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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 225, 10 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

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IXSPOKEX -MESSAGE OF A ISH WARSHIP TO THE SKI Professor Voyslav M. Yon oft he Chair of Literature in versity of Belgrade, shared in of his nation during th< before the Austro-German bore gives this vivid picture of his enves:

Six months :;go I found mv> e l Adriatic coast, after having ma nthers, the painful retreat -Montenegro and Albania. For days we awaited the boat tha tiko us from the little port of zo. Thousands of soldiers, civilians and invalids were en in that region offering so little 1 'ty. ihe Austrian Fleet at t of Cattaro now and again ca suddenly and bombarded the sinking merchant vessels whicl bringing us supplies and which convey us to Brindisi. Enem pianos visited us ererv dav, tl out bombs; submarines were their way among the n.inefielc torpedoed the maritime convo was imperative to leave that l region and escape from famine a demies. Finally, on the 19th < nary, we boarded a httfe Italia without light, like thieves. It w and it was raining. At midnij left in the darkness, aceompank by the wind and the rain; we I the unknown, saying good-bye w gret to those who remained asleep in their glorious eternal that wild country. Three hundr ugeos, officers and wounded sc women and children, were pael that open boat, creaking and \ liko a nutshell on a raging sea night, pressed one against the wo trembled with the cold and at Would the invisible enemy find u did not know. Had wo «ome i friend near at hand to protec against the Austrian pirates? also, we did not know." Sleep not <cme, and we could see noth front of m. Tired and exhaust' awaited the dawn.

And when the dawn broke th the morning mist we. saw th which had been watching us.th© b'o friend who had protected us. was following from afar, reaeh and overtook us. Tt was a Britis pedo-boat joyously flying the •lark. The men of the crew g ns with their coarsv, many-col sailors' handkerchiefs. She ran us twice, as if *hv would say, "B fear; Britain is here." And those haggard faces and sti eyes which followed her, and feeble hands which returned the | mg. were not afraid. Thev knem that the British Fleet was proU us, and they knew also that thi One who is more powerful than British Flo?t. who was also protf US.