ONE MORE TOAST-DER TAG!

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2256, 16 September 1914, Page 7

ONE MORE TOAST-DER TAG!

' A SHIPMASTER'S EXPERIENCE. One of the best-known masters in the employ of the Union S.S. Company, who a couple of years ago or thereabouts was in charge of ono of the big colliers, tells a rather good ■ story as to what happened to him and a shipmate when on a visit to German New Guinea (which territory has just been seized in the name of King George by the Australian Expeditionary Force). He had taken a full load of coal up to the German coaling station in the Huon Gulf (which lies to the south-east of the German territory), and there a quick dispatch was given by unloading into a German cruiser on ono side arid a hulk on the other. Whilst the work was proceeding the captain and the chief engineer of the Union Company's steamer were invited into the wardroom of the cruiser. The health of the Kaiser was drunk, and songs were siuig out of pure geniality and love of music. The New Zealand skipper had a very tuneful baritone voice, and when oalled upon for a song by the chief engineer, responded with "A Life on the Ocean Wave." This was so well received that the jocose engineer urged him to 6ing another. "Give 'em something patriotic— they've had a good go at their own songs!" Nothing loth the skipper, of the collier turned up again, this .time bawling out "Britannia Rules the Waves." By tho time he finished the refrain of the'second verse he found a, couple of German marines on either side of him, standing mute, but menacingly, with "fixed bayonets." This brought him up all standing, and he intimated to the Scoteh engineer that it was -about time for them to retire.- They bade a hasty goodnight" to the assembled officers, and were making for the cabin door, followed by tho two marines, when the Commander said: "Before you'go, Ecntlfcjmen. one toast 'Der Tag' (the day)! The toast was solemnly drunk, and the Red Funnel skipper and engineer returned to their own ship to cogitate on the sensitiveness of the German, and to find out what "Der Tag" meant. Now wo all know—so do the Germans! ■,

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