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When I was 3,000 miles away from wat I was told that in England I should see the courage and loyalty of England, that I should discover the pride and the faith and honesty with which she is fighting Bat. I was told that I should never see into the heart of England.

THE YOC-YOCS,

STORY OF THE PASSING OF THE KNUTA

NORTH SEA SCRAPPING.

NOTES FROM A BRITISH NAVAL, BASE

THE EVE OF GREAT EVENTS In the early days of the war, when the War Office was obligingly doling out From one of the most active of our authority to the young men of Great naval bases the correspondent of the Daily Chronicle sends an intereating Britain to assume the magic title of article on the Scrapping in the North second lieutenant, it naturally followed Sea and the activities of the ices, with that the knot" of civilian life intro-some interesting sidelights on life in the

base, duces the Gilbert calt into the army,

is a most nelive naval. writes n subaltern.........AN

Ours (he writes) is base in these momentous hours. From great ports, familiar to the public, numberless men and unfold munitions and equipment passwiftly to destindo tions named in the secret, sailing orders of the captain, the never-ending torrent of men and materials impressing on the watchem the magnitude of our arrange- mente, stirring the imagination with the vastness of the Empire resources, and across the smoke and the carnage of the battlefields of Africa, Asia and Ekope, raising visions of the coming conquests of our warrior cons

around our Rul base we need and we have no visions, for every moment wn are confronted with grim realities, we are trained to perfec

It was quite the thing in those days Then, yesterday, I went to the leave for the fashionable subaltern to turn up train. I walked down i street bordered. on parade with the lightest pair of with shops and filled with orderly traffic breeches and puttees that the most Before the shop windows two endless resourceful tailor could turn out, while a rows of people were passing, some of subaltern, who could not manage to get them carrying their parcels, some of khaki, collar and tie in the shade nearest them with books or manuscript cases to a promise was wholly out of it under their arms. Each one of these Floppy hats were, of course, the height people was fulfilling the important of fashion, while Par 4,099x King'a course of his daily existence would Regulations, with reference to the growth not have known from their faces that of moustaches, was absoultely a wash dang." as far as the subs, were concerned. England was at war,

As regards the classic phrase "Carry out sergeant," it was good enough to stamp the junior sub with the hall mark of efficiency in the eyes of the N.C..8****

I went through a wide gate into the courtyard of the station, where there were flowerssellers with their balas heaped up with narcisi and high jonguits

The

Nowadays things are changed. I passed on into the crowded carourse great machine, discipline, has received Before the booking office a long line of powerful reinforcenients, and the "knut" people were waiting to buy their tickets; subaltern is gradually being overwhelmed vorings were hurrying, their arms heaped by the formation of a unit known as the with rugs and minor huggage. À1 one

YO.C.," or Young Officers Company. side Belgian officer, with his bine caps Every new subaltern joining up now has throw back over his shoulders, "waited to undergo a course with the "Yoo and watched the crowd forming and re-Yocs, as these companies are called. forming "Some of the penjile were langhing and talking, I would not have known that England was at war,

Then I went in through the gate to the platform. There were a great many people on this platform, standing in hitale, groups. In tach group was a man or two men, in klinki. On the left the leave train, with the compartments doors open, was waiting for the signal to start

One-half of this train was set päri fos | the offers, the third-class carriages were reserved for the Tomnojus · Even in sucht grave, inatters as life and death fiery must be class distinctions, which is law fol enough.

At first I thought that this train was like any other train, but when I hail walked the full length of it I knew, that this was not true. In the dining car the tables were not laid for tea; instead they were cleared, and in the centre of each there was an ashtray and a glass stand filled with miniches. Plainly it was a dining-car for oflcers, not for civilian pengers, And in the luggage van there were neither trunks nor baga-only the brown canvas kits, neatly one upon the other.

Certamly the governmental machinery was working perfectly; all of the acces sories of civilisation were co-operating to send this trainload of men expeditiously, sately, to tacir mysterious destinatio, somewhere, along those black borders

where there are death and plague

1st and plague and

They have a keen sense of humour in the Adjutant - General's Department at the War Office, and this leads them to appoint supervising officers who are especially adapted to the task of tackling the pronounced knute" of the new army, Carry on, sergeant," is a dead letter. The new sub. has to have the vocabulary of an experienced N.CO. and the brain of a general before he is passed as fit for service.

THINGS HAPPENED.

The first day we paraded at headquar is nothing was said about the various shades of breeches, collars, and ties, and the floppiness of our cape called forth no remark.

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for the fray we are stripped and ly ready, we are inside the ring all the time; indeed, we are in the very heart throb of things. Hospital ships come in bere often, and splendidly equipped ambulance trains carry the sick and injured Jack Tars away to distant naval hospitals, for there are many mis haps in the personnel of the grand fleet.

GERMAN NAVAL PRISONERS- But there are others who are brought asliore be. Some buttous were passed Rather mund mounted as brooches nicer than our buttons," says one. The rope border, is better marked, and there is a cord through the face. Who gave it you!?" I got one of the fellows a decent hot bath," is the reply needed it, poor devil-and he begged me to take something, and, no to offend him, I did." Big fellows, clean built and fit physically if scant of raiment and hare-footed, these men are not unhappy when they get ashore, and they do not alt show gratitude when rescued.

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One officer was pulled out of the water, and when assisted to the deck of the British patrol his frst action was to Next morning, however,spi full in the face of one of his resenters.

The sailor did the most natural thing things happened. An extremely mart staff officer took us for a special parade he felled him with a blow between the two Gernian officers werd and started" us right and left. The eyes. primrose shirts and collars were to be in a cabin when the British Heutenant replaced by the regulation khaki; the stooped to get something. Quick as wonderfully comfortable cap was to be thought one of the rescued Huns nearly reinforced with a spring while to pub brained him with a bolt The British the tin hat on matters, the cultiva officer acted as a British gentleman. tion of a moustache was insisted on under various pains and penalties

The net results of a few days' neglect to shave the apper lip was the appear ance of a Charlie Chaplin toothbrush sort of growth, which passed musler at the informal moustache inspection in the mess. The Sam Browne was replaced by the ordinary Tommy's belt, while an obliging quartermaster equipped us each with rifle and a beyeniled as each

They can tell tales, too, of what they have been doing, these naval prisoners. One graphically described how all on board thought they were getting along very nicely on their mission, everything was going swimmingly, when a shell crashed in on them seemingly from no where. The distance one can penetrale these

March days and nights are not so as in normal weather, but un

destruction Set we had a few hours" right turn by thought of the length of this guns of the

Not that there was any about these unitera on the plaform, where the people were standing in little groups. There was talk only about the weather and the restaurants and the clubs, what with these new laws about wines and

numbers, fill at the end of the day we had reached the wonderful stage of being able to form fours, judging our own lime.".

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lions, and there is not much room for are convinced they will again be out There has been more than one conceit after a month's work with the soon. As for the Fonunies, they looked exYO.C.' It is all knocked out of us scrap The Marne evaded the blockade * out and in," and navil men are the traordinarily unconcerned, sitting by experienced non-coms, under the eyes their unlighted third-class carriages of the townspeople, who watch our first to acknowledge the skill and daring However, they were not talking much contortions on the local green with in- of the seamanship. The dash on the and they were not smiling. It happened tense delight. The local navvies have the Dogger Bank when they sank the mine that some of them, and they were the time of their lives when they see as sweeper Araber was not their only dash youngest of them all, had been out march off with a pick in one hand and out, and we have got in some blows her ****** before,

Rhovel in the other, preparatory to fore they found refuge behind the Frisian

One of them had lighted his pipe- and

was standing in the doorway of his com gallow gigantic trench for affixing littoral. Our fleet now is never long at

for bayonet practice. And when its moorings. It has become restless partment; he seemed to be waiting for the CO. inspects us-well, heaven me the narrow, channels to the Ense, and behind the multiple defences which guard somebody. He would not sit down, as the man who makes the slightest blunder. is was urged to do. He stood in the One unhappy sub. scratched his nose during the last four weeks the battle doorway, smoking hard and looking at

one day while standing at attention, squadron has often studded to sea, the crowd.

and the commandant's remarks caused the sun to go behind a cloud.

child

TAKING NO RISKS.

There has been

*THE DAY" DAWNING. Out there" the fleet cruises in battle formation, and the discontent engender- ed by the long waiting in sheltered By the time we have finished this waters has vanished like the rising miste course we shall be able to stand of a spring morning.

on Dover Pier and make ourselves heard in something doing, we expect more--lots Boulogne. We shall be able to tell the more the officers are buoyant, the rat Christian name of every bomb used in ings are satisfied and contented, for the the service, and the man who has the would never come out, but hold their pluck to wear anything but strictly feet as ransom in the peace conditions, gulation dress will deserve the Victoria have been dispelled, and hopes have Cross. The powers that be are not taking "

fears that had erept in that the Germans.

And it was an extraordinary crowd there on the platform. Within a few ainutes it had taken on new propor tions; there was more movement; there were more people. And somehow the whole spirit of it had changed the things which had been kept so well below the surface were beginning to show in the faces of those who were pressing up closer around the doors of the carriages I saw them in one place moving back to let two Tommies and a girl who was with them pass by. The girl was crying any risks with regard to the new officers suddenly blossomed and bloomed that the The tears rolled down her cheeks and being shack as regards discipline In The rapidity with which the fleet departs Germans are preparing for “The Day...”. made little marks on the blue cloth of the ranks of the 1.0.0., .001 of a speck her cost. I do not think that she knew of dirt in the barrel of a rifle, or being is at all times amazing. One afternoon: I that she was crying. She looked like a thirty seconds late for a parade, is good left, the base for a village some six miles down the coast My road lay inland, bilfore another compartment there was enough for an invitation to the com

out of sight of the sea, and the drive compartment there was mandant's midday "at home" and a a woman holding a little girl in her consequent dispensation of some far from cupied an hour. The fiect, as I left, arms. I saw her give the child over to flattering remarks by that officer, the coast again I was only in time to Jazily lay at anchor, but when I reached an officer, and saw the little girl put both

When we are finally passed to our sew the last of the last cruisers going by arms very tightly around his meck. He was telling her that he was coming back battalions it will not be necessary to use with the attendant torpedo fotilla

the magic formula, ""Carry on, sergeant." | fearing through the green combera very anon. There were, all along that Probably some of the older N.C.O.'s may in their wake.

I think that the coming grey platform, men who were explaining that they were. coming home very soon And I think that they believed this think that this must have been part of their courage. But the women with them were afraid. The fear was in their faces, in the gestures that they made- those amazing purposelees gestures that heaped up in the commodious racks over they made when they were talking head. Then past the third class, where Women of all castes yet there was the Tommies were standing at the win- mysterious likeness in all that they said dows and calling out unintelligible

be carried off when they hear the refined That had happened in our hour's time. vocabulary of some of the Yo-Yos when By then many of the first-line ships were something goes wrong. We have not had lost to view in the light grey March mist. all those weeks training for nothing. The command of the North Ses has never passed out of our hands a second, and the steam has to be let off somewhere.

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And the woman who sold them to me to consider the possibilities of Germany.—make a safe retreat. The Germans." promised to be that wa-a

Then the time came for the train- to had tearstains on the fringed corner of From Borkam, the most southerly of may wish to fight off the dangerous East- po. I went down the platform past the her shawl. So I knew that what they had the Frisian Islands held by Germany, to ern Frisian littoral, but the British first-class compartments where the officers told me when I was 3,000 miles away the Elbe and the western entrance of Navy pan ultimately select the waters were sitting, with their excess equipment from war was not true. For has seen the Kiel Canal is a little over 70 miles, whereon to fight the battle with this pre-

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