The Brussels Post, 1916-4-13, Page 2A LONE HAND
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The Capture of a German .Pirate
CHAPTER L
Tohn Ci'ano, Marine englneer, Bonze•
Woe of H.M. Royal, Navy, sat in e
wicker chair on the broad hotel var.
anda, indulging in the futile but very
common amusement of wishing that
today were to -morrow, He had
flnislred the eomrnieston that had
brought hien to this now half -deserted
port of Coatzacoalcos, on the coast of
Mexico, ,.and only awaited the maze
boat which would arrive next day. He
greatly desired to be back in New
York, for hie resignation bad already
been accepted by the great shipbuild-
ing firm with which he had been em-
ployed, and his arrangements were all
'nada for returning at once to Eng-
land and offering his services to the
Mother Country,
Ile was still young, active, and very
strong; the wish In Ills heart was that
he might be sent to the front. But
Ms mind told him that his proper
place was in the groat shipyards on
the Tyne, where the clatter of ham -
niers on steel went an night and day,
and men strained nerve, brain, and
muscle to repair the broken ships that
limped in from the North Sea, and to
turn out new steel gladiators, that
England's grip on the Seven Seas
might not be loosened. He knew that
his services would be eagerly welcom
ed by the Naval Beare, as he has
made. a name along certain lines of
marine construction that quite belied
his youthful appearance.
His mind was still occupied with the
contents of the week-old newspapers
scattered at his feet, which chronicled
the disappearance of a number of
British vessels plying between Aus-
tralian and Oriental ports and the
west coast of the United States, Ten.
or twelve ships were now long over-
due, and there were rumours that
wreckage, appearing to belong to His
Majesty's light. cruiser Guernsey, has
drifted ashore at Tahiti. Fears were
expressed that there was still a swift
German cruiser at large in the Pacific,
despite a statement by the Admiralty
that every German war -vessel had
been fully accounted for except those
in German home waters. This. state-
ment laid the blame on a severe Cy.;•
lone that had lately raged in mid -
Pacific.
It was a quiet scene that met his
eyes as he looked from the veranda
over the luxurious tropical verdure
of the courtyard, across the town with
its polyglot mixture of old native and
modera commercial architecture, to
the long docks and railroad yards that
bordered the bay. The opening of the
Panama Canal, the European war, and.
the chaotic conditions in Mexico
self had combined to reduce the once
great traffic through this, the Atlantic
port of the Tehuantepec ship -railway,
to a fraction of its former propor-
tions. A single ship was unloading at
the docks, a rusty tramp steamer fly-
ing the flag of Holland.
who, like a nest of busy ants, trunbled
then back into tete warebottses,
As he walked along among the plies
of freight, his quick eye noted some.
thing of interest, and he stopped to ex-
amine it, It was only a small metal
band or otatnp on the joints of e
long, narrow, wooden box. It was the
shape and construction of these iron
bands that had caughthis eye. They
were admirably designed for the pur-
pose, and something about them seem-
ed familiar to him. They had a
Peculiar arrangement of email metal
claws to engage the wood; and he was
positive that,. sometime and some-
where, he had seen them used before.
The box on which they were used
was some three feet square and fifteen
feet long, and there were about twenty
like it la the pile. Besides certain
i1 cabbalistic consignment marks, it
bore, stencilled in English, the words,
Terra-cotta, Fragile,' The though
.ran through his mind that the bode
probably contained ornamental co
urns for the palace of some success-
ful trader or petty ruler on a coral
Island of Oceania, He resumed his
walk back to the hotel; but the
thought of the iron strap•bands kept
coming back, for his memory could
not place their association, and did
not like to admit a lapse.
The same thought came again nee
morning as he splasbed in his bath
happy that he wows soon be sailin
north across the Gulf, bound to thro
heart, mind, and body into the grea
war -game; and something, possibly
the stimulus of the cold watt'
brought the answer like a flash. He
had seen those straps before in the
town of Essen, in Germany, where are
located the great Krupp gunworks
Many years before while filling his first
billet in a Belgian shipyard, he ha
made several trips into Germany, ob
servant, as always. it was at the Krupp
works that he had seen cars loaded
with boxes carrying those peculiar
bands, and lead earned a reprimand
from a watchman, or examining them
too closely, This explained the
strange uueasinesa that bad affected
him on. seeing them again, O1 course,
commercial manufacturing concerns
had undoubtedly come to use them. It
was a good clamp for heavy boxes.
Iso put the matter out of his mind,
and went down to breakrast.
But the stubborn thing would not
stay out. Why had he not seen that
strap since the first time until now ?
He had seen hundreds of cargoes un-
loaded in all parts of the world, lie
had examined the packing of thous-
ands of parcels of sea -freight, had
written technical articles on the sub-
ect; it was one of his hobbies; and
never, since he was at Essen, had
this particular form of iron strap
passed under his eye till now. It
was very strange.
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tracks, However, a door stood open,
and he walked into the cool, gloomyll
room, There were the boxes a
s I right, piled near the opposite door.
1" He started toward them, but a voice
stopped him.
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'I beg the senor's pardon. Perhaps
he has a permit from the superin-
tendent ?'
'No, I haven't time for that, I must
' catch the mail -boat,' answered Crane,
as his hand went to his pocket, and
came out with a silver peso.
The man shook his head, though he
eyed the silver wistfully. 'I am sorry,
senor. Any one entering the ware•
I house must have a permit. It is o'd•
ere;
'Oh, come 1' said Crane, as he pulled
out four more of the coins. 'The boat
leaves in a few minutes, and I prob-
ably can't get a permit and be back in
time! And he jingled the coins se-
ductively.
But the watchman was firm. 'I am
a poor man, senor, with many chil-
dren. Who ate I that I should break
the orders of the superintendent? i
lshould probably lose my place:
Crane walked slowly down the dock,
He had had some experience with
Latin-American officials; he knew that
failure to accept a bribe could usual-
ly be traced to a larger counter -bribe,
or unusual pressure of spine kind, He
sat down on a pile, in sight of the
door, but some distance away, and
stared at the murky, greenish flood
that heaved In oily undulations below
hum. This thing was getting on his
nerves. All his inclinations were to-
ward the maIl•boat, and a quick voy-
age north and east. Bet a number of
unformed and exasperating suspicions
tugged the other way.
As he sat pondering, two men came
down the dock from the direction of
the harbour -master's otMee, One was
a dapper, alert fellow, In the "uniform
of the Tehuantepec Railway Com -
Pane; the other was a fall, dark man,
dressed like a ship's officer in the
freighting or coasting trade. But
there was something about his gait
and carriage that aroused in Crane the
same sensation as those peculiar iron
straps had done. The two turned into
the warehouse, and Crane arose and
sauntered pest the door. Glancing in,
he saw the tall man standing by the
pile of long boxes, evidently cheolcing
them off by a paper in his hand. The
watchman was talking volubly to tate
railway official, and Crane quicitened
his puce till he struck the crowded
side -waits which led to the melt -boat,
lose almost ready to leave the dock.
As he raced along he came to a quick
decision; and when the Galveston
pulled in her gang -planks, a few min-
utes later, John Crane had already re.
rieved his bags, packed them into a
lekety closed cab, end was rattling
vet- the rough streets to 0 rather ob-
cure 110101 an ills other 'side of the
own.
Having euguged 0 room, he retired
o it, and proceeded t0 ehan e 1
It was a Mexican watchman, who
had been sprawling on a pile of
freight. He was a ragged, dirty lit-
tle man, but a serviceable -looking rifle
leaned against the wall beside him
He was saying, 'Buenos digs; senor,
Is there something you desire ?'
'I simply wanted to check that pile
of boxes before leaving, to see that
they are all there,' answered Crane
readily.
The rays of the sun were by now
slanting well from the west, and
Then the waiter appeared with
fresh papers. The mail -boat had
coma in during the early morning;
she would sail at noon. He glanced
ver the papers, and his sense of un-
asiness began to take shape. There
was more about the mysterious non-
ppearance of ships in Pacific waters.
he list of the overdue was longer; a
oat belonging to one or them had
een found waterlogged, its stern torn
way, with the body of a sailo•, who
ad evidently been killed by a bullet,
ntangled in its painter. There were
onjectures that a German cruiser had
lipped through the North Sea COrdon
nd into the Pacific by unfrequented
outes; that she was probably intern -
ng the crews of sullen vessels on
ome remote island. British and Jap -
1108e wars;l)p were ,souring the
"chipelagoeo !.:r traces of the stip-,
osed marauder,
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Crane stood up and shook himself, de- e
aiding on a stroll before dinner. He
walked down the narrow cobbled a
streets, lined and peopled with the T
curiously mixed evidences of native in- b
dolence and foreign industry, until he b
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gravitated naturally to the docks,
where he strolled about with an in-
terested professional eye on the un-
loading of the Dutch steamer. Ills
habit of close observation and his re-
tentive memory of small details had
played a large pare in his successful
career: He had the typical engineer-
ing mind that is constantly ' of the
alert for better ways of doing things,
and neglects no point, however small,
which leads to that end. 5o he
"Retched keeuly the work of the gig-
antic steel cranes, their tons of metal tb
skeleton animated by the small human a
being who sat in a little box on the e
neck of each, with his row of levers q
before him. There was something al- fl
most eerie in the way they swung Out th
over the deck, dropped a mighty arm m
.through the ship's hatch, grasped a an
Withal handful of boxes and bales, and
swinging back again, deposited them he
gently on the dock -floor,( where they all
were pounced upon by the porters, , tw
As Crane ate bis brealnfasr. these
tugs kept running through his mind, G r
nd, tangled up with them, the lucid-
nt of the strap iron bands, which
nits refused to stay dawn. Soon he
nished the meal, paid his bill, saw'
at his luggage was placed in the t
all -boat pile., then took up his hat's
d struck a rapid gall for the docks.
The Dutch freighter was gone andel
r slip lay empty, The freight hole 1
been removed to the warehouse b(
een the dock and the railroad t.
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"Mother uses it for all her cooking—for Cookies, Cakes,
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suit of iioavyt 'Work -stained gar'inents
which he often wore In the t'ouglzor
work of his callins,With heavy boots
and a battered hat pulled over his
brow, be !poked very different, as he
Slouched back to the waterfront, from
the spick-and-span young professional
man of the morning, The watchman
whom he had attempted to bribe a
few hours before looked at hila with.
out a flicker of recognition aB he pas -
sod the warehouse door, A casual
glance inside assured Mini that -tha
,long boxes were still there,
He .lounged around the docks for e
couple 01 houre, studying the ahippfng
in the harbour and keeping an alert
eye for the big seafaring man with
the niilitat'y bearing, A British
freighter was taking in a cargo of
canoe, coffee, and har'd'woods "'front
the interior; anti a refrigerator ebb
of the Hutted Fruit Company's Line,
fed by two giant Cranes, was making
a gargantuan' meal on bananas. A
few small coasting -vessels were con-
ing and going; while a trim white
yacht, with gay awnings shading a
white -clad group, showed by the
Stars and Stripes at her masthead
that some American gentleman of lei-
sure was sojourning hea'e. Not a
suspicious note marred the peaceful
activity and tropic indolence of the
scene,
(To be Continued.)
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Home -Grown Feeds—The Basis of All
' Rations.
Some mens entertain the idea that
in order to make a high record with a
cow, she must be particularly well
bred, fed on specially prepared feeds,
and stabled in the most modern
stables. Such is not necessarily the
case. Many cows, that are a credit,
to their owners, have attained the'
pinnacle of fame in the dairy wor
by having the right blood in the
veins, and then converting feeds, sn
as are grown on the average farm,
into milk and butter fat. True, the
dairyman plays an important part in
securing the best from his cows by
his ability to study the requirements
of the individual animal, and to com-
bine tate various feeds into a balanc-
ed ration suitable for the dairy cow
The methods of raising calves an
feeding high -producing cows, as prac
tired by a noted Ayrshire breeder, o
Norwich, may convince breeders jus
starting in the business that breeding
careful feeding, and proper attentim
are the essentials in building up
show herd,
The herd referred to consists o
from 30 to 35 animals; in the pin
of condition, Individual
cords are kept, and mature cows pro
duce from 10,000 to 12,000 pounds o
high -testing milk during a lactatio
period. In years past, animals from
this hard have won laurels in stroll
competition at many of the big shows.
This hard is housed in a well -lighted,
frame stable. Silage forms the basis
of the ration, and about forty pound
is fed each animal per day. Corn
for ensilage is sown quite thick]
as it is believed more feed, and bet
ter feed, can be gown per acre than
if corn is sown with the aim of pro-
ducing matured cobs. In filling the
silo, the corn is cut very fine, and it
is believed to make better silage than
the coarse -cut corn. A few roots
are grown on the farm, and are con-
sidered excellent feed for dairy cows.
If it were not for the extra labor en-
tailed in handling a root crop, a larger
acreage would be grown. Clover
hay is fed night and morning. The
concentrate part of the .ration is com-
posed of oat chop and bran, in equal
proportions, the amount fed each
cow depending on the milk flow, 9 he
heaviest milkers are given from ten
to twelve pounds per day. Two or
three pounds of oil -cake or cotton-
seed meal, are fed per day. Prefer-
ence is given to feeding oil -cake one
meal, and cottonseed the next. The
cows are watered in the stable, but
are turned out for exercise when the
weather is favorable,
The Milk Front This Herd.
goes to a cendensary, consequently
here is no skim -milk on which to
raise the calves. When possible, the
owe are bred to freshen in the fall,
s there is usually more time during
he winter for properly attending to
he calves and heavy milkers, than
here is in the spring and summer
months. Whole milk is fed the cal-
ves for four or live weeks, after
which the quantity of milk is gradu-
]ly reduced and prepared calf meals
sed. At four months of age, the
elves tu'e fed only four pounds of
whole mills, and are entirely weaned
ram milk by the time they are three
ninths old. Oat chop, oil -cake, si-
ege, and clover hay are kept before
he selves. On i:he above feed, young
inmate appear i ear t
p obe
i thrifty.
Other breeders in Nor wieli
rict, tvlto have made big milk and
utter -fat reeoxls with then• herds,
sly on silage, clover hay, oat. chop,
'an, and oil -cake or (•nttonsecd meal,
form the ration. The first three
eels m0)).ioned can he grown on al -
est any farm, tuul the quantity "1'
e last three feeds necessary t(4 lltt
-
eren
t p the ration to not large. Cuw�>:,
matey noted howls are raised on a
lrtited amount of whole milk, al,,ne
th oil -('ales or self -meal and home-
eawn roughage.
It is believed that the /ic(')8y"r
rmer with his grad :tock 01ln in -
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crease the returns from his cows
judiciously combining the fee
grown on the farm with a small qua
tity of purchased concentrates, ri
by producing pork.through the utilization
cls of pasture.—Wisconsin Experiment
n- Station,
ch ri
in protein, to form a balanced ration,
The cow is a manufacturing plant,
and the finished product will be in
keeping with the -capacity of the
plant and material supplied. For
greatest returns, both the plant and
raw material must be good.
In some districts dairymen are
raising choice calves without skim -
milk, and with feeding only a limit-
ed amount of whole milk. Dairymen
with a supply of skim -milk have the.
advantage over those selling whole
milk, in raising calves. A good deal of
the success in feeding young m• old
animals depends on the feeder. Feed-
ing stock, so as to keep it In good
condition all the time, it is not an
easy task. Simply putting the feed
in the mangers is not enough, but the
animals must be watched closely to
see that the feed agrees with them,
There are many little attentions give
to the stock by a real stockman tha
would never be considered importan
by an amateur•. Yet, it is payin
strict attention to details that bring
success. It is necessary to know eec
individual animal in the herd, an
endeavor to supply its wants.
le vai'iety of feeds to form as near a
balanced ration as possible, regularity
ehin feeding, and strict attentions to
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it was a misfortune to miss them; I
h had no idea that soldiers in war were
d to be regarded as police on their beat;
A in met simplicity I was under the im-
pression that our troops had gone to
the front, not to take up and handcuff
the aggressor, but, bn the contrary,
t to wipe him out and do for him. In-
1 deed, in my reading of the situation
I had never regarded the enemy in the
light of a burglar bent on 'swag' only,
but rather as an assassin under or-
ders to murder, massacre and man-
gle widows and children, leaving them
nothing but their eyes to weep with,
f "0f course if Dr. Meyer's conten-
s tion is right I must confess to being
s quite wrong. Az other words, if our
artillery is not out primarily to find
s the range for killing our foe, but only
to shoot or frighten black beetles,
rabbits and mosquitoes, my advice to
kill Germans is altogether out of
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MUST SLAY OR BE SLAIN.
Father Vaughan Defends His "Kill
Enemy" Advice.
Strong' criticism has been voiced
against Father Bernard Vaughan, the
famous preacher, for having advised
the British soldiers from the pulpit to
kill the Germans instead of being kill-
ed by them. Several letters of pro-
test having been printed in the Lon-
don Daily Graphic the following re-
ply was sent to that paper by Father
Vaughan from Manchester;
"A clipping from your enterprising
and clear sighted paper contains let-
ters .from the Rev. F. B. Meyer and
the Rev. J. H. Newsham -Taylor
blaming me for advising our troops
to kill the enemy instead of being
killed by him. Truth to tell, till I
read Dr. Meyer's letter I had no no-
tion that we considered it a `misfor
tune' to kill Germans.
"In my stupidity I had always felt
etaits, are items of importance tha
are considered by the successfu
stockman.—The Farmers' Advocate,
Why Succulence Pays.
Numerous scientific trials and com-
mon experiences on farms have abun-
dantly demostrated the value of add
ing succulent feeds to the rations o
d farm animals. The beneficial effect
- of succulence, whether supplied a
f pasturage, silage, soilage, or roots
t are many. Just as our Own appetite
are stimulated by fruits and green
b vegetables, succulent feeds are re -
a lishes•
for the animals of the farm
g them to consume more feed
f and convert it into useful products,
k It is reasonable to hold that such
palatable feeds stimulate digestion,
- and it is well known that their bene -
f ficial laxative action aids greatly in
n keeping the digestive tracts in good
condition. There is no doubt that, for
g breeding stock, less tense and more
watery flesh, a natural sequence of
feeding succulence, is more conducive
to vigorous young at birth and to
s their hearty maintenance after birth
than is the condition of hard, dry flesh
y, produced by feeding only dry forage
through the winter.
The dairy cow gives her maximum
returns when she is supplied with
succulence. Such feeds tend toward
rapid sturdy growth with the young
of all farm animals. Some succulent
food is especial; beneficial in keep-
ing the horse in condition, to which
the thrift of the work horse when
turned out to pasture bears witness.
But the horse at hard or fast work
should receive only a limited allow-
ance of these feeds. Steers and sheep
make rapid and economical gains on
pasture, and grass-fed animals are in
the best possible condition to make
rapid gains when placed in the feed
lot, Among the most important con-
tributions of the experiment stations
are their demonstrations of the
economy of feeding silage to fatten-
ing cattle and sheep and of the pos-
sibilities of cheapening the cost of
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"As for our friend the rector of St.
Peter's, Hatton Garden, the Rev. New-
sham -Taylor, and his rooted conviction
that it 111 beseems ecclesiastical lips
to advise killing Germans, I must
make bold to say to him in reply that
the only reason that I can discover
for the unseemliness of such advice
is thab it is unbecoming a minister of
religion to speak the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
"Sir, with Joffre and Kitchener,
French and Haig, I beg once more he
raise my voice reminding my country-
men that victory can be ours in one
way only, by artillery attrition. And
I find that the chief reason why our
war lords to -day are so sanguine
about peace rooted in triumph over
the foe is that our artillery is now
better than his, As a plain English-
man, I understand this to mean we
can kill off the enemy quicker than he
us.
"If our Nonconformists ministers
had only exhorted their followers to
join the colors in the language of Jof-
fre and Roberbs instead of in the
hesitating terns of Meyer and New-
sham -Taylor " I venture to think we
should now still he under the volun-
tary system instead of saddled with
a compulsion bill.
"Sir, unless our troops are out at
bhp front to kill Germans let them
come home and get killed with us.
They won't, have to wait long."
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R SSIPJ S SEE TI
GRAND FLEET
GREETED BY SIR JOHN :JI LLICO
IN NORTH SEA,
Joint Action By Allied Navies Suga
Nested by British
Admiral,
M. Vasily Nemirovitch-Dantehonho,
the veteran wile correspondent of The
Russkoe Slovo, has written for The
London Trines the' following account
of his recent visit to the Grand Fleet:
Our first trip to the North leaves
a still deeper impression on our minds
that the 'whole of Great Britain lives
and breathes for the war. Every man
of serviceable age has donned khaki.
In Scotland I saw old men wearing
regimentals.
We encountered evidences of the
"grin realities" of war at one of the
northern ports. Vessels were contin-
ually loading heavy ammunition, in -
eluding I8z/a inch and 15 inch simile,
and heavy chain booms for tiio Fleet
and telegraph material for France.
Sight of the Fleet.
Early one morning the fastest de-
stroyer in the Fleet bore us quickly
across some boisterous water to a
certain bay where we could distin-
guish from afar the outlines of Brit-
ain's Grand Fleet, so well named. All
sorts of scouting and auxiliary ves-
t sels dotted the intervening waters. .A.
whole flotilla of mine -sweepers was
hastening towards the North. Sea. De-
stroyers plowed the bay in many di-
rections.
Our first sight of what was only
a part of the British Fleet Evill long
remain in our memories. Within a
framework of snowclad hills the giant
forms of Dreadnoughts rose out of
the heaving bosom of the roadstead;
but when we had penetrated to the
very heart of the Great Armada our
imagination was spellbound by the
sight of the colossal shapes that seem-
ed to eat up the horizon. Their grim
sides, frowning turrets, and rapacious -
mewed guns all bespoke a releetless
purpose,
At Target Practice.
A couple of light cruisers having
quietly slipped their moorings, dash-
ed forward to give us a display of
gun practice, As they attained their
fulleet speed they proceeded' to pour
out a stream of projectiles at the tar-
gets moored for away, The shells
hurtled through the air and present-
ly the waters around the targets were
splashed with columns of snow-white
foam till the targets themselves suf-
fered.
Like great steel falcons swooping
on their prey four destroyers ap-
peared intent on torpedoing a fan-
cied enemy. Faster and faster they
sped towards the mark, their glisten-
ing hulls obscured in clouds of spray.
Snakelike they turned and twisted,
preparing to surround and attack their
foe from all sides. But faster still
swirled our destroyer, easily over-
hauling the attackers and enabling us
to follow every movement. Flashlike
the torpedoes darted from their sides,
speeding like thunderbolts on their
deadly mission. The spent torpedoes
betrayed their presence thanks to a
simple and ingenuous contrivance,
and were easily recovered,
Through the spray raised by our
fast ship we caught sight of a great
white vessel bearing the Red Cross;
it was the hospital ship of one of the
squadrons.
Greeted by Jellicoe. `
One after the other we reviewed
the enormous steel structures. Fin-
ally we came alongside the senior
flagship. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe
greeted us on the quarterdeck, His
spare, clean-cut face and youthful
figure breathes strength and confi-
dence, Beside him was Vice -Admiral
Sir D. Sturdee, the hero of the Falk-
lands fight, and the whole stale. Due
meeting deeply moved us, and, 1
believe, our hosts also. We were the
first Russians to visit the Grand
Fleet,
Britain's Inventive Genius.
Everything was shown us — the
heart of the great Dreadnought and
its smallest arteries. Below we saw
huge war torpedo launched from
submerged tube. About we inspect -
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ts whence they protrude their hun-
gry jaws. °We had ocular evidence
Britain's inventive genius. Some
the newest devices were worked
y the inventor's themselves.
Our party separated into two
'pups, the first of which, including
Nabolcoff, Egoroff, and myself, with
nie of the officials who accompan-
d us, remained to lunch with the
onmander-ln-Chief. On either side
Admiral Jellicoe sat Nabolcoff
td myself. He tallied with es about
ussia—a subject that appeared to
ord him inexhaustible
interest
d pleasure. While he was propos-
g the health of his guests we
toned with no slight: emotion to
s references to the possibility of
nt operatiots by our respective
Ms. Itis words of gratitude to
ussia for "saving the Allies" were
livered with much feeling.
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r reception by the Grand Fleet. Our
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