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AN EPIC OF THE WAR. THE ZEPPELIN STRAPER.
[BY THE LITE JOSEPH CONRAD] During the war the late Mr. Joseph Courad went on some of the vessels guarding the North Sen. The appended is part of an article he wrote, which for some reason was never published at the time, and which was recently print ed in the Times:].
My companion and I took cover in the wardroom, a good-sized apartment lined with varnished match-boarding. A heivy fable occupied the middle. The Foficer of the watch, a silent, detached figure, sat at a writing desk reading & note, while a young bluejacket, cap in hand waited for the answer. Two B.N.R. offers smoking by the fire grocted us. Another sat at some dis- aree on a hair placed against the wall near a window. He took no notice of our arrival.
But the officer with me murmured with a nod in his direction: This is our Zeppelin-strafer."
I said: "No: "Have you that, too, in your lot!"
"Yes. He'll tell you all,' about it."
SEAMAN AND WRITER
skipper, who had crept to his elbow and was entreating hoarsely not to waste moment, to let the beggar have it now, sir. Let him have it. ** The German meantime held on. Ordering the skipper away he had the fortitude, though his heart was in his mouth alf the time, to hold out till the Zeppelin crossed his wake and exposed the greater part of its side.
"And then," he said, we started to plug it into him as fast as we could load. And every shot was a hit.
He looked at troubled eyes. "It was impossible te me with strangely miss
you know," he added in lowered voice,
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tore of the microscopic strafer below, Whether conscious or unconscious bo- Fritz must have had the surprise of his life. The record shock of Zeppelin bis- tory. Hia dismay was boundless, some thing very like panie up there breamie visible to the eyes below.
them running along.". went on the Iow "I could see there or four of
voice. "I saw them quite plainly. If I had had half a dozen men with rifles on my deck we could have got every single one of them."
with its engines working noisily, made The Zeppelin swung off wide and,
off without more ado, Its own speed or the drift of denser fog blowing over turned it into a mere dark blur swiftly As long as the faintest shadow of it remained visible the fre was kept" up. sued. It was all over. He was gone. Then it ceased. A profound silence en-
I was introduced with a word or twa of comment to "our Zeppelin strafer." There was no halo round his head. He was young, so young that he must have belonged to the third generation of
A SICK ZEPPELIN. those who had gone to sen since my It was, however, possible that he time; one of those who began that, life might return overhead and take his after 1900. A seaman of the 20th cen- revenge.) But before the strafers on tury And yet he was no stranger to deck had the time to exchange glances me. The memories of my 20 wa years of wonder, apprehension, or inquiry, crowded upon me, memories of laces, while they were still, in fact, starting of temperaments, of expressions. And into the upper fog, the shadow reappear- looking at him, all I could say to myrd nearer than before aslant in the self was: How like! We sat down side white space, sliding downwards stern by side near the window. He was in no first, its posa tilted up at a perilous hasto to begin. He belonged to the shy, angle. silent type-and, how like!
"Of course we opened on him instant- y," he went ou And do you know what he did then "
At this point he looked at me again, and after a little gaap went on as if unwillingly. "He dumped all his bombs overboard. The whole lot of them at once
It's an odious thing have to write in descriptive fashion of men with whom "one talked like a friend and had found ncceptance as one of themselves If he sees these lines I hope he will forgive me It's very likely, that my impressions Ret down truthfully arr «itogether untrue. We were but half. The resulting explosion was something an hour together, and when we parted terrife. He felt as if his little craft and he closed the door of that room
were blown clean out of the water and behind him E-felt that he, was asutter.
at the same time bit by a tidal wave ly gone from me as though he bad step and black smoke, the Zeppelin shot up And in the awful commotion, uproar, ped out in the middle of the Pacific.
He began to tak to me with a sort of reluctance, hesitatingly, till I men. tioned to him that had been to sen much longer than hf, if not so recently. He knew I wasome sort of writing man, and was ready to be civil, but after that remark of ming di arti- culation became ensier. Not much though. He looked down on t groand, glancing at me only now, again. and spoke in a low t
expected pauses, The be
thich
I can characterize that narrative is by wing the delivered it to me with the aspect the bearing of a man who
broods over the event in silence.
OUT OF THE FOG.
and vanished for good.
"You must have made him very sick." I said.
1r
"He looked very sick indeed." id the young strafer quietly.
"I wonder what became of him!" the papers some time afterwards.
"Hard to say. There was a report in Damaged Zeppelin coming to the ground in Norway** think.
sometimes
He did not finish the sentence. He had been 18 months of long days and out and io, fair or foul, never seeing la ger nights at his protecting work, anything to reward his strained, hope ful vigilance, and sometimes for days seeing nothing at all. For the North so big that there may be half a dozen Sen is a hig place, as our coasters may ships out looking for you because you are a little late in returning (as it happened to a man), and you will come seen by anybody-which is vexing for in innocently, having sern no one un the anxious searchers.
Eighteen patient, "unfaltering months, minutes-is that much 1 The whole affair and then this ten gloriously crowded probably did not last so long.
He was making his way on a foggy day back to his base after a spell of duty outside. His craft mounted one gun; and without going into paneces sary description I may best give an idea of the size of his command by saying that, when he was reposing, the brch of the gun was within four feet of his head as it lay on his pillow, For reasons that deed not be stated, his vessel did not move then more than about three knots through the water- Rare, like drops of water in a desert, which was smooth. There's seldom much are such opportunities for the watchers wind with thick weather. On that of the lightless whore: And to this one occasion there was a very light breeze, Fortune had not been fickle, but simply enough to help the fog at its usual outrageous. The drop had merely brush pranks of thinning and thickening, opened past his lips so unskilled in speech." ing and batting, lifting in patchre and closing down suddenly-quicker than a wink, sometimes,
He was walking up and down his Fast deck when, turning aft, he saw the fore-end of a Zeppelin emerge into misty view out of an apparently thicker layer of fag. From then on for succeeding minutes he moved no more than a ship's timber. The apparition took him com pletely unawares because he had not heard any noise in the air before Directly, however, he caught sight of! the Zeppelin he heard the noise of the engines very plainly.
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As soon as he regained the power of speech he uttered the words "Action
. Zeppelin
Astern," in a cautious whisper. Au unnecessary pro caution. But he told me that at first the "enormous thing seemed right on top of us. In fact it was, not...any-, thing so near as that. It was coming up astern but a little or one side and, he noticed, steering & course which would cross obliquely his wake and bring the monster very close indeed-within 500 yards perhaps.
For whatever reason, it was dying low, so low that he did not need to throw his head up much to watch its steady progress." And there followed For him such moments of unforgettable anguish, something like the anguish of a man whose eternal salvation would depend on the soundness of his judg ment.
GIGANTIC LUCK.
The problem was how to deal with this gigantic piece of luck. For if he opened fire tod soon the chances were that the Germon would swerve and get away, or, climbing overhead, would descend on him as low as he pleased, and bomb bim out of existence. His gun was a very good weapon of its kind, but it was not an antiaircraft gun and had only a limited amount of elevation, And there was also the possibility that, utterly unconscions of the tiny speck lost in the shimmer of the thin fog-layer below, the "Zeppelin would after its coureo of its own."
What worried and discomposed him
the insistent whispering of bis)
Wis
He had talked to me in all friendliness, for which I am duly grateful; yet be left me with the impression that had he been permitted to taste the full flavour his official report would have remained, of his own choice, his first and last utterance. I fancy, somehow, that rather than talk of luck so immense that there could be no fit words for, it in the world be would have preferred to brood over it in adequate silence.
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