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No fleet of ships can be put beyond all danger of submarine attack, but the danger to the subs can be made so great that it won't be worth the price the attacking force will pay. I do not know how many U-boats were in that attack. The official figures will no doubt be given out in time. Our moderate estimators here put it down as three, with one transport ramming and sinking one U-boat.
I caught the mail train from Euston that night, got away with the papers and took them where I always meant to to my old home on the west coast of Ireland. There, whilst I was waiting to keep an appointment with a German U-boat, I found out what happens to a man who has sworn an oath that he will never again look inside an English newspaper, and been obstinate enough to keep his word."
For myself that time the fleet steamed in direct column ahead, one ship jam up behind another, in a rough sea and on a black night, at high speed without lights of any kind, they did a more difficult thing than to evade or stand off half a dozen U-boat attacks.
In this case, too, I had to say, we shall achieve something by means of it. And that is why in my conversation with Count Bernstorff, I did not reveal my inmost feelings on the subject there was no need for me to do so but simply referred to the reasons which could be adduced in favor of the U-boat war." The reception which I was given in Berlin, certainly at first left nothing to be desired.
She had moved up close to the schooner before showing her teeth. Then she dropped two shells near the Hattie May to show the skipper that she had the range of his schooner. He had to surrender, and the U-boat moved up and gave him and his crew ten minutes to get into the boats.
This adventure had to do with the blowing up of a bridge, and Jimmy Blaise had a fight with a spy a fight that came near being Jimmy's last. In this second book will also be found an account of the trip of the Khaki Boys to the coast, where they boarded a transport for France. If they expected to get across safely, as many thousands did, they were disappointed, for they were attacked by a U-Boat.
All at once the crew heard a shout from the conning tower. "There she is!" yelled Lieutenant McClure, as he stood with his eyes glued to the periscope glass. "U-boat driving straight ahead at the smoke curtain. Port the helm!" he commanded. The Dewey came around sharp and, in response to the guidance of her commander, began to ascend.
Meanwhile I urgently beg leave, to submit the following remarks for your consideration. If the U-boat campaign is opened now without any further ado, the President will regard this as a smack in the face, and war with the United States will be inevitable.
Au revoir, in true friendship, your Tisza was strongly opposed to the U-boat warfare, and only tolerated it from reasons of vis major, because we could not prevent the German military leaders from adopting the measure, and because he, and I too, were convinced that "not joining in" would have been of no advantage to us.
But Germany was free from all responsibility for the sad occurrence. The following amazing reason was given by the Imperial German Government. This certain U-boat had fired this certain torpedo at a British war-vessel somewhere in the North Sea ten days before the Tubantia was sunk. The shot missed its mark.
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