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"My son.... My only son was blown to a thousand atoms by the torpedoing of the Californian!" These words made the spy change expression. His lips separated, emitting a slight exclamation of surprise. "Ah!..." The arrogant light in his pupils faded away. Then he lowered his eyes and soon after hung his head.
For instance, there arose in his intelligence an obstinate doubt as to whether the torpedoing without warning of a liner carrying women and children at the commencement of the war had been quite within the pale of legitimate Naval warfare.
"When in Bilboa I learned of the torpedoing of the Californian and of the death of your son.... I shall not talk about that; I wept, I wept bitterly, hiding myself from the doctor. From that time on I hated her. She rejoiced in the event, passing indifferently over your name.
And I like to think that while Germany went wild over the torpedoing of the Lusitania, even dared to celebrate it in America, while the Zeppelin raids arouse her patriotic enthusiasm, the French gloat over the story of the private who crawled out of the trench and hunted for two days without food or water for his wounded officer.
On October 26, 1917, on the receipt of the news of the torpedoing of another Brazilian ship by a German submarine, a resolution recognizing "the state of war initiated by the German Empire against Brazil" was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Brazilian Senate and by a vote of 149 to 1 in the Chamber of Deputies.
He was afraid if the war lasted much longer he might forget the gentle art! We rose to the occasion and were only too delighted, and from then onwards he became a regular institution up at the Convoy. News was brought to us of the torpedoing of the "Sussex," and the terrible suffering the crew and passengers endured.
The Admiral, who regards soldiers as wayward water babes, has insisted on lashing a merchantman to each side of the Arcadian to serve as torpedo buffers. There are, it seems, at least two German submarines prowling about at the present moment between Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles. After torpedoing the Triumph the same submarine fired at and missed the Vengeance.
By gracious, no! That would make an automobile out of this old tub on wheels, and, until Mr. Pollard gets whole again, anyway, we've had enough of automobiles. One of our crowd in hospital, at a time, is plenty!" Then there came a moment in which the cab stopped so suddenly that the young skipper was all but thrown from his seat. "Gracious!" uttered the submarine boy. "Who's torpedoing us?"
These were the Eagle Point, the Manchester Engineer, the Englishman, and the Sussex. All were sunk except the last-named vessel, and the Americans were saved except one on the Englishman, though not, in several cases, without injury. The circumstances of the torpedoing of the Sussex provoked a final clash between the United States and Germany.
Under these conditions the submersible commander is more or less forced to a policy of lying ambushed to surprise his enemy. It is said that the "Lusitania" was decoyed into a nest of submersibles. There was but little chance of torpedoing her in any other way.
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