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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 8

A graphic picture of the task of mounting watch and_ ward over the North Sea is painted in the "Navy and Army." The signalman on the bridge points away to something off our port bow. The officer nods; it is our opposite number and her consort whom we have come to relieve. In a few minutes signals aro flying, the latest news is passed, even compliments are exchanged, and we are on the patrol line, while those we have relieved are speeding towards the harbour wo have so recently left. The guns aro manned, for. who knows where an euemy submarine may poke her nose out of the depth, and. the remainder of tho hands go to breakfast. AVe have altered our course, and are now running southward thus, bringing tho wind and sea abeam. The motions of our little craft arc not conducive to comfort, and now and then there conies a roar of laughter from below as the cocoa goes flying deckwards, and a shout of "Now sho's over!" A little later we pass, trawlers al work sweeping for mines, and give thflm a 'cheero' as wa.jia»s-"