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MYSTERY-Y.C.'s.

ADMIRALTY SECRETS

REVEALED.

The Admiralty has issued thrilling stories of actions be tween British decoy ships and U-boats. and told how the

Mystery V.C.'s" were won. 1 Commander Gordon Campbell, whose VC was announced in April of last year, figures in several of the stories. The case of H.M.S. Farnborough is typical, i On March 22, 1916, this vessel disguised as an Admiralty collier, under the command of Campbell, i observed a submarine awash about five miles distant on the port bow.

When on the port quarter, the submarine fired a shot across the Farnborough's bows, and partly submerged. The Farn- borough thereupon stopped, dis- embarking a "panic party" under the command of Temp. Engineer Sub-Lient. J. S. Smith, R. N. R. The submarine then closed to about 300 yards and fired a shell,. which fell short.

Lisut-Commander

Campbell

immediately hoisted the White Ensign, and opened fire with his concealed armament. The sub-

marina slowly disappeared, and the Farnborough proceeded over the spot and dropped depth charges. The submarine reappear- ed in a nearly perpendicular position: five more rounds were fired into her at nearly pointblank, range, and she sank for the last time.

THE PANIC PARTY,” Not the least thrilling of the → stories is that of HMS. Stock Force, under the command of Lieut. Harold Auten, R.N.R., to! whom the VC. was awarded in September.

The Stock Force was torpedoed by an enemy submarine at 5 p.m. on July 30 last, entirely wrecking the fore part of the ship, including the bridge. A great shower of planks. unexploded shells,

hatches, and other debris followed the explosion.

The ship settled down forward, flooding the foremost magazine and between decks to the depth

of about 3t. The "panic party,"

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DECOYED TO DEATH. The submarine then came to the surface a head of the ship half a mile distant, and remained

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GOOD-BYE, DORA.

A

Daily Chronicle as follows:-

Ormand Butler writes in the

Years hence, when we are discussing the personalities of the war. and Dora comes up for judgment, time will have softened the asperity of outlook and that now forlorn and friendless female "No: a champion. hour, may find

A little altogether a bad sort. uncertain in temper and per-

perhaps. But emptory

what should we have done without her? "will very likely be the post-mortem verdict.

apparently watching the ship for any doubtful movement. The "panic party in the boat accordingly commenced to CON back towards the ship in an endeavour to decoy the submarine

If one were to attempt a con-

within range of the hidden guns. temporary pen portrait of the The submarine followed, coming lady it would not be flattering. slowly down the port side of the of a distinctly forbidding coun- away, Lieut. Auten, however,

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Stock Force, abant 300 yardstenance. Argus eyed; with that the Realm Manual for

withheld his fire until she was kind of nose which proclaims a "abeam, when both of his guns disposition to poke itself into everbody's business, she would could bear.

resemble one of these relentless virago likenesses which Hogarth

Fire was opened at 5.40 pm; the first shot carried away one of the periscopes, the second round hit the conning-tower, blowing it away and throwing the occupant high into the air. The next round struck the submarine on the water-line, tearing her open and blowing out a number of the crew. . The enemy then subsided

loved to paint,

That is not, it need scarcely be whom Dora is→ said, the bureaucratic view, to

A perfect woman, nobly plann-

ed.

To warn, to comfort, and

command.

It was, at any rate, the idea of

several feet into the the water and her sponsors, when she was born her bows rose. She thus present-

a little more than four years ago,

ed a large and immobile target, that she should be a very present into which the Stock Force, pour. Ed shell after shell, until the sub-help in time of trouble. To the marine sank by the stern, leaving British public unaccustomed to betrammelled in their private a quantity of debris on the water.

affairs, she was not a perfect. THE SUPREME TEST.

woman, but a perfect nuisance.

The action of HM.S., Q5 on So far as the prohibitive powers Feb. 17, 1917, may," says the of Dora go, they seemed to bej official record, "be regarded as framed on the essentially feminine the supreme test of navst dis-outlook of the mother who said. cipline.

Nurse, just see what baby is Q5 (Commander Campbell), was doing and tell her she musn't." struck by a torpedo abreast of No.

3 hold. Action stations were sounded and the "panic party abandoned ship,

The enemy caine down the port The engineer side of the ship, and fire was officer reported that the engine withheld until all guns could bear room was flooding, and was or- at point-blank range. The first dered to remain at his post as shot beheaded the captain of the along as possible, which he and his submarine as he was climbing out staff, several of whom were of the conning tower, and the severely wounded, most gallantly submarine finally sank with con- did.

ning tower open and crew pour- The submarine commander

ing out. Was observed од the STET- A wireless signal för assistance board quarter 200 yards had been sent out when (but not distant, watching the proceedings until the fate of the aubmarine through his periscope. He ran was assured, and a destroyer and past the ship on the starboard sloop arrived a couple of hours side so closely that the whole later and took Q5 in tow. She hall was visible beneath the sur-was finally beached in safety the facs, finally emerging about 300 following evening, ongkos yards on the port bow,

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five shillings, but that is merely sa introduction to the more detailed depositions of Dora, which are contained in four other volumes. There is a legend in one of the departments of Whitehall that there was once a man who knew, within a hundred or two, the

number of Orders which had been issued in Dora's name. That may or may not be true, but when you remember that beyond Acts, Regulations, and Orders in Council there are at least a dozen Ministers who

at may

any moment isuse & Ukase, and amend it by another as an after- thought, later in the day, it will

be understood that there are difficulties in the way.

We should be wrong to assume that Dora is wholly bad. If to her share some female errors fall we must not forget that she has a benevlent side to her character. I forbear to repeat what my greengrocer, smarting under the financial stripes of a recent visit to the police court, called her, but cannot forget that to a man in hospital, tortured by cab whistles, Dora appeared in the guise of" a good fairy when she waved the wand of Regulation 12 D and bade them cease.

And NOW we may hopefully look forward to the day when somebody, the Prime Min- ister perhaps, will take pen in hand and write →→→

In pursuance of the power. conferred on me by Regulation 11 of the Defence of the Realm (Con- solidation) Regulations I hereby. order as follows

And there will be proclaimed, in the customary language of circumlocution, the announ Stories are also told of how ment of Dora's demise Lieut. W. E. Sanders. Lieut. B-N)| +257 Stuart, Iient, C. G. Bonner, [S Skipper T. Crisp, PO. Ernest Pitcher, and Beamsn W. Willaze were awarded the V.C.

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