A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S REVENGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 244, 9 July 1919, Page 11

A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S REVENGE

ONIE FOR TM GERXIANS.

Speakirtg at a farewel luncheon in tho honour at the American Luncheon Club recently, , . Hr. Frederic William Wile, who represented the "Daily Mail" in Admiral Tyrwhitfs flagship off Harwich, told.how he assisted in taking tho surrender or the German submarine fleet on November 20.

""Admiral Tyrwhitt," said Sir. Wile, invited mo to join him on the Curacoa's bridge at dawn, just as the craven pirates wore floating into British raptivity. After a brace or two had filed past—a wretched spectacle—Tyrwhitt observed that the Huns were not keeping station in accordance with the orders flashed to them by wireless'the night before.

"The Admiral timed to me and asked if I would concoct in German nn imperious commnnd to the pirates to obey orders. I agreed, I need-hardly say, with alacrity. Then, in the adjacent chartroom, composed a message, which was not lacking in tho insolence with which the Prussian ■ language abounds, calling- upon the commander of the U-boats _to tike up forthwith, and maintain, station of a cable ■ length between boats, and three cable lengths between divisions. . "It was not long afterwards when we discerned, through our telescopes, that 'my , ' orders had bten promptly and literally obeyed. So the wounds which tho flats.of Prussian police sabres inflicted upon my head in Berlin on tlio night of August 4, 1914, were salved at last." ■ ■ ' ■