navy, Mr. Archibald Hurd continues his admirable
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from the torpedoing of the up to the eve of the enemy's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1st, 1917. The author brings home to as the fact of the great part played by merchant ships of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron in enforcing the blockade. The courage of the British seamen, suddenly called upon to support the operations of the Royal Navy, cannot be exaggerated: The spirit in which these operations were prosecuted in fair weather and in foul, and in high lati- tudes where cold and fog prevail, con. stitutes the supreme vindication of the character and seamsafike qualities of the Merchant Navy, which was to be rein- forced before the war came te its close by thousands of incidents of splendid' and daring heroism in face of Eopeless odds, and noble self-sacrifice in the com- mon canse," This chapter of Mr. Archi-j bald Hurd's history ought to be read by everyone, for few of us yes appreciate, because we have never knows the facts, how much we owe to the Tenth Cruiser Kudrop.
This history is bring compiled under the auspices of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. As the author indicates, he has based hia narrative on the voluminous records pre- served at the Admiralty and Board of: Trade, so we have in these pages the authentic story of the events at sea. We are told of the heroic conduct of ter chant seamer, sheriaca, and yachtsmer, all of whom had their part in the strug gle; learn how the Merchant Navy traits ported the first million troops; trace the movement for arming defensively the ships which were carrying our food und munitions; real in distressing detail the tragedy of Capt. Fryatt, relateil for the first time in all its illegality; and, finally, are enabled to trace the careers of the three German raiders, the Mare, Srents Here and Huiƒ..... It was well that this history should have been written to re- mind us of what we, as a nation of is landers, owe to the offers and men of the Merchant Navy.
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"Again and again in these splendid re- cords the contrast between the English and German temperaments is. casually and unintentionally, enforced. Take the case of the sinking of the Caucasian, for instance. After a chase of over an hour that vessel became unmanageable on being struck by the seventeenth shell. The crew took to the boats, and the commander of the enemy submarine, came alongside de claring that, owing to his order to stop having been disobeyed, he intended to Just at that sink even the lifebonts. moment Capt. Robiason's dog fell over- board, and the Englishman automatically! jumped into the sun to save it. While has clinging to the rails of the sub- marie the astorished German exclažuoki, You jump overboard to save a dog? Capt. Robinson made no reply, but the German. moved in spite of himself, allow. ed the lifeboats to proceed. His con sideration, however, went no further. for scones, which had become so ordinary, wher, soon afterwards the fuglemoor weat like this tranquil, matter-of-fact' narra- to the rescue of the mer in the lifeboats tive itself. And it is just such narra she shared the fate of the Caucasian.
A SEAMAN'S EXPERIENCE. Arother Sective contrast between the Englisamian and the German is excellent ly illustrated in Capt. Southward's re- port of what happened after the törpe doing of the Clan Maciend, when on the German commander's orders, be came on board the submarize.
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A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE. The captains of the British Mercantila Marine were to Bud the symbol of their service in a single man: ·Capt Fryact to be accepted throughout the The Commander rushed down from enme the conning-tower, shook his fist in my civilised world as the typical figure of face. said: Why did you not stop the British merchant seamen. I replied that I wanted to save my fellow-countrymen were dependent for ship. He then said: Why did you life on their staunchness and seatanlike stop when I fired I replied that my skill, and the trust was gloriously indi- instructions were to escape if possible cated." The treatment of Capt. Charles The Commander said: Never mind Fryatt, in addition to all this, furnishes your instructions; you must obey my yet one more contrast between the two The whole world knows of that orders. I replied that I did not know races. anything about his orders. His next charge of being strongly suspected of remark was:
I can shoot you as a having attempted to cause injury to the franc-tirear.' I said: 'I don't think forces of Germany and the singularly cold-blooded judicial murder that follow- so. He said: 'You are assisting my eremy. I replied; I am your enemy."
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The Commander then said: 'End Kapitan-Leutnant Gasser, who signalled you stopped when I fired three shots to the unarmed Brussels to stop
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wourd in my hand. I replied that capture if he could, and his obligation was the more binding in that the Ad. it was my misfortune." The Englishman was ordered back into miralty had instructed all merchant cap- the boat, and the steacher was then and tairs to thwart submarine attacks by every means in their power. Apart from there sunk by shell fire.
Ruthlessness had become the German this, Capt. Fryatt was quite justified in molto for a long time, and the acts which thinking that Capt. Gansser's signal it bred came to be accepted by the mer were a treacherous ruse to make torpedo- Capt Fryatt- did not chant unvy, of this country with absoluteing casier." eangfroid. The spirit of the British gen hesitate for an instant, and the entry in men remained unbroker. The torpedoing the Bruisce log will go down to of the Persin, described by an American passenger, may be taken as typical: There was no pauie, We went on deck as if we were at boat drill, and I re- ported myself at my lifeboat on the star buard side," Antergineer, Mr. Walter. Ernest. Smith, also a passenger on the Perein, has left a singularly vivid re cord:
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1.10 pin.-Sighted submarine two "points on starboard bow. I altered my course to go under his stern. He then turned round and crossed my bow from starboard to port. When he saw ine starboard my helm he started to sub- merge, and I steered straight for him. At 1.30 his periscope came up under my bows, port side, about. eft from the side, and passed astern. Although a good lookout was kept, I saw no- thing else of him. I was steering by E. by S. course at the time of sighting
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To the very end the Germans strove to insult, & courage which they could not break. Captain Fryatt. was taken to the caserne d'Infanterie, up tho long avenue of shady trees that passes in front of it, with a brass band play. ing at the bend of the firing-party.
him, and brought my ship to a north-They led him through the gateway canterly course when I was over the top of him. The latitude was 31.08deg. N., longitude 30,4ldeg, E.
under the two-storied house which stands on the side of the barrack yard, where the senior oficer present-Col von Bottelar-stood, smoking a cigar, with a sporting dog on a leash beside him, and then tied him to an execution post which had been set up in the filthiest corner of the yard, near & manure-heap. Nothing shook the pri Boner's composure, and he received twelve bullets in his chest without. Aiuching.
Timmediately got hold of a life belt and started to make my way up. on deck. On my way I came across n lady. I had met on the boat who was standing dazed, doing nothing. I asked why she did not get her helt on, ar seeing that she was stupefied, XAVE her mine and went back to my cabin to get my own life-saving jacket she was not amongst those who were That was on March 28th, 1815. and on agved. When I left my cabin, the June 22nd, 1916, Capt. Fryatt, still in com- second time, I noticed that women dad mand of the Brussels, left Rotterdam on children were lying about, some evi
his way to Tilbury. He started late in dently in a dead faint, and others the afternoon, and the same night found moaning and crying out. One woman himself arrounded by German
des I remember particularly, IL French troyers When ordered to stop he stop- woman
who was leaning up against the rail in the corridor outside the ped, and the German boarded the Brussels, but not until the last mail-bag cabins, was quite dazed. Seeing she had been reduced to ashes. The result Mr. Archibald Hurd is to be congrata- was not in a fit state to help herself, of the trial that followed belongs to his lated on his admirable ad. coldly im I pushed her along, and that seemed to tory. The conviction was a travesty of partial presentation of the case for the route her. I practically got her on to justice, conspicuous even among German merchant service, throughout the Great B the deck, where someone else took the atrocities: The details of the execution War. His record speaks for itself, not lifebelt from her, fastened it on her, were in harmony with the sentence: only to the English nations, but to the and pushed her overboard. She was
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