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land Islands a month later. In the meantime several German war ships were at large and one of them in particular, the Emden was creating havoc among the commerce of the Indian Ocean. Early in November this ship was run down and sunk. At all times through out the war the Germans had cruisers and privateers out destroying the commerce not only of their enemies but of neutrals as well. In April, 1915 one of these appeared in Chesepeake bay and was in terned. Others continued the work until recent times. In January, 1915 another naval battle was fought in the North Sea and won by the British. The allied navies helped the troops in their attack at Gallipoli where a number of good allied ships were lost. In 1915, the Germans began their policy of frightfulness on the sea and were sinking merchant ships wherever found. May 7th the world was startled and horrified by the news that the Lusitania had been tor pedoed and sunk without warning with a loss of over 1000 lives of whom over a hundred were Americans. Men, women and even lit tle babies were ruthlessly sacrificed in this catastrophe for the hon or and glory of German arms. This one act did more to place the Germans outside the pale of humanity and civilization than one other act For a year after this outrage, the work of the navy consisted of operations against the submarines. However on May 31st, 1916, the greatest naval battle of the war, the battle of Jutland, occurred resulting in a victory for the British fleet. In October of that year a U-boat appeared off the coast of the United States and sunk six merchant ships off the port of Nantucket, Mass. July, 1916 also saw the arrival at Baltimore of the first merchant submarine, the Deutchland. In 1918, the British and French bottled up Zebrugge and Osland. No other great naval battles were fought. The Ger mans limited their efforts to sinking helpless merchant boats, hospi tal ships or fishing smacks with the U-boats. This unrestricted war fare finally drew the United States into the struggle and with our entry came the depth charge, the convoy system of the collection of a number of ships in one fleet at some designated point in the ocean from whence they would be escorted to their port by the warships. This resulted in the allies sinking more U-boats than the Germans could build. Thefinal act in the drama of the sea warfare was en- 12.