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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917.
No. 2
Mine Sweeping With
the M. L's
(Motor Launches)
iy
A SEA SLUG,
British Service Name For Crews
of Submarine Chasers.
Copyright. 1917, by the Bell Syn
dicate, Inc.
PROLOGUE.
The author of this series of four arti
cles is a young American, who has spent
most of his time since the war started
with the British patrol fleet, talcing an
important part in helping to organize
that branch of the service known as
the Sea Slugs.
Be has accumulated a remarkable
collection of anecdotes incident to this
eaciting branch of the service, and
many of these were personal adven
tures in which he took part and which
make one of the stirring narratives to
come out of the war. He recently re
turned to the United States to assist
Ike American navy in organizing the
tame branch of the service and should
to of great value because of his experi
ence abroad. So far as known, he is the
9Hly American to serve with the British
patrol prior to the advent of the United
Mates destroyer flotilla in British wa
ters. Of course some of his experiences,
of military value to the enemy, cannot
te related. At the request of the service
.publication of his name is withheld.
HORTON, the man who tor
pedoed the German battle cruis
er Moltke, was one of tlio most
modest men I have ever met. I palled
around for a couple of nights with
Horton and another Sea Slug who
hud
been only a short time oat of th
Hasda hospital, where he had recov
ered from wounds he received at Galli
polL Hortcn, besides being the hei\
of the Moltke incident when in com
mand of an E boat, had been the Grsi
man through the Dardanelles in his
flimsy M. L., as the British call the
submarine chasers, he being in tiia,
service before taking over a subline
rine.
M. L. stand for motor launch. The
little craft are called a great man
other things at times, both by tlie men
In them when they don't run jus
right and by submarine commanders.
German and British.
We were all at Portsmouth, whicli
is one of tli? principal M. L. baseo.
llortou, his friend and myself had been
out on a duty tour and on the way
back stopped at The Knut for a couple
of drinks, then at Monk's for o.vstors
and finally landed at Tot's for dinner,
which is about the program followed
by the Sea Slugs when they can ge:
ashore.
"They had the M. L.'s sweeping
mines down at Gallipoli," said llortou
kx a very matter of faet way. "Lots
at people think all we Slugs have to
do is to cruise around and keep from
drowning, but I want to tell you that
etiasing submarines is the easiest and
safest thing expected of us.
"Tugboats alid trawlers and mine
sweepers weren't much good in the
Dardanelles, because they furnished
too big a target. Besides, everything
that could float was getting shot to
(rieces, and before they dared send our
strips in it was absolutely necessary
to sweep the mine fields.
"We used to hook thousand foot ca
bles between two M. L.'s and cruise
down through the fields as fast as we
could go. The cables were supposed
to ifoul the mines, tip them over and
explode them. They did it. Also the
M. L.'s themselves tipped over sev
eral mines and exploded them, and
after that there wasn't anything to
hook that end of the cable to.
Work Under Point Blank Fire.
"The Turkish batteries on the cliffs
were so close that as we drove down
through the mine fields we were at
point blank range. The ammunition
wasn't so very good, and it didn't al
ways explode on contact, but if evet
one of the heavy shells smashed
through a chaser there wasn't much
of anything left but the hole it made
en the way through—like a doughnu
after you eat it.
"Of course the Turk guns firing into
tlie fields detonated a lot of their own
mines, but that didn't add to our com
fort any, for many of them were right
under some of the M. L-'s.
"One day we were sweeping in near
stiore. The sun was so hot that pitch
Just seemed to sweat out and run
down the decks. The glare off the
water was almost blinding, and it
really didn't seem as If it could be
much better in the other place to
which we might go if one of those
shells hit us. The Turkish batteries
were hammering away at us. but the
terrific heat was so uncomfortable that
nobody minded the shells much. All
et a sudden something went by my
stomach so close I thought it bad cut
Me in two. Just beyond my boat a
stTell splashed into the water.
"One of the smaller projectiles had
grazed and seared me. I caved In su
tfeat I couldn't walk straight or erect
for several days—and that Is literally
true.' ify stomach felt all the time as
some one was drawing a red hot
lalfe across it"
*1 get it worse than that," said the
had bMft ln Ike fcos
.V" a,-*. v
ittal. abruptly. "My boat tramped a
mine. I don't know how It is to get
'hot, but when that thing blew up
Sight alongside of us it felt to me as
though It was my own body exploding.
It seemed like a sudden and terrific
pressure from the inside of me that
was going to burst me like a toy bal
loon.
"We finally got back to the tender
under our own power. We bad to
shore up the bows a little, but we
managed to make it. Mines do freak
ish things, and I don't believe there is
a man living who can give any logical
reason why we weren't blown into
atoms."
"Iiain luck, I guess," observed Hor
ton placidly. "It's funny that a mine
powerlul enough to sink an ocean liner
or a battleship will sometimes explode
and fail to destroy a motor launch or
a submarhie that Is almost alongside
it. A lot of people think submarines
are very easily put out of business.
We Sea Slugs know it's different, espe
cially the U boats. 1 saw one of our
own down at Gallipoli which had hit a
mine and came in with her bow patch
ed up under her own power, just as
you did in your chaser.
Sixteen Dead In Launch.
"I never had the bad luck to bump
a mine myself, but I've had my share
of being shot up. I had one end of a
cable in a mine sweeping stunt at the
Dardanelles one night when the Turk
ish batteries got the range. The fire
they poured into us is almost unbe
lievable. 1 don't see how a stick lived
through it We were practically under
water all the time, the shells were fall
ing so close and spraying us so stead
ily.
"Every once in awhile one came on
board, but they were not exploding
right—that is, not right from the Turk
ish point of view. We were perfectly
satisfied to have them fail to go off.
"The other chap, though, the fellow
who had the far end of my cable, was
getting it pretty badly. He was in
terrible shape, and after a particularly
vii ions burst of fire his engines stop
ped and he began to drift. I ran over
to him. We couldn't sweep, with only
one end of the cable in motion.
"Of the eighteen men in the other
M. L. I found two alive, Th-1/ weren't
(In
-.ill alive,
-tl. We
In :u li and
ai lit was
conscious, but
The sixteen o*i.
took lhes two
sot bai-k to I lie 1
hell."
1 have i :!e- si- r.c-s me In
these two men e- i"' t'e-:r words
as 1 can how a
phase of the s: bi:v.. li.'-ers' work
whi'Mi is S-: 1 it of. As Hor
ton said. !.:• p* shin'. the M. L.'s
do notliin i,t i 'oi«nd in com
parative sa.'elv l-c.l.Uirv for,submarines
This is oniy tie of tl:cir duties.
Most of tlie Sea Sings have been
taught to operate machine guns, and as
a result they were frequently used for'
landing parlies at Gallipoli, running in
under the Turkish guns and trying to
hang on. by their finger nails almost,
to the cliffs. Some of the Sea Slugs
were on shore for a long time and
served in the trenches. One of them
told me a bad feature of the fighting
there was trying to keep clean. There
wasn't water enough to drink, to say
nothing about washing, and the only
way they could clean their shirts was
to lay them on the ant hills. Even at
that if they left them there too long
the shirts themselves would disappear.
Another job the M. L.'s had down
there was boarding all the fishing
smacks and other apparently noncom
batant vessels and searching them for
ammunition and mines. I talked to
one man named D., a brother of the
officer I told about in my first article
who rammed one of his own subma
rines, mistaking her for a German,
who had a fight with two Turk aero
planes while he was visiting a number
of such vessels.
Fought Planes With Rifles.
"We are just running over to a fish
ing smack to search her," said D.,
"when I hear the throbbing of an aero
Bang!
Goes
On® Not Thirty Feet
Off
My Star board Bow.
plane engine. A few seconds later the
roar of another engine cuts in, and
presently I locate them with my
glasses. It never occurs to me that
they are after such small fry as my lit
tle M. Ti.
"Round and round they circle Just
over or.: eads, getting lower and low
er all the tme, until at last they start
dropping Lo !»s.
"Bang! go.- one not thirty feet off
my starboard
o\v,
and we are sprayed
with the foam she throws up. But
tbe target is too small, and the planes
•re traveling so fast they can't get us
with bombf. so the# veer off and come
Skimming back very low In a stralg.
line dead for us. They are so close to
our heads that I feel like ducking, Just
as one does going under a doorway
that is actually high enough to walk
through upright, but which looks too
low.
"Suddenly they begin to spray us
with machine gun fire. Two of my
men are hit, and the decks are flying
Into splinters. All 1 have on board i
a couple of 30-00 rifies, and I begin
firing with one, while my first ofli c,
uses the other. The three poundci
can't be elevated enough to use it
ID-
an air gun.
"We can shoot rapidly, but nothing
like the lire of that cursed spew o
lead spraying from those machine
guns.
"Once they drive straight over us
and now they are coming back. If we
don't stop them this time we are r°ue
I squint along the sights of my riOe
I take a deep breath. I let part of l!
out and hold the rest, so that my shoul
der will not be moving as I squeeze
the trigger.
"I am sighting right for the pilot's
chest. I tire. He veers off like a
wounded bird. His plane wabbles. It
looks as if It was going to fall, but he
gets it straightened out and flies away.
Both of us begin to fire at the other
machine. It rises. The pilot does not
dare to fly straight into the rifle fire.
From aloft he contents himself with
dropping more bombs, but he must be
within range of our rifles, for presently
he flies away and does not bother us
any more.
"If he had been a German air man
the end of the story might have been
different."
Sea Slugs Are Fighters.
The crews which officer and man
the submarine chasers are not trained
navy men. They don't know overmuch
of the king's regulations, and the
discipline they maintain is most cer
tainly not that to which one Is accus
tomed on board ship.
But—and I want to emphasize this
strongly—they are scrappers. They
fight in their own way. They may
not know how do it according to
the hook, brt they are among the gum
est men a 11 vat. .Many of them are
wealthy and formerly owned and op
erated their own boats. They are a
hard lightin hard riding crow, and
the devil himself caa't scare them.
Before they are assigned to boats
the men are given about a ton day
course in navh.ui' ii, f,,r they inv.sl
sometime*. n.i-1 nit of sight of
It:-hI
and at night. Many amu: ing and some
times alino-t tia.ic incidents arise
from their inexperience.
I was out
oin-e ia an M.
L. command
ed by a subaltern named C. All he
knew about na\ i. utio i had been taught
him in ten da.-.s. He got lost,
ashamed to say s and admit that he
didn't know how to et his location.
He figured for two days trying to find
out where lie was. Ile'd get his sun
observations, and by the time he had
the readings calculated he'd be so far
away that he had to do it all over
again.
He figured for two days, and all the
time ho was getting shorter in provi
sions and fuel. For the last half day
ho followed a destroyer, thinking she
was running into port. He wouldn't
signal her and ask for instructions or
for his location, so he just trailed along
after her as though he knew where he
was going. He was too proud to ask
the road home.
The sun was under clouds, but it
came out Just before sunset, and he
discovered that he had been running
right away from England. We got
back off Portsmouth at night. But our
signal box had been lost overside, and
we couldn't reply to the signal at the
entrance to the harbor, which came
within inches of costing us our lives,
as our own batteries fired a couple of
4.7's at us, and we had to run out and
cruise around the rest of the night to
save our skins. However, we hung
in sight of the harbor so as not to
get lost again.
This same chap, though he was short
n the science of navigation, was long
on fight. When cruising at night the
M. L.'s, of course, show no lights, and
it is very hard to maintain an absolute
ly even speed and keep just the prop
er distance from the other craft
Steam engines can be controlled right
down to the Inch, but tbe gas engines
which drive the M. L.'s are not so read
ily regulated. A single cotch increase
or decrease on the throttle may make
a difference of a whole knot in speed.
Well, C. lost track of the other chas
ers in his squadron one night, and he
didn't dare signal to them. They were
out searching for submarines, and to
show lights would only give the whole
thing away. He couldn't take a chance
on sending up a rocket or tooting his
whistle, for secrecy is everything. So
be just laid a course the way he
thought he ought to steer and kept It
up hell bent all night.
Just after daylight be discovered that
he was off the Belgian coast, having
crossed the channel. As the early
morning mist lifted he sighted a big
vessel astern flying tho German flag.
She didn't look like a regular war
ship—more like a converted yacht—but
she mounted one gun forward, and C.
could see others aft
He had a regulation three Inch piece
himself.
"Well, boys," be said to bis crew,
"we may be rotten navigators, but we
don't need to know navigation to give
that tub a fight. What do you say?"
There was only about one chance in
u hundred that any of them would
come out of the scrap alive, and C.
didn't like to order his men into it.
The M. L. was so fast she could have
run, but the crew was game, so C.
put about and began to loop around
in order to cross her bows, thinking to
cot loose a few raking shots into the
•raft
The gm was loaded aad ready te
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fro, and C. was only waiting for what
he thought was tbe best position before
giving tbe order to shoot
"We ought to fly our flag if we're go
ing into battle," suggested some one in
the crew.
"By Jove, you're right," C. agreed,
and in a jiffy the British ensign was
run up at the M. L.'s stern.
Like a shot the German flag at the
stern of the war vessel came down,
and the Union Jack took Its place.
Simultaneously from the masthead the
stranger broke out a private British
navy signal, and C. replied.
He had come within an ace of firing
into one of his own vessels which had
been flying the German flag in order to
decoy any German craft that might
He Sighted a Big Vessel Astern Flying
the German Flag.
sight her. It shows, though, tliat the
Sea Slugs are ready to go Into action
any time and that they don't have to
have the odds in their favor either.
A Matter of Luck.
As I said before, the catching of a
submarine and its destruction is great
ly a matter of luck. Sometimes the
M. L.'s cruise around for days without
seeing one, and then perhaps a U boat
will pop to the surface within a couple
of hundred yards. The most impor
tant adjunct to luck is an all see're:
eye. One never knows v. !u".v the pe -i
scope is I. .- lo Sti' K out above tae
suiface, and you nn lie ready at any
second to make it out at any point of
the compass.
Just how many submarines were
"got" while I \v s in I'.:gland uni
not at libeity to iy, but I can go on
record as Mating that they are n»!
easy to get. a'id the fr.',:! os are few
er than generady supposed. A vast
fcnumber
of nobs are necessary to com
bat them with any degree of success.
Besides beinu invisible almost at will,
the submarines are manned by men of
nerve.
The idea prevalent among some peo
pie that submarine crews are more or
loss only sneaks, who strike In the
dark or when there Is no danger for
themselves, should be dispelled. The
submarines are operated by men who
fear death not at all and who some
times take staggering chances. If the
British develop one trick that bags a
single submarine they consider it a
success. News of English ruses
spreads rapidly in the under water gos
sip.
U boats have run in a few scant
miles from shore and sunk all sorts of
craft, and they have even tackled de
stroyers. The British had some very
sad experiences in sending destroyers
on rescue work, after which they used
the M. L.'s for this purpose. These
make smaller torpedo targets. The
Germans are supposed not to risk U
boats unduly but, believe me, they do.
1 talked with tbe chief engineer and
one of the crew of a British sugar ship
from.the Wor^t Indies who had been
rescued after being torpedoed.
"We were Just making Havre," said
the engineer, "and we were mighty
glad to get in. The day was remarka
bly clear, and the water was oily
smooth. We were so close to land we
didn't think there was a chance of
anything attacking us when just at 1
o'clock in the afternoon a submarine
appeared off our port bow and signaled
us to stop.
"We were armed with a 4.7 gun on
our stern and had navy gunners on
board, so instead of obeying we turned
sharply to starboard to present as
small a target as possible for a torpedo
and opened fire.
"The first two shots fell short, and
the third went over the U boat. The
way some people talk you would have
expected the submarine to rim away.
She didn't do anything of the kind.
She opened up ou us with a gun that
must have been at least a three inch
piece, and the second shot hit one of
our gun mounts.
"One man disappeared—actually dis
appeared. Either he was knocked into
the sea and sank, or he must have
been literally blown to pieces. Anoth
er poor fellow was killed—just about
torn in two—and two other men were
jut out cold. The captain had to stop
then, because there was nothing left
to fight with.
"We were so near port that the firing
must have been heard, and it was al
most certain something would come
out to investigate, but the U boat went
about finishing the job very method
ically.
"The German commander ordered us
Into our boats. While we were lower
ing away he signaled the captain and
the chief engineer, myself, to come
alongside the U boat The first thing
he did was to have our wounded
brought aboard, and his surgeon at
tended te them. Tbea be mi e«r
i
A
V. .% iijv»
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Q&- 'Xif
boat to send men over and place bombs
In the ship to blow her up.
"As the day was drawing to a close,
it was becoming colder, and. seeing
that the men had not brought coat«
wiili them, l?i? German commander
irivo us all sweaters and towed
Si'i. mi a s*
(Lord, lw
P.ivd in a ,:i
IIB
to­
ward shore for half an hour or so.
Three desti yers passed out. but 1 hey
were so far away that the U boat
pimply submerged until she was awash,
and they never saw a thing. It was
almost sunset when she finally disap
peared after maneuvering around as
though playing like a porpoise at sun
set almost within range of shore bat
teries."
The story of this aimed merchant
man shows that simply placing guns
on steamships is not going to protect
them against submarines. There has
got to be a sort of craft to fight them
on something like equal terms, and the
swift, seaworthy, low lying M. L.'s
seem to be the ones to do it. But
great numbers of them are needed,
and great numbers of trained men are
needed to operate them.
Song of the Sea Sings.
The Sea Slugs in England sing a
song which pretty well covers every
thing in the line of their life and duty.
Some of the verses were written by
one man, some by another. Tbe one
referring to I7ncle Sam is my own
and will be understood when I say
that the first M. I*'s were built In
America and that the British took
some time to learn Just how to use
them:
Sing me a sons ot a frail M. L.
(Lord, have nicrey upon us!)
Rolling about on an oily swell
(I^ord, havo nicrey upon us!)
Out on a highly explosive spree,
Tetrol, lyddite and T. N. T.,
Looking for U boat 3 3 3.
(O Lordr have mercy upon ua!)
Sing me a song of a bold young 'Hoot"
(Lord, have mcrcy upon
UH!),
Sntilful mariner and nut to boot.
(Lord, have merry up n ua!)
So ship the calue arid heave tlie lead,
Hard a-starboard and lull ahead.
The detonators aro in my bed.
(Lord, have mercy upon u.!)
Sin me a song of a smart young "nub"
(Lord, have mercy upon us!),
Ail Insubordinate, half trained cub.
(Lord, have nivi'cy up.HI US!)
Of ibe U'lif's iv..,illations I l.aow not one
I have I' ll undone what I should have
::c
Cut, oil. lo.v auis, when 1 fire that tfun!
(Lord, ti i:.. ivy upon us!)
,r '. M. B.
y W|.o.i
us!),
.«1 j.out :v
•y upon u. !),
Lord, I:.
a
T.::o a w: I. a t::o mo. or ade,
JyasA U .aid rrv, .-ore, d'.smayed,
Bui a h— of a nut on the "yrand pa
raUv"
(Lord, have mercy upon us!)
Sin-,' me a vai I' I'm!': H.im
(i. -,i I, ve i, vy op ai us!)
Bu'.It 11 v.• i I ml don't care a d—n
(L a-.i, 1 upon us!)
Nob ,d 1 s ii:tt tiiey built them for.
Kvir oil- that they'll buiid no
mor\
But fi'i- it ai" the horrors of "bloud
wa"."
(Lord, l. i\ e mercy upon us!)
Sin'? me :i s i!' of a North sea base
(O Lord, li t\e mercy upan its!),
A dirty, for^ott«-n, one horse place.
(Lord, have mercy upon us!)
When I ho wind blows west, how brave
we are!
When the wind blows east, it's different,
far.
You'll find us safe In the "harbor bar."
(Lord, have mercy upon us!)
As one may gather from the song,
many of the Sea Slugs were formerly
chauffeurs, and, although tbe M. L.'s
The Qerman Commander Ordered Us
Into Our Boats.
use gasoline for fuel, there is some
difference between navigating one of
them and an automobile.
Sitting Over a Volcano.
The 'V''tonators under the bed" is
Jteral. Yhere isn't overmuch room on
an M. L., and about the only place to
keep the detonators Is under tbe bunks.
These little craft carry sufficient ex
plosives to blow up several first class
warships, and If you want to know
how it feels to sit over a volcano with
the lid about to be lown off you want
to ride in one of them, especially when
somebody begins potting at you with
shells that may blow up every ounce
of ammunition you've got on board any
minute.
The third article of this series will
ippear soon. It Is entitled
No.
3.—A Motor Launch Raid on the
Belgian Coast.
In which the little submarine chasers
crossed the mine fields by night, fired on
th® German gunboats and land batteries
and escaped across the mine fields once
more. How the British monitors, which
are named after American generals, bom
barded the German coast until the Ger
mans devised a method of locating them
even though th* tog woa wo thick they
eoeUI net
see theca.
"But tbe othei day we dropped down
the coast for a little party, when all
of a sudden, after our first shot, a
shell plumped into the water Just
1M*-
yond us. We let go another, and the
second German shell fell just a little
short. Both were in line
"We thought il was luck, so we mor
ed to u new po. ilion. The same thing
happened, only this time one shell
came on board and did some dnmag*
and hurt some of our crew. Of .course
we thought the lluns must have some
planes up giving tbe butteries our
range, but we couldn't spot one any
where. This sort of thing kept up all
morning until it became positively un
canny. Tho day
WUH
fact, we know now that he was. IIow
we confirmed our original opinion 1
cannot tell.
"Kvery one familiar with the princi
ples of artillery fire knows that a sheH
does not travel in a htralv'it line, ft
travels in a curve caMod the trajectory.
Elevate a gun of a giveu caliber to a
certain nn ,le and lire it and tbe tra
jectory will always be practically the
"W.. '5-"'
After Our First Ghot a Shell Plumped
Into tlie Water Just Beyond Us.
.same. Tin- carve varies constantly,
liee.lining sleeper as the velocity Of
the siteii do io.i-os and it begins to
be ali'eeied more and more by gravity.
Tlie T'atliematica of It.
"Now, what, tlie Germans had done
was this. They creeled a series of
gauze s.Teens at least three—betweca
us and a bait'-ry which we were ac
customed to siteii. To hit the target
our shells must pass through these
screens. Kicetrieal timing devices indi
cated the length of time the projectile
required to travel between the sereens,
and of course the distance was ulready
known.
"This gave the Germans the velocity
of the shell when it reached the screen.
The holes it made in tbe screens gave
them three or more points in (he curve.
This enabled them to plot a section of 2
the curve. They could tell from the
explosion the size of the shell approxl
mately. This would enable them te
know the velocity with which the shell
would leave the gun.
"With these elements—a section
the trajectory, the velocity of the sheU
when It reached the screens and a
The fourth and concluding article
this series will appear soon. It 1&,
titled
I
heavy with fog,
making aerial observation difficult
Eow the Germans Got the Range.
"Then an olii. or who had been aa
observer in the iM.sso-Japanese war
explained it. Tbe Japanese had used
a system at it Arthur to locate
some hidden Itus iaa butteries that this
chap said the (io. muns must be em
ploying, and I guess be was right.
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knowledge of the Initial velocity of
certain sized shell—they had more thaa
enough data to figure ont exactly
where the projectile came from.
"In fact, they could check themselves*
on It., because they could plot the whole
curve from the section they had wlth|
their knowledge of the velocity, and'
they could figure the straight distance.^
from the velocity of the shell when tt|
reached the screens and the velocity
they knew It must have when it leffcr
the muzzle of the cannon on board the
monitor. jj
"The best proof that the system
worked was the fact that, no matter
where we moved to, their shots strad-i
died us. and lesides the one wbichf.
came on board us one of our otberf
ships got a shell In the boiler room."
Well, somebody's always taking the!
joy out of life, as we say In America.
After mess we left the monitor, the|
little damage which had been done the|
M. that ran up on the shelf having!
been repaired. Before we went downs
over the rim of the horizon we sawf
our friend the monitor steaming as!*
fast as she could go toward some ves-i
sels flying the Dutch flag. I
"D— all neutrals anyway," sald^
the Brass Hat. He didn't ment) that!
there was anything particularly rep-:
rehensible in being neutral, but If thevhi
were no neutrals we'd always knoiii
who to fire on and who not to. Tluf
trouble is that a lot of ships are cruls4
Ing around under neutral flags andjj
scattering mines in their wake.
"We're always nervous when we'fi
In waters a neutral has just traveri
Down at Dover— But I'm getting aheai
of myself. I will tell about what ba
pened at Dover in my next article.
No. 4—The Dangers of Dover.
Aeroplanes bombard the barracks *s£§
town. German submarines laying mlaiP
in the harbor channel. What happ«ae4
on a destroyer the day after I had
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on her with the officers whom later I
erurted and lent te Iwtk.