New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-31
ed. not for the first time.

hlnted, not TOT the nrst time.
"Oh. that was just a fight. There
was more of it than any other fight, |
suppose. but | expect that all modern
naval actions must be pretty much the
same"
"But what does one do; how does one
feel ?" | insisted, though / knew it was
hopeless.
Zone does ones job. Things are hap
pening all the time. A man may be
right under your nose one minute, serv-
ing a gun or something, and the next
minute he isn't there"
"And one notices that at the time y
Eyes; but there's no time TO keep on
noticing it. You've got to carry on
somehow or other or your show stops
| tell you what one does notice, though.
If one goes below for anything, one has
TO pass through n fat somewhere, and
one sees the old wardroom clock tick
ing, or photographs pinned up, or any
thing Of that sort. One notices that
When a ship Blows Up
ooh, yes, and there was another
thing-the way a ship seemed TO blow
up. If you were far Off her you'd see
glare, then blaze and then the
smoke miles high, lifting quite slowly.
Then you'd get the row and war OF it
lust like humping over submarines.
Then. long while after, perhaps you'd
run through a regular rain OF bits OF
burning paper coming down on the
decks like showers of volcanic ash. you
know"
The door Of the operating rooms
seemed Just about 10 open, bat IL shut
again.
Aud the Huns Runnery?"
"That was vicious sometimes. They
began quite we'll and went to pieces
after they'd been 'strafed' little. but
sometimes they picked up sgain. There
was one Hun boat that got no end
Of a hammering, and 10 seemed 10 do
her gunnery good. She improved ire
mendously till we sank her. ! expected
we'd be Knocked out. There was some
scientific Hun in control and he'd been
succeeded by a man who knew how
Fritz" Now IL Hun"
II used to be Fritz" last year when
they spoke Of the enemy. Now IL is
Hun" or, as have heard. "Yahun."
being the superlative Of "Yahoo." In
the Napoleonic wars we called the
Fronchmen too many names for any
one of them TO endure, but this is an
age Of standardization.
And what about our lower dock?" I
continued.
They Oh. they carried on MS
usual. IL takes lot 90 impress the
lower deck when they're busy"
And he mentioned several little
things that confirmed this. They had
great deal 10 do and they did IL
serenely, because they had been trained
to carry on under all conditions with
out panicking. What they did in the
way Of running repairs was even more
wonderful, If that be possible. than
their normal routine.
The lower deck nowadays is full of
strange fish with unlookcd-fo for accom-
plishments, as in the recorded case Of
the two simple seamen Of destroyer.
who, when the need was sorest. came
20 the front as trained experts in first
aid.
And now what about the actual Hun
losses at Jutland ?" | ventured.
You've seen the list. haven't you"
"Yes. But it occurred to me that
they might have been R shade under
estimated and | thought, perhaps
Curtain Covers Information
A perfectly plain asbestos fire cur
tain descended in front of the already
locked door. IL was none of his bust
ness to dispute the drive. II there
were any discrepancies between the
estimate and the results one might be
sure that the enemy kney about them,
which was the chief thing that mat
tered.
II was said to be Joss that the
light was so bad at the hour Of the
last roundup, when our main feet had
come down from the north and SHOW
elled the Hun around on his tracks.
Per contra, had IL been any other
kind of weather the odds were the
Hun would not have ventured so far.
As IL was, the Huns fleet had come
out and gone back again. none the
better for the air and exercise.
We must be thankful for what wo
had managed TO pick up; but talking
of picking up, there was an instance
of an almost unparalleled Joss
which had stuck in his memory.
A soldier man related 10 one OF the
officers in one of our ships that was
put down had got five days leave
from the trenches, which he had spent
with his relative aboard. and thus
OGODptQ III lOI the NUOAt
He had been employed in helping t.
spot and had lived up on a mast ill
the ship sank, when he stepped of
into the water and swan about I'LL
he was fshed out and put ashore.
Rebuked for His Pains
By that time, the tale goes. his en-
CINE room dried khaki had shrunk half
way up his legs and arms, in which cos
tune he reported himself TO the War
Office and pleaded for one little days
extension of leave TO make himself de-
cent.
mot bit of it," said the War Office.
"If you choose to spend your leave
playing with sailormen and getting wet
all over, that's your concern. You will
return to duty by to-night's boat"
This may be libel on the War Office,
but it sounds very like them.
"And he had to-" said the boy, "but
expect he spent the next week at