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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 16 November 1914, Page 8

What naval warfare moans to the "black squad" imprisoned in the engineroom is described by an engineer of the Laurel, who went through the fight o(T [Heligoland. Writing to his wife, lie says: "It was a terribly anxious time for us, 1 can tell you, as we stayed down there keeping the engines going at top speed in order to cut off the Ocrmans from their fleet. We could hear the awful din around and the scampering of the tars on the deck as they rushed about from point to point, and we knew what was to the fore when we caught odd glimpses of the stretcher-bearers with their ghastly burdens. We heard the shells crashing against the side of the ship and shrieking orerihead as they passed harmlessly into the water, ami we knew that at any moment one might strike us in a vital part and send us below for good. It is ten times harder on the men whose duty is in the engineroom than those on deck taking part in the fighting, for they at least have the excitement of the fight, and if the ship, is struck they have more than a