KIPLING STORIES OF THE SEA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2910, 24 October 1916, Page 5

KIPLING STORIES OF THE SEA

THE "EBLIS" AT JUTLAND.

AUBtralian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, October 22. Mr. Rudyard Kilpling in an articla described the night attack by the destroyers in the Battle of Jutland, particularly the adventures of a destroyer he calls the "Bblis." After torpedoing and sinking a German battleship, she suddenly found herself uajjer the noses, of two enemy cruisers. lne nearer oue altered her course to rani, the Bblis. which also altered her course to avoid the cruiser. Tho two ships rammed each other, and the cruiser left twenty feet of her iide plates on die forecastle of the destroyer. lha Eblis was terribly damaged above and below. Tho bridge was demolished, pinnine: down the commander. The same cruiser fired large shells wto-the Eblis, and several fires started. An enemy; battle-cruiser tried to ram the JiWis at full speed, grazing her stern. Ine commander of the Eblis, not expecting to li--o it out, threw overboard tlie secret hooks, but controUed the oin> breaks of fire. The ongmoers secured steam from three boilers, and tho 01ficors steered from tho engine-room. Thev improvised signalling apparatus,and" by pumping managed to reach port, in thirty-six hours. . ' Mr Kipling records an incident in which three British destroyers we re concerned. A large enemy slim fired a panicky salvo at the first destroyer rendering her .uimai-ageable. Swerving from' side to side, she caused tho .second destroyer' cbmiriiQip -'tp rani-.lior. under the bridge Whi }? they were locked together, the third aestroger.' rammed tho second, cutting off her 6team. .'