FROM GOLF TO BATTLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 November 1917, Page 4

FROM GOLF TO BATTLE.

MODERN PARALLEL TO THE HISTORIC GAME OF BOWLS AT PLYMOUTH. Rear-Admiral Lionel Halsey, Third Sea Lord, speaking at the meeting of the Hertfordshire Navy League at Lord Salisbury's house in 'Arlingtonstreet on Wednesday, described the thrilling race though the fog of battlecruisers to take part in the Dogger Bank fight. "I had gone ashore for a little game of golf,'' said the admiral, '' and in the afternoon a midshipman came rushing to me with orders to. get under steam. We went back to the ship, and in a short time we had left our base and were under way. There was an awful thick fog and we went full speed through it for some hours. I need hardly say how glad we were to rim out of it, and at seven o'clock next morning we. (sighted the British of destroyers which' had left its base to the south of us and was making full speed towards the spot where we expected to meet the enemy. "Suddenly the flotillas opened fire. The signal went up for "full speed." and away we went. The men down below stoked away like the. heroes they are. At 8.15 we sighted the German ships, about 34,000 yards away, going for all they were worth—unfortunately in the same direction as we were.,;We managed to pick them up bit by bit, and' at 9.15 we had our orders ,to open fire, at a range of somethinglike 21,000 yards. "We cocked our guns up and let fly. The shooting was good, but the trouble was that when we had begun to get the range Ave only had between thirty or forty miles which we could go. The Blucher fell back, and the' guns' caught her nicely and in a very short time she was knocked out of the fight and sunk."