SCAPA FLOW
LIFFING THE VEIL
After many a long inonth, Bays a writer in the Malay" Muït; the Adimimity has given us permission to speak of Seapa Flow the Grand Fleet Base of more than four years of ware Many of us knew from the outbreak of hostilities where the Grand Fleet lay: others again andy have recognised it from the often times
realistic -very descriptions given from time to time by cautions, newspape correspondents.
Perhaps the most intere feature, about Scapa Flow is its name. Like almost all Oreadian, nomenclature it is of Norse deri-: vation. The original "srae was Skape voe, which translated! means Ship isthmus Inlet, and it was on the sandy shores at the head of the Flose that the Norse: hauled their gallers for-the winter months. Orkney in those days wasa Norvegiau.dependency, and it was in Scapa Flow that! the Norse Fleets assembled, audi oo Scapa Flotteria their rabis! on the coasts of England. Seo- Land and Ireland were based. Thus we see that Scapa Flow
Natal bise in the days)
Norse held the sea European waters. Scapa Flow figures again in Napoledic Wars, not indeed
al base. but as
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strange, sight to see the rusty TOMMY THE SCROUNGER." bows of an old Lamp "towering alore fhe coast road at a place for merchantmen which we Bed" to "eansider" a Convey across the likely one in which to pick up s Atlantic Acnially it was Long-sea trout in servan.
waiting
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hope, an am of the Flow which of the Fleet itself one save cuts the Island of Hoy nearly in linedig a blur of masts and Dad of the most expressive and" two that was used for this pur-suckeright miles away under comprehensive words in Tomung s pose, as Scapa Flow was to ex-the ywering hills of Hoy. posed for sailing shije. I may neither I have the Entente Lesinde yet con also be mentioned that it was one to see the Flen ging piled in an exhaustive form. is From the heiglus above Longiupéfon. But the air was endimally the verb tit senninge" with, jis that Lady Frankho is said tofalive with the reverberations variants. "scronpring."" seroan- have seen the last of her husband'- for placties zin te parolger 12 gen, the semunge. ship Lugupe is rather af desingers cape ceaselessly, "up, are expressions in constant use. shallow sheet of water. bat bay and down the Souls; to the Toscrimage means to find." ban excusively, use as a base farbrizes were plated-willas a gypsy finds a stray chicken: for destroyers auf other fight the smoke of the dritter patrol to and aml forthwith craft during the “war,
|on their inewind beat.
appropriate. But be nut alaried.
tibe
masta.
to
Althongli "The Channel and There is hgbably no geh bis? | gente moralist." "to scragage dope Fleets fromently vished in the wale 130 spate miles isot e te steek? In France. Orkuty it was por until ipi, 1 of lapill-ghed water, deep, but where the British Army isévért think that Seapa Flow was relis-Pac po don be to, alg free of thing belongs to the British Army, covered as a pol Fleet Basetats despite the end to as a member of and I think Lega ris, de gym in span three the Therefore, if you find Anything that it was in 1948 dai a com- entrarees Bol age aing the and nobody els is using it plete moden Fleit under tregon-letter workg
These otherwise it may be nuvise" to Admiral Sir Derkeley tides a
no mean carry it away, you sexage Milne nered Scapa Flas defences, - "None but if you want it, and it is nat
first for the
Since the pls lace landial ships reckoned again you,
waters know hav the Scapa Flox has been se
So far is wronging from steal- The appld of the Aleinly exe completely the ullal nips cón During the men is yous maux lake large. This antile muh ing that, thonga "Tommy" wraid umars were abat, and the amaniding baueris, and un vote for ten deletion of the
garh Cenänduleni. shrer Liebine the low boda of mine pockets Jan who hai by experiene in dedi mens, make virati shelt nor self be mail add that the Navy wore good payes jousible br mene? ships this the Mosaic Las is the elevánth wird. That shir werd frendy hullee in gelique (the line and a pre- under- schemes
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fer cockCashell sub-
If he has cancer bis mugit accommolati i faig Joe mains: and the Roar hever is TranScape Flow that it ingens e a quil and joru bangi for boy, and it fall has takes his them, he goeften the venomga wased on i jajared base this and inter? Lebo left and finds here. Then tro few in which the unnylag feesus, lesk es
from -an-hairs day Khunds, thires, ass by early unakudzi 1911. kurteis have bem suump, va en cooking stek hou van he CHEN SOPA TRAS La ders, supples bad, saul woulsphers arounged dog the Bule Miskai Sili yodekly deeraa, hailiselle my tetikaged the can."belts and Foamery soon Jeurys that it was tin dhe as theval ishment is of a whole at the way he gets wind he I Month tower the Germany USB Fan mich leads wants heja is he who has an eve mix-d let urelitesi kamayib, the West Side ! Il sa Maplew. s. De a Had and has ta qualys of tatesãi. "We dran jours farjun Talam kej viem robits, dratibir consience cabem laying his cendin hy aany, ulogarites warp and puite a reprybie pad-gow it feniging અને skin is The is ma she at Saja Pig by ga ush pranon,
golf setungers, the posts, are den, and she dealt most rubber Spel certainly have this every ovali e meses the
merem nedaj
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able submarine into the How, forell, duds for the me. My old idet djer Bienkius under orders not to return until and gripal win i borit sheep was
in his mid was firi. it grazing a' venițiéry where to be "serungide the last was balleted asthe time that those we passed vagrani during Whitewndes dishonesty: suna C. basis go in and the the Float's muy vigil in deze camouflaging helt" were tuas, Grand Fleet was more than once Flow
De applied do it. He feared for Forged hurriedly to sen; audi destroyers les heljed eur delirious (if the words of a native case believed) Buthe Nary
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e furry safey of persual pre rents in England, "When these meme, what will happen?, Suidi's wife will tell
got quickly to work, Tram after The meriai Red Goss, will him that there is a hole worn in tramp was stuk in the subsidary send a special mission to Siberia the bottom od her gucêpân! entrances during the winter estigue the conditions. That's all right, my dear, he'll Coastal batteries put up and there for the WarCouncils My answer, and by and by he'll walk * the hood-defruves were tesW, Sintrons, g5St. Louis in with a new sancepan unter completed in 1915,
will do the wission.
bix arm-nunged. Safe!" "Nothing, will be safe The scrounger will go his rounds and pincir oue's pyjamas of the clotliek line in washing day.
And Blenkins shook his head solemuly at the thought.
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i was a charged Orknes tha 1 visite in July 1915) Agms
hemouths of all entrances is trupo-sible stretold the hub defences: template: i frequent a fels strung from steam-trifler, serious strikes of last summeraud just ~ to." steams-drifter as actuan wilt realising there the herring fisherman linoys is a snaky selfishness which still his net. At each gate lurked a lifts its hirdes head ang uk," But environment must tell. destroyer, or a cruiser. Outside writes the Bishop of Peterborough week after this Bleukins may the boom, Holm and Hoy Sounds in his diocesan magazie. And have been seen wandering around were thick with sunken ships, was not by any means confined some huts out of which a fear of
leads Whereas the Sound the main entrance to one class,
occupants were moved. one free, Holey Sound fabulous fortunes had been made, did not seem sasions to enter Hade hips to its tredit, a pass by usny employers this overflow into conversation, and mutte
wide enough to take sing wealth had not been shared something about Burrying being left. It was at any adecuate degree by the back. But I noticed that he
had a bundle under his arm
destroy
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