Ross Gazette 10th December 1914 - Page 8
Ross Gazette 10th December 1914 - Page 8
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| Date | 10/12/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 10th December 1914 |
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Dozen Pints , 6d . Dozen Half - Pints . 1/6 THE ROSS . GAZETTE . CALL RIGHTS RED ] THURSDAY , DECEMBER 10 , 1914 . THE WAR IN THE ALing in great masses . A dingy old brigantine mained on the gallery peering through his the flagship by wireless telegraphy , but risk airship added to the destruction and con- Br . H. G. WELLS Author of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The War of the Worlds " " The Invisible Man , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & c . CHAPTER XX . Dountered . He filled the Smallways soul with passionate dread and antipathy . For a long time Bert sat alone in Kurt'e cabin , doing nothing and not venturing even to open B / 6 the door lest he should be by so much nearer that appalling presence . 1/6 something . He found it at last in the lockel , and held it in his hand ansteadilys.com- es . Then he compared his map " We've changed our direction , " he said , and come into the wind . I can't make it out . We've turned away from New York to the south . Almost as if we were going to take & hand- He continued talking to himself for some time . Day came , wet and windy . The window was bedewedof externally , and they could see nothing through it . It was also very cold , and Bert decided to keep rolled up in his blankets on the locker until the bugle sum moned him to his morning ration . That con- sumed , he went out on the little gallery but he could see nothing but eddying clouds driv- ing headlong by , and the dim outlines of the nearer airships . Only at rare intervals could be get a glimpse of grey sea through the pour ing cloud - drift . Long after the Barbarosas had been swaabove the cloud onhopy at a height of six of lowed up in the twilight and distance be re seven thousand feet , communicating with glasses , and when he came back into his ing no exposure to the artillery below . cabin he was unusually silent and thoughtful CHAPTER XIII . after the German fashion . " to Is le doubtful at what particular time the W the Hermann , and the Germanicus , and each fusion its predecessor had made . The Ameri- can gunfire ceased , except for a few herois shots , but they still steamed on , obstinately unsubdued , bloody , battered , and wrathfully resistent , spitting bullets at the airships and .. elads . But now Bert had but intermittent unmercifully pounded by the German iron- glimpses of them between the nearer bulks o the airships that assailed them . It struck Bert suddenly that the whole the The dressing . He clutched the rail tightly and felt rather giddy . They were now out of sight of land , and over blue water Fising and fall under the British dog rose and plunged amid the broad blue waves the only ship in sight . This is rough game , Smallways , he In the evening it began to blow , and the air- allip to roll like porpoise as it swung aid at last this war is rough game . through the air . Kurt said that several of the Somehow one sees it different after a thing men were sea - sick ; but the motion did not in like that . Many men there were worked to unlucky Americans realised the presence of convenience Bert , whose luck it was to be of make that Barbarossa , and there were men in this new factor in the fight . No account now that mysterious gastric disposition which con it one does not meet the like of them every survives of their experience . We have to im found impression upon Bert . He was quite In the small hours the light awoke him , and brecht played the zither and improvised ; been to battle - strained sailor suddenly battle was receding and growing small and The Prince Karl Albert had made a prostitutes good cailor . He slept well , but day Albrecht - there was man named Al agine as well as we can what it must have glancing upward to discover that huge , the most terrifying person Bert had ever en him . He and we were very close friends , ilent shape overhead , vaster than sy battle rising in the air , steadily and silently , until ship , and trailing now from its hinder quar the impact of the guns no longer smote upon ter big German flag . Presently , as the sky the heart but came to the ear dulled by dis . aleared , more of such ships appeared in the CHAPTER XXII . blue through the dissolving clouds , and tance , until the four silenced ships to eastward were little distant things but wer of guns and Smallways woke the next night to discover more , all disdainfully free those floating , blackened , and smoking rafts the cabin in darkness , draught blowing armour , all flying fast to keep pace with the there fourt Bert now could see only three of through it , and Kurt talking to himself running fight below . of ruin against the sun . But the Bremen had German . He could see him dimly by the From first to last no gun whatever also dropping boats to where the drift window , which he had unserewed and opened fired at the Vaterland , and only a few rifle two boats out ; the Theodore Roosevelt was peering down . That cold , clear , attenuated shots . It was a mere adverse stroke of chance on the big , broad Atlantic waves . light which is not so much light as going of that she had a man killed aboard of her . Nos minute objects struggled , rising and falling The whole of that hurrying tumult darkness , which enats inky Chadows and did she take any direct share in the figh often heralds the dawn in the high air , was until the end . She flew above the doomed Vaterland was no longer following the fight . American Fleet while the Prince by wireless away to the south - eastward , growing smalles on t " What's the row ! " said Bert . telegraphy directed the movements of her and less audible as it passed . One of the air- " Shut up ! " said the lieutenant . Can't consorts . Meanwhile the Vogel - stern and Prensson , each with half a dozen drachen ships lay on the water burning , a remote mon strous fount of flames , and far in the south you hear Into the stillness came the repeated heavy flieger in tow , went full speed ahead and west appeared first one and then three other five miles ahead of the Americans . The Theo their consorts ... then dropped through the clouds , perhaps German ironclade , hurrying in support of quick succession . Gaw ! " said Bert- " guns ! " and was in dore Roosevelt let fly at once with the big stantly at the lieutenant's side . The airship guns in her forward barbette , but the shells was still very high and the sea below was burst far below the Vogel - stern , and forth- masked by a thin veil of clouds . The wind with a dozen single - man drachenflieger were had fallen , and Bert , following Kurt's point swooping down to make their attack . " Fighting The American North Atlantic the dew vanish from the window , and caughting finger , saw dimly through the colourless Bert , craning his neck through the cabin squadron and pretty nearly the whole of our the gleam of sunlight outside . He looked out , veil first a red glow , then a quick red flash , porthole , saw the whole of that incident , that fleet . Our Eiserne Kreuz has had a gruelling and saw once more that sunlit cloud floor he and then at a little distance from it another . first encounter of aeroplane and ironclad . He and is sinking , and their Miles Standish had seen first from the balloon , and the ships ashes , and seconds after , when one had their wide flat wings and square box - shaped she's one of their , biggest has sunk with all of the German air - fleet rising one by one expect them , came the belated heads , their wheeled bodies , and their single ceased to hands . Torpedoes , I suppose . She was a from the white , as fleh might rise and become thud - thud . thud . Kurt spoke in German , man riders , soar down the air like a flight o bigger ship than the Karl der Grosse , but five visible from deep water . He stared for a mo- birds " Gaw ! " he said . One to the right or six years wish we very quickly . ment , and then ran out to the little gallery to A bugle - call rang through the airship . pitched extravagantly , shot steeply up inte see this wonder better . Below was cloudland Kurt sprang to his feet , saying something the air , burst with a loud report , and flamed and storm , a great drift of tumbled weather going hard away to the north - east , and the in an excited tone , still using German , and down into the sea ; another plunged nose forward into the water and seemed to fly to went to , the door . " I say ! What's up ? " cried Bert . " What's pieces as it hit the waves . He saw little thal ? " men on the deck of the Theodore Roosevelt So it came about that he was probably the 8/6 last person on board to hear the news that wireless telegraphy was bringing to the air 1/9 ships in throbs and fragments of a great Baaval battle in progress in mid - Atlantic . or He learnt it at last from Kurt . Kurt came in with a general air of ignoring Bert , but muttering to himself in English nevertheless.Stupendous Bert heard him say . Here ! he said , get of this locker . " And he proceeded to rout out two books and case of maps . He spread them on the folding table , and stood regarding struggled with his English informality and his natural kindliness and talkativeness , and at " They're at it , Smallways , " he said . " At what , sir ? " said Bert , broken and re- spectful . Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , in 1 , 9 , and 8 - gallon jars or 6 - gallon easks . Stone Ginger Beer , in Sorew - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . 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" latitude 30deg . " Here it is , " he said , " lat 50min . N. , longitude 30deg . 50min . W. It's good day off us , anyhow , and they're all going south - west by south full pelt as hard as they can go . We shan't see a bit of it , worse luck ! Not a sniff we shan't get ! " Later in the morning the Vaterland changed altitude , and soared up suddenly in a high , lear sky , going , Kurt said , to a height of nearly thirteen thousand feet . Bert was in his cabin , and chanced to air about him was clear and cold and serene save for the faintest ehill breeze and a rare drifting snow - flake . Throb , throb , throb , throb , went the engines in the stillness . That huge herd of airships rising one after another breaking into an had an effect of strange , portentous monster altogether unfamilias world . CHAPTER XXI . Either there was no news of the naval battle that morning or the Prince kept to aimself : whatever came until past midday . Then the bulletins came with a rush , bulle kins that made the lieutenant wild with " Barbarossa disabled thud of guns , one , two , a pause , then three in The Teutenant stopped for an instant in below , men foreshortened in plan into more the doorway , dark against the light passage . heads and feet , running out preparing to " You stay where you are , Smallways . You shoot at the others . Then the foremost flying keep there and do nothing . We're going into machine was rushing between Bert and the action , " he explained , and vanished . American's deck , and then bang ! came the Bert's heart began to beat rapidly . He thunder of its bomb , flung neatly at the for felt himself poised over the fighting vessels ward barbette , and a thin little crackling , 01 far below . In moment , were they to drop rifle shots in reply . Whack , whack , whack , " Gaw ! " he went the quick - firing guns of the American's like a hawk.striking a bird ? battery , and smash came an answering shell whispered at last , in awestricken tones . from the Fürst Bismarck . Then a second and third flying - machine passed between Ber and the American Ironclad , dropping bombs also , and a fourth , its rider hit by bullet the between shot - torn funnels , reeled down and dashed itself to pieces and ploded Thud ! ... thud ! He discovered far away second ruddy flare flashing back at the first . He perceived some difference on the Vater- and sinking , " he and for which he could not account , and ried . " Gott im Himmel ! Der alte Barba - hen he realised that the engines had slowed He stuck bis to an almost inaudible beat . rossa ! Aber welch ein braver Krieger ! " excitement . 66 [ To be continued . ] ADDRESSES . GAZETTE " drove OFFICE PRINTING WORKS PRINTERS , PUBLISHERS , STATIONERS , ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS , DIE STAMPERS , BOOKSELLERS , NEWSAGENTS , & c . We Supply ACCOUNT BOOKS in all sizes , ruled to any pattern , and bound in various styles . May we quote you for your next Order ! We are willing to face the keenest competition in the country . He walked about the swinging cabin , and head out of the whidow and saw in the bleak blowing them apart . Bert had momentary " GAZETTE " The " Oh , Gord ! " he was parting the water that had swallowed them into two neatly symmetrical waves . For some moments sheer blank horror blinded and her OFFICE HIGH STREET , ROSS . THE GREAT SKIN CURE . Budden's S.R. Skin Ointment . Ross : Mr. A. Porter , M.P.S. , Chemist , Ledbury : Mr. Freeman . Newent : Mr. Whittles . Imediate Cash Advances DO NOT WAIT The naval situation in the North Atlantic at that time was a peculiar one . The United States was by far the stronger of the two Powers upon the sea , but the bulk of the American Fleet was still in the Pacific . It was in the direction of Asia that war had been most feared , for the situation between Asiatic and white had become unusually violent and dangerous , and the Japanese Government had shewn itself quite unprecedentedly difficult . The German attack found half the American strength at Manilla , and what was called the sir the other airships slowed down to a scarcely glimpse of a little black creature jumping lor a time he was wholly German . Second Fleet strung out across the Pacific in from the crumpling frame of the flying - ma- wireless contact between the Asiatic station Then he became English again . Think perceptible motion . A second bugle sounded , was taken up chine , hitting the funnel , and falling limply , and San Francisco . The North Atlantio of it , Smallways ! The old ship we kept so Squadron was the sole American force on her lean and tidy ! All smashed about , and the faintly from ship to ship , Out went the to be instantly caught and driven to nothing- eastern shore ; it was returning from & ron flying about in fragments , and the chaps lights ; the fleet became dim , dark bulks ness by the blaze and rush of the explosion . friendly visit to France and Spain , and was ne knew - Gott - flying about too ! Scaldagainst an intense blue sky that still retained Smash ! came a vast explosion in the for For a long time they ward part of the flagship , and a huge piece pumping oil - fuel from tenders in mid - Atlantic ng water squirting , are , and the smash , an occasional star . -for most of its ships were steamships- smash of the guns ! They amash when you're hung , for an Interminable time it seemed to of metal - work seemed to lift out of her and when the international situation became near Like everything bursting to pieces ! him , and then began the sound of air being dump itself into the sea , dropping men and For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS cute . It was made up of four battleships and Wool won't stop it - nothing ! And me up pumped into the balloonette , and slowly , leaving a gap into which a prompt drachen- he armoured cruisers , ranking almost with here so near and so far ! Der alte Barbe lowly the Vaterland cank down towards the lieger planted a flaring bomb . And then for an instant Bert perceived only too clearly in clouds . battleships , not one of which was of a later date than 1918. The Americans had , indeed , " Any other ships ? " asked Smallways pre- the rest of the fleet was following them ; the minute , He craned his neck , but he could not see if the growing , pitiless light a number of convulsively active animalcule grown so accustomed to the idea that Great tently . Britain could be trusted to keep the peace " of " Gott ! Yes ! We've lost the Karl der overhang of the gas - chambers intervened . scorched and struggling in the Theodore It will Oure Itching after one application ; the Atlantic that a naval attack on the Grosse , our best and biggest . Bun down in There was something that stirred his imagi- Roosevelt's foaming wake . What were they ? destroys every form of Eczema heals old Eastern seaboard found them unprepared the night by a British liner that blundered nation deeply in that stealthy , noiseless descent . Not men surely not men ? Those drowning , Wounds and Sores : acts like a charm on Bad Legs ; is infallible for Piles ; Prevents The obscurity deepened for a time , the last mangled little creatures tore with their clutch- Cuts from Festering ; will cure Ringworm in even in their imaginations . But long before into the fighting - in trying to blunder out . the declaration of war - indeed , on Whit They're fighting in a gale . The liner's afloat fading star on the horizon vanished , and he ing fingers at Bert's soul . a few days ; removes the most obstinate Eruptions and Scurvy . Boxes , 7d . and battles , whole German Fleet of eighteen with her nose broken , sagging about ! There felt the cold presence of cloud . Then sud- looked again , ord " almost whimpering . He with a flotilla of fuel tenders and never was such 1s . 10d .. Agents for- a battle never before ! denly the glow beneath assumed distinct out and they had gone , and the converted liners containing stores , to be used Good ships and good men on both sides and lines , became flames , and the Vaterland black stem of the Andrew Jackson , a little in support of the air - fleet , had passed through storm and the night and the dawn and all ceased to descend and hung observant , and it disfigured by the sinking Bremen's last shot , the Straits of Dover and headed boldly for in the open ocean full steam ahead ! No stab would seem unobserved just beneath a drift New York . Not only did these German bing ! No submarines ! Guns and shooting ! ing stratum of cloud thousand feet , per- battleships outnumber the Americans two to Half our ships we don't hear of any more , be- haps , over the battle below . one , but they were more heavily armed and cause their masts are shot sway . Latitude , In the night the struggling naval battle Bert to the destruction below . Then with an immense rushing sound , bear- more modern in construction - at least seven 80deg . 38min . N. - longitude , 40deg . 31min . and retreat had entered upon a new phasing , as it were , a straggling volley of crash- of them having high explosive engines built W.where's that ? " . The Americans had drawn together the ending minor explosions on its back , the Susque of Charlottenburg steel , and all carrying He routed out his map again , and stared at of the flying line skilfully and dexterously , Charlottenburg steel guns . It with eyes that did not see , until at last it was a column , and well to the anna , three miles and more now to the east , blew up and vanished abruptly in a boiling , The fleets came into contact on Wednesday Der alte Barbarossa ! I can't get it out south of the lax sweeping pursuit of the Ger- steaming welter . For a moment nothing was before any actual declaration of war . The of my head - with shells in her engine - room , mans . Then in the darkness before the dawn to be seen but tumbled water , and then there THE LONDON AND PROVINCES Americans had strung out in the modern and the fires flying out of her furnaces , and they had come about and steamed northward came belching up from below , with immense fashion at distances of thirty miles or so , and the stokers and engineers scalded and dead . in close order with the idea of passing through gulping noises , eructations of steam and air DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , were steaming to keep themselves between Men I've messed with , Smallways - men I've the German battle - line and falling upon the and petrol and fragments of canvas the Ghermans and either the Eastern talked to close ! And they've had their day flotilla that was making for New York in sup woodwork and men . pre - eminently the leading establishment of States or Panama ; because , vital as it at last ! And it wasn't all luck for them ! its kind in the kingdom - lends large sums of port of the German air - fleet . Much had That made a distinct pause in the fight . It was to defend the seaboard cities , and " Disabled and sinking ! I suppose every - ltered since the first contact of the fleets . seemed a long pause to Bert . He found him- money daily to all classes . Among the ad- particularly New York , it was still more vital body can't have all the luck in a battle . Poor By this time the American Admiral , O'Con- self looking for the drachenflieger . The flat- vantages offered by the Company , the follow- Smallbrook , ROSS , to save the canal from any attack that might old Schneider I bet he gave ' em something nor , was fully informed of the existence oftened ruin of one was floating abeam of the ing deserve attention : No preliminary prevent the return of the main fleet from the back be the airships , and he was no longer vitally Monitor , the rest hall passed , dropping charges whatever ; the despatch with which Pacific . No doubt , said Kurt , this was now So it was the news of the battle came filter- concerned for Panama , since the submarine bombs down the American column ; several advances are completed ; the low rates of making records across that ocean , " unless ing through to them all that morning . The flotilla was reported arrived there from Key were in the water and apparently uninjured , interest charged ; the system of small repay- PLUMBERS , HOT & COLD WATER FITTERS , GASFITTERShe Japanese , have had the same ides as the Americans had lost a second ship , name un- West , and the Delaware and Abraham Lin- and three or four were fill in the air and ments extending over a period . --Address all Germans . " It was obviously beyond human known ; the Hermann had been damaged in coln , two powerful and entirely modern ships , coming round now in a wide circle to return applications ( in the strictest confidence ) to possibility that the American North Atlantia covering the Barbarossa .. Kurt fretted were already at Rio Grande , on the Pacific to their mother airships . The American iron- The Manager , W. SHIRLEY , 48 , STOKES Fleet could hope to meet and defeat the Ger- like an imprisoned animal about the airship , side of the canal . His manoeuvre was , how clads were no longer in column formation ; CROFT , BRISTOL ; or to local agent , Mr. man ; but , on the other hand , with luck it now going up to the forward gallery under ever , delayed by a boiler explosion on board the Theodore Roosevelt , badly damaged , had GURNEY , 101 , East Street , Hereford . might fight a delaying action and inflict such the eagle , now down into the swinging gal- the Susquehanna , and dawn found this ship turned to the south - east , and the Andrew damage as to weaken greatly the attack upon lery ,, now poring over his maps . He infected in sight of and , indeed , so close to the Bre Jackson , greatly battered but uninjured in the coast defences . Its duty , indeed , was Smallways with a sense of the immediacy of men and Weimar that they instantly en- any fighting part , was passing between victory but devotion , the severest task in the this battle that was going on just over the gaged . There was no alternative to her and the still fresh and vigorous Fürst Bis- world . Meanwhile the submarine defences of curve of the earth . But when Bert went down abandonment but a fleet engagement . O'Con marck to intercept and meet the latter's fire . New York , Panama , and the other more vital to the gallery the world was empty and still , or chose the latter course . It was by no Away to the west the Hermann and the Ger- points could be put in some sort of order . a clear inky - blue sky above and a rippled veil means a hopeless fight . Germans , manicus had appeared and were coming into This was the naval situation , and until of still , thin sunlit cirrus below , through though much more numerous and powerful action . Wednesday in Whit - week it was the only which one saw a racing drift of rain - cloud , than the Americans , were in a dispersed line In the pause after the Susquehanna's dis- situation the American people had realised . and never a glimpse of sea . Throb , throb , measuring nearly forty - five miles from end aster Bert became aware of a trivial sound It was then they heard for the first time of throb , throb , went the engines , and the long , to end , and there were many chances that be liko the noise of an ill - greased , ill - hung door the real scale of the Dornhof seronautic undulating wedge of airships hurried after fore they could gather in for the fight the that falls ajar - the sound of the men in the park , and the possibility of an attack coming the flagship like a flight of swans after their column of seven Americans would have ripped First Bismarck cheering . upon them not only by sea , but by the air leader . Save for the quiver of the engines it them from end to end . was e And in that pause in the uproar , too , the But it is curious that so discredited were the was as noiseless as a dream . And down The day broke dim and overcast , and sun rose , the dark waters became luminously newspapers of that period , that a large there , somewhere in the wind and rain , guns neither the Bremen nor , the Weimar realised blue , and a torrent of golden light irradiated majority of New Yorkers , for example , did roared , shells crashed home , and , after the they had to deal with more than the Susque the world . It came like a sudden smile in a not believe the most copious and circum old manner of warfare , men toiled and died . hanna until the whole column drew out from scene of hate and terror . The cloud veil stantial accounts of the German air - fleet until As the afternoon wore on the lower behind her at a distance of a mile or less and had vanished as if by magic , and the whole it was actually in sight of New York . weather abated , and the sea became interbore down on them . This was the position immensity of the German air - fleet was re- Kurt's talk was half soliloquy . He stood mittently visible again . The air - fleet dropped of affairs when the Vaterland appeared in the vealed in the sky ; the air - fleet stooping now with a map on Mercator's projection before slowly to the middle air , and towards sunset sky The red glow Bert had seen through upon its prey . him , swaying , to the swaying of the ship and they had a glimpse of the disabled Barba the column of clouds came from the luckless Whack - bang , whack - bang , " the guns re- talking of guns and tonnage , of ships and rossa far away to the east . Smallways heard Busquehanna she lay almost immediately sumed , but ironclads were not built to fight their build and powers of speed , of strategi men hurrying along the passage , and was below , burning fore and aft , but still fighting the zenith , and the only hits the Americans points and bases of operation . A certain shy drawn out to the gallery where he found two of her guns and ateaming plowly south - scored were a few lucky chances in nese that reduced him to the status of nearly a dozen officers collected and seruti ward . The Bremen and the Weimar , both rally ineffectual rifle fire . Their column was listener at the officers ' table no longer nising the helpless ruins of the battleship hit in several places , were going west by now badly broken , the Susquehanna had silenced him . through field - glasses . Two other vessels stood south and away from her . The Americas gone , the Theodore Roosevelt had fallen Bert stood by , saying very little , but watch by her , one an exhausted , petrol tank , very Fleet , headed by the Theodore Roosevelt , astern out of the line , with her forward guns ing Kurt's finger on the map . " They've been high out of the water , and the other con was erossing behind them , pounding them in disabled , in a heap of wreckage , and the saying things like this in the papers for a long verted liner . Kurt was at the end of the gal succession , steaming in between them and the Monitor was in some grave trouble . time , he remarked . " Fancy it coming reall Kurt had a detailed knowledge of the Miles lery , a little apart from the others . Gott ! " he said at last , lowering his big modern Fürst Bismarck , which was com two had ceased fire altogether , and so had Standish . She used to be a crack ship for binocular , it is like seeing an old friend the names of all these ships were unknown lying within shot of each other in an involun- gunnery - held the record . I wonder if we with his nose out off - waiting to be finished . and for a considerable time , indeed , misled tary truce and with their respective flags still by the direction in which the combatants displayed . Only four American ships now , I wonder which of our ships beat her . Maybe with a sudden impulse he handed his glass were moving , he imagined the Germans to be with the Andrew Jackson leading , kept to she got a shell in her engines . It's running to Bert , who had peered beneath his hands , Americans and the Americans Germans . He the south - easterly course . And the Fürst fight ! I wonder what the Barbarosne ignored by everyone , seeing the three ships saw what appeared to him to be a column of Bismarck , the Hermann , and the Germanicus doing , " he went on . " She's my old ship merely as three brown - black lines upon the sea six battleships pursuing three others , who steamed parallel to them and drew ahead , of Not a first - rater , but good stuff . I bet she's Never had Bert seen the like of that magni were supported by a newcomer , until the fact them , fighting heavily . The Vaterland rose got shot or two home by now if old fed slightly hasy image before . It was not that the Bremen and Weimar were firing slowly in the air in preparation for the con- Bohneider's up to form . Just think of it simply battered ironclad that wallowed into the Susquehanna upset his calculations . eluding act of the drama . There they are whacking away at each other , helpless , it was a mangled ironclad . It Then for a time he was hopelessly at a loss . Then falling into place one behind the great guns going , shells exploding , magazines seemed wonderful she still floated . Her The noise of the guns , too , confused him , other , a string of a dozen airships dropped bursting , ironwork flying about like straw in powerful engines had been her ruin . In the they no longer seemed to boom ; they went with unhurrying swiftness down the air in They kept a gale , all we've been dreaming of for years ! long chase of the night she had got out of whack , whack , whack , whack , and each faint pursuit of the American Fleet . I suppose we shall fly right away to New line with her consorts , and nipped in be flash made his heart jump in anticipation of at a height of two thousand feet or more York just as though it wasn't anything at all . tween the Susquehanna and the Kansas City . the instant impact . He saw these ironclads , until they were over and a little in advance I suppose we shall reckon we aren't wanted They discovered her proximity , dropped back too , not in profile , as he was accustomed to of the rearmost ironclad , and then stooped down there . It's no more than a covering until she was nearly broadside on to the see ironclads in pictures , but in plan and swiftly down into a fountain of bullets , and fight on our side . All those tenders and store former battleship , and signalled up the curiously foreshortened . For the most part going just a little faster than the ahip below , ships of ours are going on south - west by west Theodore Roosevelt and the little Monitor . they presented empty decks , but here and pelted her thinly - protected decks with bombs to New York to make a floating depot for us . As dawn brake she had found herself hostess there little knots of men sheltered behind until they became sheets of detonating flame . Beet " He dabbed his forehead on the map . of a circle . The fight had not lasted five steel bulwarks . The long , agitated noses of Bo the airships passed one after the other " Here we are Our train of stores goes minutes before the appearance of the Her their big guns jetting thin transparent flashes along the American column as it sought to there , our battleships elbow the Americans mann to the east , and immediately after the and the broadside activity of the quick - firer keep un its fight with the Fürst Bismarck , out of the way there . Fürst Bismarck in the west , forced the were the chief facts in this bird's - eye view , When Bert went down to the men's mess- Americans to leave her , but in that time they The Americans , being steam turbide ships , had room to get his evening ration , hardly anyone had smashed her iron to rags . They had from tvo to four big blast funnels each ; the took notice of him , except just to point him vented the accumulated tensions of their Germans lay lower in the water , having ex out for an instant . Everyone was talking of hard day's retreat upon her . As Bert san plosive engines which now for some reason the battle , auggesting , contradicting at her , she seemed a mere metal - worker's fan made an unwonted muttering roar . Because times , until the petty officers hushed them , it tasy of frozen metal writhings . He could not of their steam propulsion , the American ships rose to a great uproar . 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