THE JUTLAND BATTLE.
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“Have you news of my boy Juok?"
Not this tide. "Whan d'you think “that bo'lk
come back ?"
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Not with this wind blowing
and this tide.
"Has anyone else had word of
him!"
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Not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing
...and this tide. "Oh, dear, what comfort can I
And ?"
Nove this tide. Nor any tide. Except he didn't shame his kind, Not even with that wind
blowing and that tide. Then hold your head up all the
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As darkness fell, our fleets lay stopped '7” I asked of a youth between the enemy and his boms who had had experienos. parts. Daring the night our “Nothing special. They cheer, heavy ships, keeping well clear of and you chter back. One dowan's possible minefieide, swept down think about it till afterwards. HELPING A LAME DOG south to south and west of You are it may be your Isek in
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There were many other torpedo Rudyard Kipling on the Fight. ing. When morning came, our
main fleet could find no trace of the attacks in all parts of the battle. enemy to the southward, but our that mlity afternoon, including a destroyer Actillas farther north gusial episode of an enemy light had been very busy with enemy cruiser who "looked as if the ships apparently running for the were trying" to torpedo one of Horn Reef Channel. It looks, ar "bittle-oruisers" while the then, if when we lost sight of latver was particularly engaged. the enemy in the smoke worsen A destroyer of curs returning and the dai kaosa, he had changed from a special job which required course and broken for home satern delicsey, was picking her way jour main fisetz. And whether back st thirty knots through that was a round manoeuvre or batches of enemy battle."rainers otherwise, he and the still flows and light cruisers, with the idea of the North Bes alone can tall.
of attaching herself to the nearest But how is a leyman to give herselfuneful. It cocarred to her destroyer fistille and making any coherent account of an affair where a whole country's coastline thetan aka "wan in a most advan- was background to Eattle coverageour position for repelling ing geographics! degrees? The enemy's destroyers andeavouring
to attack, she could not de beter The fire having been dealt with, records give an impression of then to remain on the 'engaged it was found a mat kept the toke- illimitable grey waters, nicked on their uncertain horisons with the bow of our battle-cruiser." So hold dry. My only trouble now she remained and considered being laok-of speed, I looked mudge and blur of ships spark things. There was an enemy round for useful employment and ling with fury against ships hid- den ander the care of the world, batile-cruiser equadron in the raw destoyer in great difficul- offing, a bitch of enemy light ties, so closed her." She proved Because he was the son you bore, One sees these distances madden raises ahead of that squadron, to be our paralytic friend of the And gave to that wind blowingly obscured by walking miats and the weather was thickish and intermittent torpedo to bes, and a ing and that tide. and weak fogs, or wiped nut by deceptive. She sighted the enemy grateful ship she was when her There was
layers of funnel and gun smoke light cruiser, "class uncertain," crippled sister (but still good for much destroyer work in the Battle of Jatland and realises how, at the pace the only a few thousand yards away, a few knots) offered her tow The actual battle area may not ships were going, anything might end decided to attacl her in "under very trying conditions
be stumbled upon in the bats, or shoo and square miles, but the charge out of it when it lifted. order to frustrate her firing with large enemy ships approsch-
torpedoes
СЦЕ battle ing." So the two ut off together, One comprebends, too, how the incidental patrols, from first to
CLIE the Cripple and Paralytio, with heavy Inst, must have covered many times
the far-off glare of a great vessel Rock" (This in afire might be reported as a local authorities should think that abella falling round them, as that ares. Doubtless, the next generation will comb out every veras; tow a silhouette caught, craiser with every gan she bad, twelve kuote, and the weather fire on a near-by enemy, or vice light cruiser wished to buy rab sociable, as a couple of lame ber.) So she fell upon the light bounds. Cripple worked up to detail of it. All we need men for an instant, in a shaft of pale as between two and four thousand grew vile, and the tow parted. bec is there were many squad light let down from the low sky yards, and secured a number of Paralytio, by this time, bad raised -rops of. battleships and cruisers engaged over the face of the North might be fatally difficult to idea hite, just the same as al target |eleam in a boiler or two, and
tify till too late. But add to all Sea, and that they were secam these inevitable confazione and praatios. Whilst thus cocupied. made shift to get along slowly panied in their dread coming mireckoning of time, shape and she sighted out of the mist on her own. Cripple kirpling and goinge by maltitudes of dee distance, charges, at every angle, that had worried her earlier in not make any more headway in squadron of enemy battle-crainers | beside her, till Paralytic could troyers, who attacked the enemy of squadrons through and across the afternoon, Leaving the light that rising sea, and Cripple had both by day and by night from the afternoon of May 31st to the the centres of the fighte; and even considered a reasonable distance the tow parted. So they tied
| other squadrons ; sudden shifts of
craiser she closed to what the to tow her once more. Qace more morning of June las, 1918. Wowwiiter restorations, wheelinge, of the new comers, and let
too close to the gignatio csavas to take in the meeting of pings, and regroupments them have, as she thought, both the picture; our children,stepping across space of colliding universes.
such as acoompany, the passage her torpedoes. She possessed backward through the years may Then, blacket the whole inferno active ab-lieutenant, who, get the true perspective and pro-with the darkson of night at fall though officers of that rank think
kmore,
This tide,
And every tide.
have been more than twenty
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portions.
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Paralytic apra delyinde fectively with a cable round her after bollards and gua (preanmably because of strained forward baik- heads) and hauled her stern first, from an ordinary midshipman of reduced. speeds, doubtful of otherwise, is not very far removed, through heavy eems, si continually
the type one sees in two of rala- | their position, marble to sound A little time after the action tives at the Army sad Navy because of the seas, and much The German Fleet came cat began to beat up between our Store. Ba mat astrida one of the pestered by a wind 'which backed || of its North Sea ports, socating battle cruisers and the enemy's, tubes to make quite sure things without warning, till at last they ships ahead; then deatroyers, eight or ten of our destroyers were in order, and fired when the made land, and turned into craiters, battle-oruisers, and Isat, opened the tall for their branch sights came on. Bat at that very the hospital appointed for the main battle fleet in the rear of the service by breaking up the moment a big shell, hit the dea- brave wounded ships. Every body POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.
It moved north, parallel with attack of enemy light orninsta and troyer on the side and there was speaks well of Cripple. Her name the coast of stolen Schleswig-Efteen destroyers. Of those they a tremendous escape of steam, creeps up in several reports, with Holstein and Jutland. Our Beetsoconated for at least two des Believing-since she had seen such complimente se the men of were already out, the main battle troyers; some think more, and one torpedo leave the tubs the sea now when they see good feet (Admiral Jellicoe) sweeping drove the others back on their before the smash cam that work. She herself speaks well of down from tba sorth, and our battle cruisers. This coattered both bar tubes had been fired, the her Lieutenant who as exscntire battle cruiser flret
(Admiral the 6ght a good deal over the destroyer turned away "at greatly officer "took charge of the fire and Beatty) feeling for the enemy.sea. Three of our destroyers reduced speed" (the shell re- towing arrangements in Our scouts came in contact with held on for the enemy's battle dmoed it), and paused, quite res-creditable manner," and also Tom the enemy
on the afternoon fleet, who came down on them at sonably close, the light cruiser Battys and Thomse Kerr, engine- of May 31st, about 100 miles of ranges which eventually grow whom she had been bammering room artifioer and stoker patly the Jatland coast, steering north-lems than 3,000 yards. Our people so faithfully sill the larger game officer, who were in the atoke west. They satisfied themselves ought to have been lifted off the appeared. Meantime, the sub hold at time of the shall striking, he was in strength, and reported seau bodily, but they managed to lieutenant was exploring what and performed cool and prompt accordingly to our battle-craiser fire a couple of torpedoes apicos damage had been done by the decisiva sotion although baik. fleet, which engaged the enemy' while the range was diminishing big shell. He discovered that Eering from shook and slight battle-cruisers at about half-past They had no illusions, says one only one of the two torpedoes injuries.” three o'clock.
of the three, speaking of her had left the tubes, and "obser- The enemy steered south-second shot, which she loosed string enemy light cruiser beam men who da Bomeris deeds often Have you ever noticed that east to rejoin their own fleet, fairly close range. "This torpedo on and apparently temporarily describle them in Homeric lan which was ocming up from that was fired because it was consider stopped," be fired the providenti guage? The sentence" I looked quarter. We fought him on ed very unlikely that the ship al remainder at her, and it hit her round for useful employment" is parallel course as he ran for more would escape disablement before below the conning tower and well worthy of Ulysses when there than an hour. Then bis battle-another opportunity offered." and truly exploded, as wht was nu evil sound at the ships of fæet oɔme in sight, and Beatty's But still they lived thres witnessed by the sub-lieutenant men who perished and of the fleet went about, and seered destroyers against all a battle himmall, the commander, a lead ships themselves broken at the north-west io order. to orniser fiest's quick ficers, as well ing signalman, and several other same time." retire on our battle-fiset, which as the fire of a batch of enemy ratings. Lack continued to hold. was hurrying down from the destroyers si 600 yards, and they The acting aab-lieutenant further ing, our destroyers enjoyed thres Roughly, very roughly, apaak- north. We returned fighting were thankful for small mercies reported that "we still had three phases of “prompt and decisive very much over the same water The position being favourable," torpedome left, and at the same setion"— the first, & period of so we had used in our slant third torpedo was fired time drew my attention to daylight" ustaoku (from 4 to 6 the Ambulanos Platoon.. south. The enemy up till now from esch, while they yet enemy's line of battleships." p.m.) shoh se the one I have just | Kemal Dates, had lain to the eastward of us, fissied. At 2,500 one destroyer. They rather looked as if detoribed, while the battle was Class I. Monday, December 4, whereby he had the advantage was hit somewhere in the vitala they worn coming down with in-young and the light fairly good Tornday, December 12, Monday, in that thick weather of seeing and awarved bady socor her sent to salt, Be the sub-listan on the afternoon of May 31.3 December 18, Wednesday, Dec our halls clear against the after next antern who "was obliged to sat fired the rest of the torpedoes. The second,⠀
towards dark | embar 27, noom light, while he himself alter course to avoid a collision, which, at least, started off current when the light had lowered Glass II, Wednesday, December worked in the mists. We then thereby failing to fre a fourth jy from the sbali-shaken tubes, and the enemy were more 6, Monday, December 11, Tas- steared a little to the north-went, torpedo,"
"Than that next astern and must have crossed the uneasy, and, I think, in more day, December 19, Friday, Da bearing him off towards the east, observed signal for destroyarn anamy's line. When torpedosa sestered formation. The third, ember 29. till at six o'clock Bratty had head- recall," and went back to report turn up among a squadron they when darkness bad fallen and the Clam III. Fri, Dan, 8., Wed ed the enemy's leading ships and to her fotilla captain-alone. Of upset the steering and distract the destroyers had been strung out Dec. 18, Thurs., Dza,
Thurs our main battle-floot came in her two companions, one Was attention of all conoarned. Then astern with order to help the Dea 28, sight from the north. The enemy badly hit and remained stopped the destroyer judged it time to enemy, home, which they did Class IV. Toss, Deo. 5., Thurs, broke back in loop, first east between the lines. The other take stock of bar injuries, Among all night se opportunity offered. Deo, 14, Fri, Dao. 22, Wed ward, then south, then son'west ** remained stopped, bat was other minoriafacta she could Use cannot the whether the day Deo. 27," an our flest edged him off from float when haat reen." Ships maither meath, stoer, nor signal. or the night was the more dee- the land, and our main battis fit that remain stopped" are liable Mark how virtus is reward
persie. From private advices, sokning up behind them followed to be rammed or sunk by a m
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we had the enescy to westward of perhaps, 60 minutes' work put in
wa, where he made a better mark, before there was any really vicious but the day was closing and the "edge" to the action, and it did weather thickwund, and the enemy not steady the nerves of the enemy wanted to get away. As a quarter battiscrpisars may more than aa- sight the enemy, still had other attack made by - another
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