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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: To Kiel in the 'Hercules' - -Author: Lewis R. Freeman - -Release Date: March 19, 2013 [EBook #42374] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TO KIEL IN THE 'HERCULES' *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42374 ***</div> <h1>TO KIEL IN THE "HERCULES"</h1> @@ -345,7 +307,7 @@ By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.</span></div> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_198">198</a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">IX</td> - <td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">To Warnemünde and Rügen</span></td> + <td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">To Warnemünde and Rügen</span></td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_224">224</a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">X</td> @@ -396,7 +358,7 @@ By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.</span></div> <td class="tdl">In Kiel dockyard</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#i_192a">192</a></td></tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">H. M. S. <i class="ship">Viceroy</i> entering Kiel Canal lock at Brunsbüttel</td> + <td class="tdl">H. M. S. <i class="ship">Viceroy</i> entering Kiel Canal lock at Brunsbüttel</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#i_200">200</a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdl">Semaphore station on Kiel Canal, from <i class="ship">Hercules</i></td> @@ -411,7 +373,7 @@ By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.</span></div> <td class="tdl"><i>Hindy</i> (left) and German pilot who claimed to have launched the torpedo which damaged the <i class="ship">Sussex</i></td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#i_228">228</a></td></tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">British prisoners and German sailors at Warnemünde</td> + <td class="tdl">British prisoners and German sailors at Warnemünde</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#i_240">240</a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdl">View of Kiel Canal from nearmost turret of the <i class="ship">Hercules</i></td> @@ -458,7 +420,7 @@ warship of the Allies to penetrate deeply into them since the Battle of the Bight, not long after the outbreak of the war—was approaching German<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> waters. Indeed, the whole last act of the great -naval drama—from the coming of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> +naval drama—from the coming of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> to the Forth, with a delegation to receive the terms of surrender, to the incomparable pageant of the surrender itself—had been played out behind the @@ -665,11 +627,11 @@ German naval ensign at her main, heading in toward<span class="pagenum"><a name= the mouth of the Firth of Forth under the escort of a squadron of British light cruisers and destroyers. I had witnessed the meeting of the -<i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, which was bringing over Admiral +<i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, which was bringing over Admiral Meurer and other German naval officers to arrange the details of the surrender of the High Sea Fleet, from the foretop of the <i class="ship">Cassandra</i>. -The rendezvous, at which the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> had been +The rendezvous, at which the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> had been directed by wireless to meet the Sixth Light Cruiser Squadron ordered to escort her in, chanced to fall in an area under which a German @@ -678,7 +640,7 @@ its full load of mines. These, in the regular course of patrol, had been discovered and swept up within a day or two, but since that fact had not been communicated to the Germans, the -<i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, doubtless thinking the English sense +<i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, doubtless thinking the English sense of humour had prompted them to prepare for her a bit of a surprise in the way of a lift by a German petard, skulked off to the southward, @@ -688,7 +650,7 @@ two things I remembered especially in connection with that historic meeting—one was the mob of civilians (probably would-be delegates from the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council) jostling the -officers on the roomy bridge of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, +officers on the roomy bridge of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, and the other was the fluent cursing of the gunnery<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> lieutenant of the <i class="ship">Cassandra</i>, who was with me in the foretop, over the unkind fate which had @@ -707,7 +669,7 @@ time I was thinking of her there in the fog of the Bight, she had collided with a mine in the Baltic and gone to the bottom.</p> -<p>There was another picture of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> +<p>There was another picture of the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> ready to follow on as the first dissolved. This was the brilliantly lighted hull of her—the only undarkened ship of the hundreds in the Firth of @@ -724,7 +686,7 @@ Meurer and his staff were summoned to make a report to their "superiors" on their return. This strange meeting had been convened shortly after midnight (so the captain of the M.L., -which had been patrolling round the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> +which had been patrolling round the <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> all night, told me), but still, five hours later, as "M.L. 262" slid quietly by at quarter speed, the rumble of guttural Teutonic voices raised in @@ -745,13 +707,13 @@ was that of five German naval officers, chagrined and crestfallen, being piped over the side to the barge which was to take them to the destroyer standing by in the fog to return with them to the -<i class="ship">Königsberg</i> at her anchorage, Inchkeith. It was +<i class="ship">Königsberg</i> at her anchorage, Inchkeith. It was "Officers' Night" for the kinema in the "Q.E.," and they were showing a "made-in-California" -film called the "Rise and Fall of Julius Cæsar."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +film called the "Rise and Fall of Julius Cæsar."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> I remember distinctly that Casca had just driven the first thrust, and the mob of conspirators were -thronging upon Cæsar round the "base of Pompey's +thronging upon Cæsar round the "base of Pompey's statue," when the commander sent me word that the guests were about to depart.</p> @@ -796,7 +758,7 @@ the rear-admiral's flag, in the lead, with the <i class="ship">Moltke</i> and <i class="ship">Derfflinger</i> next in line, told how, from the light cruiser in which he had chased them at Dogger Bank, he had seen at least two -of the three, leaving the <i class="ship">Blücher</i> to her fate, +of the three, leaving the <i class="ship">Blücher</i> to her fate, dashing for the shelter of their minefields with flames swirling about their mastheads. Another spoke casually of how, in the <i class="ship">Tiger</i> at Jutland, he @@ -805,13 +767,13 @@ was rounding a "windy corner" as Beatty turned north to meet the British Battle Fleet, under the concentrated fire of all the battle-cruisers—with the exception of the <i class="ship">Hindenburg</i>, but with the -<i class="ship">Lützow</i> added—now steaming past us. We remarked +<i class="ship">Lützow</i> added—now steaming past us. We remarked the "flattery of imitation" in the resemblance of the <i class="ship">Hindenburg</i> with her long run of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> forecastle and "flare" bows, to the <i class="ship">Repulse</i> and <i class="ship">Renown</i>, and of the symmetrical, two-funnelled <i class="ship">Bayern</i> as she appeared between the <i class="ship">Kaisers</i> and -the <i class="ship">Königs</i> in the German battleship line to the +the <i class="ship">Königs</i> in the German battleship line to the British <i class="ship">Queen Elizabeth</i> class laid down before the war. The <i class="ship">Queen Elizabeth</i> herself, falling out of line to take the salute of the ships of the @@ -847,7 +809,7 @@ inner entrance to Gutter Sound.</p> <p>The final picture, as it chanced, which my fancy projected on the curtain of the fog was one that embraced what I saw from the steam pinnace -which was taking me to the <i class="ship">Impérieuse</i>, on my way +which was taking me to the <i class="ship">Impérieuse</i>, on my way back to Rosyth. An angry Orkney sunset was flaring over the hills of Hoy—a sullenly red glow, gridironed by thin strata of black cloud like the @@ -876,7 +838,7 @@ from sight, the head-on silhouette of an unmistakably German light cruiser appeared. For an instant the soaring mast and the broad bridge suggested that my fancy had materialized the -<i class="ship">Königsberg</i> again. Then the rat-a-tat of a signal +<i class="ship">Königsberg</i> again. Then the rat-a-tat of a signal searchlight recalled me to my senses, and it did not need the chief yeoman of signals' "There she is, sir; sending away a boat to bring us a @@ -904,10 +866,10 @@ over the side and saluted the officer of the day and the intelligence officer of the admiral's staff, who awaited them at the head of the gangway. The first was a three-stripe officer of the rank the -Germans call Korvettenkapitän, the second a warrant +Germans call Korvettenkapitän, the second a warrant officer, and the third (as we presently were informed) a qualified merchant pilot. The -Korvettenkapitän was slender of figure, and had +Korvettenkapitän was slender of figure, and had a well-bred, gentlemanly appearance not in the least suggestive of the "Hunnishness" one associated—and with good reason, too, as subsequent @@ -934,14 +896,14 @@ saturnine phizzes of Trotsky and Liebknecht. One knew in an instant that here was the super-Bolshevik, and looked for the red band on his sleeve, which could only have been temporarily removed -while he appeared among the Engländers +while he appeared among the Engländers to spy upon the naval officer whom the revolutionists would not permit to act alone. The way things stood between the two became evident almost at once, for the officer informed the British interpreter at the first opportunity that he could not be responsible for the pilot, while the latter, -when some query from the Korvettenkapitän respecting +when some query from the Korvettenkapitän respecting the position of a certain buoy was repeated to him, contented himself with drawing his fingers significantly across his throat, clucking @@ -1135,7 +1097,7 @@ Volke</i>"—"our people." "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Wir wollen Demokratie und keine Diktatur</i>," they concluded; "we want a democracy and no dictator."</p> -<p>Then we heard the German battleship <i class="ship">König</i> +<p>Then we heard the German battleship <i class="ship">König</i> (which, in company with the <i class="ship">Dresden</i>, a destroyer and two transports, we had sighted that morning tardily <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en voyage</i> to make up the promised quota<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> @@ -1153,7 +1115,7 @@ High Sea Fleet what arrangements were being made to send back the surplus crews of the interned ships, and for a while the vibrant ether let fall such familiar names as <i class="ship">Karlsruhe</i>, <i class="ship">Emden</i>, -<i class="ship">Nürnberg</i>, <i class="ship">Hindenburg</i>, <i class="ship">Kaiser</i>, <i class="ship">Von der Tann</i> and +<i class="ship">Nürnberg</i>, <i class="ship">Hindenburg</i>, <i class="ship">Kaiser</i>, <i class="ship">Von der Tann</i> and <i class="ship">Friedrich der Grosse</i>, men from all of which, we learned, were to be started homeward in a transport called the <i class="ship">Pretoria</i>.</p> @@ -1285,7 +1247,7 @@ every time he came off for a conference.</p> under Admiral Goette's presidency followed him up the gangway. The first of these, a tall blond officer of fine bearing, was on the list as Kapitan -z. S. von Müller, but it was not until after the final +z. S. von Müller, but it was not until after the final conference, over a fortnight later, that we learned for certain that he was the able and resolute commander of the <i class="ship">Emden</i>, famous in the first year of @@ -1294,7 +1256,7 @@ and the fine fight he had put up before being forced to the beach of North Cocos Island by the faster and heavier armed <i class="ship">Sydney</i>. If it was a fact, as has been suggested, that the Germans put Von -Müller on their Naval Armistice Commission because +Müller on their Naval Armistice Commission because of the admiration that had been expressed in the British papers of his brave and sporting conduct on the latter occasion, the effect of this @@ -1372,8 +1334,8 @@ could see, without one grade or another of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pag Iron Cross, worn low on the left breast (or just about over the liver, to locate it more exactly), with its black-and-white ribbon rove through a -lapel. Only Captain Von Müller wore the coveted -"Pour le Mérite," doubtless for his commerce +lapel. Only Captain Von Müller wore the coveted +"Pour le Mérite," doubtless for his commerce destruction with the <i class="ship">Emden</i>. Admiral Goette wore two rows of ribbons, but none of the decorations themselves.</p> @@ -1404,7 +1366,7 @@ of matters in which they were interested.</p> <p>Admiral Goette was seated directly opposite Admiral Browning at the main table, with Commander -(or Korvettenkapitän) Hinzman on his +(or Korvettenkapitän) Hinzman on his right, and Commander Lohman on his left. The former—a shifty-eyed individual, with a pasty complexion and a "mobile" mouth which, in its @@ -1418,7 +1380,7 @@ Commander Lohman had charge of merchant shipping interests, which were principally in connection with the return of British tonnage interned in German harbours at the outbreak of the war. -Captain Von Müller sat at the left-hand corner of +Captain Von Müller sat at the left-hand corner of the table, and Captain Bauer, Chief of Staff, in the corresponding place on the right. At a smaller table opposite the door the eight remaining German @@ -1555,7 +1517,7 @@ where the headquarters of the German Naval Command<span class="pagenum"><a name= were located at the moment, and where there had been a minimum of disorder. The wireless caught ominous fragments pointing to an imminent -<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">coup d'état</i> in Berlin, while rioting was already +<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">coup d'état</i> in Berlin, while rioting was already taking place in Hamburg and Bremen, and Kiel was completely under the control of the workmen and soldiers. It certainly looked as though, @@ -1593,7 +1555,7 @@ of the travel privilege, but the almost total absence of authoritative information concerning the departure of ships from Baltic ports, by which considerable numbers of British were repatriated -<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">viâ</i> Denmark and Sweden, resulted in an almost +<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">viâ</i> Denmark and Sweden, resulted in an almost interminable series of wanderings.</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 571px;"><img id="i_40" src="images/illo_057.jpg" width="571" height="382" alt="" /><br /><div class="caption">THE PADRE OF THE "HERCULES" TALKING WITH NEWLY ARRIVED BRITISH PRISONERS</div></div> @@ -1984,7 +1946,7 @@ the Allied Commission expected to see in German waters were the battleship <i class="ship">Baden</i>, sister of the surrendered <i class="ship">Bayern</i>, and the battle-cruiser <i class="ship">Mackensen</i>, sister of the surrendered <i class="ship">Hindenburg</i>. -The <i class="ship">Regensburg</i> and <i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, which had been +The <i class="ship">Regensburg</i> and <i class="ship">Königsberg</i>, which had been left to the Germans to "get about in," were also considered worthy of study at close range as examples of the latest type of German light cruiser. @@ -1998,7 +1960,7 @@ from the inside were distinctly disappointed in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pa even these most modern examples of German naval construction. After the extremely good fight that practically every one of them—from the <i class="ship">Emden</i> -and <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> and the ships of Von Spee's +and <i class="ship">Königsberg</i> and the ships of Von Spee's squadron at the Falklands to the battle-cruisers of Von Hipper at Jutland—had put up when it was once drawn into action, it was only natural @@ -2528,7 +2490,7 @@ freedom in the face of the "invader." But my companion assured me that the decorations were in honour of the expected arrival home of two regiments of Wilhelmshaven Marines from -the Front. "We have been <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en fête</i> for a week +the Front. "We have been <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en fête</i> for a week now in hourly expectation of their coming, and every day the children have put on their best clothes and carried flags in their hands. But the @@ -2636,7 +2598,7 @@ attack, and in consequence he had been sent along as a "hostage." At least the German term he used was one which could be translated as hostage, but after talking it over we came to the conclusion -that the man's <i>rôle</i> was more analogous to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span> +that the man's <i>rôle</i> was more analogous to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span> that of a "plain clothes" special policeman. There was one of these men attached to every party that made a train journey on the North Sea @@ -2657,12 +2619,12 @@ train, we had our first chance for a peep into Germany through the window of the Press.</p> <p>The four-page sheets turned out to be copies of -<i class="ship">Vorwärts</i>, the <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kölnische Volkszeitung und +<i class="ship">Vorwärts</i>, the <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kölnische Volkszeitung und Handels-Blatt</i>, the <i class="ship">Weser Zeitung</i>, of Bremen, the <i class="ship">Wilhelmshavener Tageblatt</i>, and the <i class="ship">Republik</i>. The latter styled itself the <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Sozialdemokratisches -Organ für Oldenburg und Ostfriesland</i>, and the -<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Mitteilungsblatt der Arbeiter und Soldatenräte</i>. +Organ für Oldenburg und Ostfriesland</i>, and the +<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Mitteilungsblatt der Arbeiter und Soldatenräte</i>. It claimed to be in its thirty-second year, but admitted that all this time, except the fortnight since the revolution, it had borne the name of @@ -2685,9 +2647,9 @@ Tangible evidence of the truth of this statement, it added, might be found in the fact that delegates from the Workmen and Soldiers accompanied Allied parties whenever they landed. -<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Vorwärts</i> tried to convey the same false impression +<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Vorwärts</i> tried to convey the same false impression to its readers, but rather less brazenly. The -<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kölnische Volkszeitung</i> printed a dispatch from +<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kölnische Volkszeitung</i> printed a dispatch from London, in which the <i>Daily Mail</i> was quoted as supporting the "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">australischen Premierministers Hughes'</i>" demand of an indemnity of "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">acht milliarden @@ -2708,9 +2670,9 @@ best "peace time" style. The <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Metropol-Variete</i> (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Neu renoviert!</i>) informed all and sundry that "<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Vier elegante junge Damen!</i>" disported themselves in its "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kabarett</i>" every evening. The -head-line of the great "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Spezialitäten Programm</i>" +head-line of the great "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Spezialitäten Programm</i>" in the theatre was "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Die Grosse Sensation: Martini -Szeny, genannt der 'Ausbrecher-König'!</i>" A +Szeny, genannt der 'Ausbrecher-König'!</i>" A number in the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Metropol's</i> program which appealed to us more than all the others, however, was one which was featured further down the list, for @@ -2761,12 +2723,12 @@ the Allies, or yet for the writings of any of the great protagonists of the "Deutschland Ueber Alles" movement. Most of them appeared to be "Romances" or out-and-out "Thrillers." -Bachem, of Köln, described "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Der Meister</i>" as +Bachem, of Köln, described "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Der Meister</i>" as "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Der Roman eines Spiritisten</i>"; "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Wettertannen</i>" as a "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Tiroler Roman aus der Gegenwart von Hans Schrott</i>"; "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Wenn Irland dich ruft</i>" as "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Der Roman eines Fliegers</i>"; and "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Der blutige -Behrpfennig</i>" as "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Erzählung aus dem Leben +Behrpfennig</i>" as "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Erzählung aus dem Leben eines Priesters</i>." Although one would have thought that the German people had had quite enough of that kind of thing from their late Government, @@ -2962,7 +2924,7 @@ a pig, but only to have the prize withheld when it transpired that he had flushed nothing more lifelike than the plaster image of a pig which,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> cleaver in hand, stood as a butcher's sign in a -village on the island of Rügen. A third claimant +village on the island of Rügen. A third claimant <i>would</i> have won the award had he chanced along five minutes sooner when the villagers were butchering a pig on the occasion when his party @@ -3212,7 +3174,7 @@ planned to do a hasty bit of spying. From the right-hand window I caught a brief glimpse of the ribbon of the coastward road, down the length of which the oddly-assorted pair—the Foreign<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> -Office <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">précis</i> writer and the one-time "shanghai" +Office <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">précis</i> writer and the one-time "shanghai" artist—had stumbled arm-in-arm, treating each other in every gin-shop on the way.</p> @@ -3452,7 +3414,7 @@ them, a score or more in number, all together—were a fine, business-like looking lot. All of them wore some kind of a decoration, most of them several, and among these were two or three of -the highly-prized Orders "<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Pour le Mérite</i>." As +the highly-prized Orders "<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Pour le Mérite</i>." As Norderney was the "star" seaplane station, that body of keen-eyed, square-jawed young flying officers undoubtedly included the cleverest naval @@ -3478,7 +3440,7 @@ one German colony or foreign settlement after<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page another, trying to find the scene into which that florid face (with its warm, wide-set eyes and its full, sensual mouth) fitted. Dar-es-Salaam, -Windhoek, Tsingtau, Yap, Apia, Herbertshöhe—I +Windhoek, Tsingtau, Yap, Apia, Herbertshöhe—I scurried back through them all without uncovering a clue. Where else had I met Germans? The southern "panhandle" of Brazil, the south @@ -3505,7 +3467,7 @@ brother, both on the engineering staff of the Bagdad Railway, were among the guests, the former very smitten with a sloe-eyed sylph of a Greek<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span> Levantine, whose mother (so a friendly gossip -told me) had been a dancer in a café chantant in +told me) had been a dancer in a café chantant in Beirut before she married the Smyrna hairdresser who afterwards made a fortune buying licorice root from the Arabs. The girl (there was no @@ -3635,7 +3597,7 @@ a mountain half a mile high.</p> were of the tried and proven types—<i class="ship">Brandenburgs</i>, <i class="ship">Albatrosses</i>, <i class="ship">Frederichafens</i>, <i class="ship">Gothas</i>, etc.—already well-known to the Allies. (It was not until -the great experimental station at Warnemünde, +the great experimental station at Warnemünde, in the Baltic, was visited a fortnight later that specimens of the latest types were revealed.) The Allied experts of the party were greatly impressed @@ -3752,7 +3714,7 @@ of the same type that had been building. Now that the war was over, he had some doubts as to whether these would ever be completed. "We are having to modify so many of our plans, you -see," he remarked naïvely.</p> +see," he remarked naïvely.</p> <p>On the fuselage of several of the machines there were evidences that signs or marks had been @@ -3978,7 +3940,7 @@ efforts were rewarded, and a half hour later we were settling ourselves in the warm compartment of our waiting train. The Hun has no proper sense of humour. Reverse the -<i>rôles</i>, and any British bluejackets I have ever +<i>rôles</i>, and any British bluejackets I have ever known would have run a German Armistice Commission on to the first sandbank that hove in sight, and damned the consequences.</p> @@ -4157,7 +4119,7 @@ roofs—proved that the harvest had been a generous one.</p> <p>Instead of routing our two-car special over the -all-rail route <i>viâ</i> Bremen, distance and time were +all-rail route <i>viâ</i> Bremen, distance and time were saved by leaving it at a small terminus opposite Bremerhaven, crossing to the latter by tug, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> proceeding north in more or less direct line to our @@ -4272,7 +4234,7 @@ the homes of married officers. Our way led past only the first five or six of them, but a stirring of lace curtains in every one of these told that we were running the gauntlet of hostile glances all the -way. One glowering Frau—though in the semi-negligée +way. One glowering Frau—though in the semi-negligée of a "Made-in-Germany" <i>kimono</i> of pale mauve, her Brunhildian brow was crowned with a "permanently Marcelled" <i>coiffure</i> of the kind one @@ -4281,7 +4243,7 @@ cover, and so stepped out upon her veranda just<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pa in time to see the elder of her blonde-braided offspring in the act of waving a Teddy Bear—or it may have been a woolly lamb or a dachshund—at -the tail of the procession of invading <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Engländers</i>. +the tail of the procession of invading <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Engländers</i>. She was swooping—a mauve-tailed comet with a Gorgon head—on the luckless "fraternisatress" as my brake turned a corner and @@ -4401,13 +4363,13 @@ more and more impressive as we drew nearer, and when the procession finally turned and went clattering down the roadway between one of the pairs, the towering walls to left and right blotted out the -sky like the cliffs of a rocky cañon. Halfway +sky like the cliffs of a rocky cañon. Halfway through this great defile the officers of the station were waiting to receive and conduct us round. A hard, fit, capable-looking lot of chaps they were. Every one of them had at least one decoration, most of them many, and among these were two or -three Orders <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Pour de Mérite</i>, the German V.C. +three Orders <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Pour de Mérite</i>, the German V.C. One at least of them—the great long-distance pilot, Von Butlar—was famous internationally, and few among the senior of them (as I was assured @@ -4806,7 +4768,7 @@ were waiting upon a large sidetable as we entered<span class="pagenum"><a name=" the reception-room, and to these, as fast as a very nervous waiter could bring them in, were added the following: a large loaf of <i>pumpernickel</i>, a -pitcher of chicken <i>consommé</i>, a huge beefsteak, +pitcher of chicken <i>consommé</i>, a huge beefsteak, with a fried egg sitting in the middle of it, for each member of the party, two dishes of apple sauce, and eight bottles of wine—four of white and four @@ -4814,7 +4776,7 @@ of red. The steaks—an inch thick, six inches in diameter, and grilled to a turn—were quite the largest pieces of meat I had seen served outside of Ireland since the war. The <i>hock</i> bore the label -"<i>Dürkheimer</i>," and the other bottles, which were +"<i>Dürkheimer</i>," and the other bottles, which were of non-German origin, "<i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Ungarischer Rotwein</i>."</p> <p>"Although I'd hate to hurt their feelings," said @@ -5454,7 +5416,7 @@ of their Shipping Commission called on Commodore<span class="pagenum"><a name="P Bevan at the hotel to make formal expression of regrets.</p> -<p>There was a refreshing naïveté in the explanation +<p>There was a refreshing naïveté in the explanation offered by one of the German officers of the reason for this little incident. "It was all the fault of the chauffeur," he said. "The man used @@ -5699,7 +5661,7 @@ here from Zeppelins. The vulnerability of the airship to aeroplane attack—and, notably, the destruction of a Zeppelin by a plane launched from the light cruiser <i class="ship">Yarmouth</i>—put an end to -their work in this <i>rôle</i>, and compelled them to +their work in this <i>rôle</i>, and compelled them to confine their activities entirely to reconnaissance.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span> It was the great effectiveness of the long observation flights from Tondern which determined the @@ -5840,12 +5802,12 @@ hours of daylight there if there is no slip up on the Huns' end of the arrangements. We push off in the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i> at seven in the morning, and ought to be at Tondern by three. When we rejoin -her again at Brunsbüttel's another matter."</p> +her again at Brunsbüttel's another matter."</p> <p>Just where the "slip up" was meant to come became evident the next morning, when the German pilot was half an hour late in coming off to -the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i>. As the sixty-mile run to Brunsbüttel +the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i>. As the sixty-mile run to Brunsbüttel was to have been covered at a rate of but fifteen miles an hour, a destroyer capable of doing close to thirty-five had no difficulty in making up the @@ -5857,7 +5819,7 @@ the Kiel Canal, was in plain view from the deck of the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i>, but the delay in sending off the promised tug to take us to the landing, with a further delay in the starting of the waiting special, set -back our departure from Brunsbüttel an hour behind +back our departure from Brunsbüttel an hour behind the time scheduled.</p> <p>As all the trains previously put at the disposal @@ -5872,7 +5834,7 @@ to lose it—both by waits at stations and by slow running between them—our mounting suspicions that the Germans meant to keep us hanging about till after dark seemed to be confirmed. -A protest to the Korvettenkapitän conducting the +A protest to the Korvettenkapitän conducting the party brought only a shrug of the shoulders and the assertion that the bad conditions of the track and the engine made greater speed too dangerous. @@ -5885,7 +5847,7 @@ train which had just passed us was doing at least twice our speed.</p> <p>"Ah! but that train had the good engine," -was the naïve reply. It hardly seemed worth +was the naïve reply. It hardly seemed worth while asking why our special had not also been provided with a "good" engine. Some sort of directions were given to the engineer, however, @@ -6060,7 +6022,7 @@ to Tondern it would have been possible to piece out a fairly accurate picture of how the great raid must have appeared to the Germans stationed there at the time. It will be better, however, to -set down a brief <i>résumé</i> of the connected account +set down a brief <i>résumé</i> of the connected account I heard at Nordholz from Von Butlar, Germany's most famous surviving airship pilot, who had, as will be seen, good reason for remembering what @@ -6245,7 +6207,7 @@ from that moment."</p> few days to various ports and air stations in connection with the inspection being pushed all along the German North Sea coast) were to have -rendezvoused at Brunsbüttel by dark of the 10th, +rendezvoused at Brunsbüttel by dark of the 10th, in order to be ready to start through the Kiel Canal at daybreak the following morning. At the appointed time, however, only the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i>, @@ -6264,7 +6226,7 @@ Bremen and Hamburg, signalled that their work<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page was still uncompleted and that they would have to proceed later to Kiel "on their own."</p> -<p>Returning to Brunsbüttel from the Tondern +<p>Returning to Brunsbüttel from the Tondern visit well along toward midnight, the absence of the <i class="ship">Hercules</i> compelled the four of us who had made that arduous journey in the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i> (the @@ -6306,7 +6268,7 @@ the most of them being gathered in a gesticulative group abreast the latter's bow. The reason for this we saw presently.</p> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 563px;"><img id="i_200" src="images/illo_225.jpg" width="563" height="392" alt="" /><br /><div class="caption">H. M. S. "VICEROY" ENTERING KIEL CANAL LOCK AT BRUNSBÜTTEL</div></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 563px;"><img id="i_200" src="images/illo_225.jpg" width="563" height="392" alt="" /><br /><div class="caption">H. M. S. "VICEROY" ENTERING KIEL CANAL LOCK AT BRUNSBÃœTTEL</div></div> <p>The handling of the British destroyers on this occasion was one of the smartest things of the @@ -6406,7 +6368,7 @@ handed over for internment at Scapa.</p> <p>Although they would be dwarfed beside such great structures as the Pedro Miguel or Gatun -locks of the Panama Canal, the locks at Brunsbüttel +locks of the Panama Canal, the locks at Brunsbüttel are fine solid works, displaying on every hand evidences of the great attention which had been given to providing for their rapid operation @@ -6434,7 +6396,7 @@ of maintenance as the railways were suffering from. As our pilot reported that the revolutionists had spent the night obliterating all the Imperial names—such as <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kaiserstrasse</i> and <i xml:lang="de" lang="de">Kronprintzstrasse</i>—in -Brunsbüttel, one felt safe in assuming +Brunsbüttel, one felt safe in assuming that the gaudy mosaic on the lock wall had been furbished as a decoration, not as a symbol.</p> @@ -6513,7 +6475,7 @@ and towns were encountered that women and children were seen to wave their hands and men to doff their hats and bow. Most of the population, both agricultural and industrial, is found -toward the Kiel rather than the Brunsbüttel end +toward the Kiel rather than the Brunsbüttel end of the canal.</p> <p>At one point we came upon two men and a girl @@ -6541,7 +6503,7 @@ they would be reported and delivered up to justice.</p> <p>Since witnessing this incident I have found myself rather less inclined to dwell in retrospect on that huge, juicy "beefsteak" I had devoured -with such gusto when it was the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">pièce de résistance</i> +with such gusto when it was the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">pièce de résistance</i> on the menu of our luncheon at the Nordholz Zeppelin station a couple of days previously.</p> @@ -6590,7 +6552,7 @@ Germany for some years to come.</p> <p>Our first glimpse of Allied prisoners in their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span> "natural habitat" occurred at a point about -twenty miles inland from Brunsbüttel, where a +twenty miles inland from Brunsbüttel, where a new and very lofty railway viaduct was being thrown across the canal. The extensive groups of huts along the bank in the shadow of the half-completed @@ -6651,7 +6613,7 @@ a few miles further along. The incident—one of the most dramatic of the visit—occurred just after<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span> the <i class="ship">Hercules</i> had passed under the great railway viaduct which crosses the canal almost midway -between Brunsbüttel and Kiel. Wherever practicable, +between Brunsbüttel and Kiel. Wherever practicable, I might explain, all railways have been carried across the canal at a height sufficient to allow even the lofty topmasts of the German warships @@ -6802,7 +6764,7 @@ the speed of ten kilometres an hour to which we were limited—the passage required about ten<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span> hours, exclusive of the time spent in locking in and out. As it was an hour after dawn when we -began the passage at Brunsbüttel, the short winter +began the passage at Brunsbüttel, the short winter day was not long enough to make it possible to reach the other end in daylight. By five o'clock darkness had begun to settle over the waters, and @@ -6825,7 +6787,7 @@ tideless Baltic is only a matter of inches, locking-out was even a more expeditious operation than locking in from the Elbe at the other end. There was just time to note that the "<i class="ship">Kaiser Wilhelm</i>" -mosaic, there as at Brunsbüttel, had been +mosaic, there as at Brunsbüttel, had been scrubbed up bright and clean, when the gates ahead folded inward and the way into the Baltic was open. Half an hour later, after steaming<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span> @@ -6925,7 +6887,7 @@ which came off to the <i class="ship">Hercules</i> at Kiel to discuss arrangements for inspection in the Baltic differed from that at Wilhelmshaven only in a few of the subordinate members. Rear-Admiral Goette continued -to preside, with the tall, blonde Von Müller, +to preside, with the tall, blonde Von Müller, of the first <i>Emden</i>, and the shifty, pasty-faced Hinzmann, of the General Staff at Berlin, as his chief advisers. Commander Lohmann still presided @@ -6988,7 +6950,7 @@ the Allies for the return of vessels seized as prizes; the inability to arrange for special trains and the lack of petrol would make it impossible to reach certain air stations by land, while, so -far as the experiment station at Warnemünde was +far as the experiment station at Warnemünde was concerned, the armistice did not give the Allies the right to visit it at all; as for the Great Belt forts, they were already disarmed, and really not worth @@ -7005,7 +6967,7 @@ anchor. The following day search of the numerous old warships was started, and the day after that word came that the way had even been cleared for the inspection of the great experimental -seaplane station at Warnemünde. For the +seaplane station at Warnemünde. For the first time there was promise that the work of the Commission would be completed within the period of the original armistice.</p> @@ -7016,7 +6978,7 @@ of the original armistice.</p> <h2 class="chap"><a name="IX" id="IX">IX</a><br /> -<span class="subhead">TO WARNEMÜNDE AND RÜGEN</span></h2> +<span class="subhead">TO WARNEMÃœNDE AND RÃœGEN</span></h2> <p>There had been a half-mile or more of visibility when we got under weigh at eight o'clock, but in @@ -7059,7 +7021,7 @@ a sure judgment, the captain fell back on an alternative which would hardly have been open to him with a destroyer less powerfully built and engined than the latest "V's." I have already -told how, in the lock at Brunsbüttel, he had +told how, in the lock at Brunsbüttel, he had stopped his ship dead, just short of the gates, by going astern with the engines at the proper moment. Here, in scarcely more time than it takes @@ -7099,10 +7061,10 @@ forecastle, had sheered off without giving him a shot. What he had said on that occasion was, "Hang the blighter; another chance missed!"</p> -<p>Going aft to breakfast, I was hailed by Korvettenkapitän +<p>Going aft to breakfast, I was hailed by Korvettenkapitän M—— (the officer commanding all Baltic air stations who was accompanying us to -Warnemünde and Rügen), warming himself at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span> +Warnemünde and Rügen), warming himself at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span> the engine-room hatchway, and informed that the ship just sighted was "the famous raider, <i class="ship">Moewe</i>, that has been so many times through the English @@ -7158,7 +7120,7 @@ out of the fog, and an almost normal visibility made it possible for the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i> to increase to her "economic" cruising speed of seventeen knots. The red roofs of the summer hotels along -Warnemünde's waterfront began pushing above +Warnemünde's waterfront began pushing above the horizon a little after noon, and by one we were heading in to where the mouth of a broad canal opened up behind a long stone breakwater. A @@ -7208,7 +7170,7 @@ of, and this difficulty they seemed in a fair way to remedy when I left with the "air" party for the seaplane station.</p> -<p>The great Warnemünde experiment station occupied +<p>The great Warnemünde experiment station occupied the grounds of what appeared to have been some kind of a pre-war industrial or agricultural exposition. Crossing the canal in a launch, a few @@ -7221,7 +7183,7 @@ the officers met us in the roadway in front of the first shed to be inspected. Evidences of the resentment they undoubtedly felt over having to give way in the matter of the visit (it had been -the German contention that Warnemünde, not being +the German contention that Warnemünde, not being a service station, was not liable to inspection<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span> under the terms of the armistice) were not lacking, but as these were mostly confined to scowling @@ -7230,7 +7192,7 @@ work in hand.</p> <p>As the Allied Commission, in the conference of a couple of days previously at Kiel, had insisted on -the visit to Warnemünde on the grounds of satisfying +the visit to Warnemünde on the grounds of satisfying itself that what the Germans claimed was an experiment station was not used for service work, inspection was limited to the comparatively perfunctory @@ -7294,14 +7256,14 @@ by the complete surface command of the North Sea by the British—was undoubtedly responsible for Germany's failure to develop a type of machine which there was little chance of finding -an occasion to use. Even this one at Warnemünde—representing +an occasion to use. Even this one at Warnemünde—representing as it did the latest development of its type—was far from being equal to machines with which the British were practising torpedo-launching a year before the end of the war.</p> -<p>The most imposing exhibit at Warnemünde was +<p>The most imposing exhibit at Warnemünde was a "giant" seaplane rivalling in size the great monoplane flying boat we had seen at Norderney. The two were so different in type that it was @@ -7309,7 +7271,7 @@ difficult to compare them, though it is probable that in engine power—both of them had four engines of from 250 to 300 horse-power each—and in wing area they were about equal. The -Warnemünde machine—which was a biplane, with +Warnemünde machine—which was a biplane, with two pontoons instead of a "boat"—had a somewhat<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span> greater spread of wing, but this must have been compensated for by the vastly greater @@ -7317,7 +7279,7 @@ breadth of those of the monoplane. Superior seaworthiness had been claimed for the latter on account of the greater height of its wings from the water when afloat; but that was <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">ex parte</i> evidence, -and we had no chance to hear what Warnemünde +and we had no chance to hear what Warnemünde had to say in favour of <i>its</i> pet.</p> <p>An incident which occurred in connection with @@ -7390,12 +7352,12 @@ asbestos sheeting which figured so extensively in the great Zeppelin sheds had been very sparingly employed. As this also proved to be the practice in the two large stations we visited -the next day on the island of Rügen, it was +the next day on the island of Rügen, it was assumed that the comparative cheapness of wood in the Baltic had been responsible for the freedom with which it had been employed to save steel and concrete. The inevitable penalty of this inflammable -construction had been paid at Warnemünde, +construction had been paid at Warnemünde, where the tangled masses of wreckage in the ruins of a burned hangar indicated that all the machines it had contained were destroyed with the @@ -7411,8 +7373,8 @@ their hosts. The captain said that he had offered passages back to the <i class="ship">Hercules</i> to any that cared to go, but they had all declined with thanks, saying that they were helping to distribute food for other -prisoners passing through Warnemünde on their -way home <i>viâ</i> Denmark, and that they would not +prisoners passing through Warnemünde on their +way home <i>viâ</i> Denmark, and that they would not return home until this work was finished. We left them without any misgivings save, perhaps, on the score that they seemed rather too tolerant of the @@ -7450,7 +7412,7 @@ up the rain which came drizzling down through the early winter twilight.</p> <p>"Russian prisoners that we now send back to -their homes," explained Korvettenkapitän M—— +their homes," explained Korvettenkapitän M—— as I passed his perch in the hot-air stream from the engine-room hatchway. "They do not like to leave Germany, but we have not now the food for @@ -7484,9 +7446,9 @@ I think they can never be broken."</p> agree with him.</p> <p>A three-hour run at a speed of fifteen knots -brought us to the island of Rügen, where we +brought us to the island of Rügen, where we anchored in shallow water three or four miles off -the station of Büg, which we were scheduled to +the station of Büg, which we were scheduled to inspect in the morning. It was only a fair-weather anchorage, however, and the lee shore, together with a falling barometer and a rising wind, @@ -7498,10 +7460,10 @@ an alteration of plan, for the shores of Tromper<span class="pagenum"><a name="P Bay (where we now had to attempt a landing) were four or five miles from Wiek, the second station to be inspected, and entirely cut off from -communication with Büg by a long lagoon. +communication with Büg by a long lagoon. Under the circumstances, the only practicable plan seemed to be to walk to Wiek across the -island, go from there to Büg by launch, and then +island, go from there to Büg by launch, and then endeavour to rejoin the destroyer at her first anchorage of the night before, to which she would return in the interim. This intricate itinerary @@ -7510,7 +7472,7 @@ killed poor "Hindenburg," the fat German flying officer escorting the party, who had confidently counted on doing all of his travelling by launch.</p> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 567px;"><img id="i_240" src="images/illo_275.jpg" width="567" height="399" alt="" /><br /><div class="caption">BRITISH PRISONERS AND GERMAN SAILORS AT WARNEMÜNDE</div></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 567px;"><img id="i_240" src="images/illo_275.jpg" width="567" height="399" alt="" /><br /><div class="caption">BRITISH PRISONERS AND GERMAN SAILORS AT WARNEMÃœNDE</div></div> <p>The motor launch refusing to start in the morning, the whaler was used to land the inspection @@ -7531,7 +7493,7 @@ going aft and raising the stranded bow. Commander C—— took over the direction of affairs at this juncture, and the incidence of events was such that "Hindy" did not essay the leadership -<i>rôle</i> again for some hours, and even then but +<i>rôle</i> again for some hours, and even then but transiently.</p> <p>The old pier, to the end of which the whaler was @@ -7645,7 +7607,7 @@ riveter I once saw fall to the pavement of Broadway from the fortieth story of the new Singer building looked less inert than the shivering pancake that fat Prussian made when he hit the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span> -beach of Rügen. There was really very little to +beach of Rügen. There was really very little to choose between it and a flatulent jelly-fish slowly dissolving in the embrace of a mass of stranded seaweed a few yards away; indeed, the subtle suggestion @@ -7764,7 +7726,7 @@ only recently come from Zeebrugge, both conjectures seemed to be confirmed.</p> <p>The inspection was over by the time "Hindy" -arrived, and we departed for Büg immediately<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span> +arrived, and we departed for Büg immediately<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span> he had completed the wash-down and brush-up that his brother officers, who treated him with a good deal of deference, insisted on his having. @@ -7775,7 +7737,7 @@ he said it was the hardest walk he had ever taken in his life.</p> <p>A half-hour's run brought the launch alongside -the landing-stage at Büg, which ideally located +the landing-stage at Büg, which ideally located station occupied a quarter of a mile of the narrow spit of sand separating the broad, shallow lagoon we had just crossed from the open Baltic. Concrete @@ -7841,7 +7803,7 @@ signal is made exactly as I have written it."</p> signal, as we saw it later in the <i class="ship">Viceroy</i>, was identical with the original to a T.</p> -<p>It was rather hard luck that Büg, which was the +<p>It was rather hard luck that Büg, which was the first station we visited without carrying our own lunch in the form of sandwiches, was also the only one where we were not offered shelter and refreshment. @@ -7949,7 +7911,7 @@ awaken sympathy in, his sad plight. He took advantage of any kind of a pretext to "tell his troubles," and when nothing occurred in the natural course of events to provide an excuse, he -invented one. Thus, a Korvettenkapitän in one +invented one. Thus, a Korvettenkapitän in one of the ships searched at Wilhelmshaven took advantage of the fact that a man to whom he gave an order about opening a water-tight door in a @@ -8165,7 +8127,7 @@ endeavour to create a false impression.</p> <p>It was in the course of our lengthy and somewhat tedious railway journey to the Zeppelin station -at Nordholz that Korvettenkapitän C—— first +at Nordholz that Korvettenkapitän C—— first alluded to his life in the High Sea Fleet. "I was the gunnery officer of the <i class="ship">Deutschland</i> during the first two years of the war," he volunteered as @@ -8225,7 +8187,7 @@ the war down to the very end—a gunnery battle to a finish. The best proof of that fact is the way the guns were mounted in our capital ships, with four aft and only two forward. That meant that their -<i>rôle</i> was to inflict what damage they could in swift +<i>rôle</i> was to inflict what damage they could in swift attacks, and that they were expected to do their heaviest fighting while being chased back to harbour. Since the British fleet had something like @@ -8591,7 +8553,7 @@ out of control for a while—we did them much damage. The weight of our fire seemed to affect theirs a good deal, though, and at this stage of the fight they did not score many hits upon those -of our ships—it was upon the squadron of <i class="ship">Königs</i> +of our ships—it was upon the squadron of <i class="ship">Königs</i> that they seemed trying to concentrate—that they gave their attention to. Later, when the effort to destroy several of the newly arrived squadron of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</a></span> @@ -8602,7 +8564,7 @@ damage.</p> <p>"The High Sea Fleet's line became considerably broken and extended in the course of the pursuit of the English battle-cruisers and the <i class="ship">Queen -Elizabeths</i>, the swifter <i class="ship">Königs</i> steaming out well +Elizabeths</i>, the swifter <i class="ship">Königs</i> steaming out well in advance in an effort to destroy some of the English ships before their battle fleet came into action, and my own squadron dropping a good @@ -8685,7 +8647,7 @@ of the destroyers by gun-fire, and left two or three<span class="pagenum"><a nam more stopped and looking about to blow up. Two of them were seen to be in collision, and there was also a report that they were firing at each -other in the mêlée, but that was not corroborated. +other in the mêlée, but that was not corroborated. This fight only lasted a few minutes, and we saw no more English ships of any kind on our way back to harbour.</p> @@ -8696,7 +8658,7 @@ were much heavier than ours, even on your own admissions. And since we inflicted those losses with a fleet of not much over half the size of yours, we have always felt justified in claiming the battle -to have been a German victory. The <i class="ship">Lützow</i> was +to have been a German victory. The <i class="ship">Lützow</i> was our only really serious loss, though the other battle-cruisers—especially the <i class="ship">Derfflinger</i> and <i class="ship">Seydlitz</i>—were of little use for many months, so @@ -8706,7 +8668,7 @@ we lost only one modern light cruiser. We may have lost as many destroyers as you did, though yours would have footed up to a greater tonnage, as they average larger than ours. We made a -great mistake in concealing the loss of the <i class="ship">Lützow</i> +great mistake in concealing the loss of the <i class="ship">Lützow</i> for several days, for, after that, the people never stopped thinking that there were other and greater losses not announced.</p> @@ -8743,7 +8705,7 @@ of the Allied Commission was pushed to a rapid completion. The search of the warships was completed in a couple of days, and the decision to limit the inspection of air stations to those west of -Rügen reduced the visits of this character to +Rügen reduced the visits of this character to three, all easily reached by destroyers. Of the town of Kiel, nothing was seen at close quarters, visits in that vicinity being limited to the dockyard, @@ -8961,13 +8923,13 @@ summed up more scathingly than that.</p> a poster found by a member of the Commission in a train by which he was travelling sheds an interesting light on the subject. It was addressed to -the "Youth of Wilhelmshaven and Rüstringen" +the "Youth of Wilhelmshaven and Rüstringen" by the Council of Workmen and Soldiers, and the following is a rough translation.</p> <p>"The German youth has been a witness of the great liberating act of the German Revolution. -It has witnessed how the fetters of the old <i>régime</i> +It has witnessed how the fetters of the old <i>régime</i> were burst and Freedom made her entry into the stronghold of reaction, the Prussian military state. And it is the youth of today which will @@ -9097,7 +9059,7 @@ was under (the effects of which were increasingly noticeable at every succeeding conference), he deported himself with a dignity compatible with his heavy responsibilities. The same may be said of -Captain Von Müller, which is perhaps as far down +Captain Von Müller, which is perhaps as far down the list as it would be charitable to go in this connection.</p> @@ -9125,7 +9087,7 @@ signalized their arrival aboard a few days before<span class="pagenum"><a name=" showed very clearly how a French prisoner would greet a British ship if he knew her nationality.</p> -<p>The <i class="ship">Hercules</i> went into her lock at Brunsbüttel +<p>The <i class="ship">Hercules</i> went into her lock at Brunsbüttel an hour before midnight. The <i class="ship">Regensburg</i>, which had preceded her through the canal, was already in the adjoining lock, and in attempting to pass on @@ -9142,7 +9104,7 @@ came back. "Don't worry about my nose. You ought to see the <i class="ship">Regensburg</i>. I've got a piece of her side-plating on my forecastle!" That was the second time the unlucky <i class="ship">Regensburg</i> had come -to grief in locking through at Brunsbüttel with the +to grief in locking through at Brunsbüttel with the ships of the Allied Naval Commission.</p> <p>Owing to the fog, the Germans were unable, or @@ -9201,382 +9163,6 @@ a comma and closing quote.</p> <p>Page 287: "model cities" was printed as "model cites".</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's To Kiel in the 'Hercules', by Lewis R. 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