AN INSULT AVENGED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 10 March 1915, Page 5

AN INSULT AVENGED.

MIMIC BATTLE ON PACIFIC COAST.

A good story of the manner in whi"h a party of merchant seamen belonging to Allied ships repaid an ofl'ensive G;rman skipper for insulting the flags of thou- respective countries is . told by the Cardiff correspondent of the Daily lelegraph. At a small port on the I acme coast of South America were moored four steamers, British, French, Russian and German. One day there came news of the German naval victory oil the Chilian coast, in which the Good iiope and Monmouth were lost. The German crew pave pantomimic evidences of delight. Presently the captain became grossly offensive.' Ho produced the English, French and Russian nags, laid them on his gangway, and ingted the shore people to walk over them. He himself leant over the rail with gloating linen, and spat upon the signals began to pass between the other ships and, after awhile, a boatload of men from each of''them set off towards fi'T" \ CS S >1 Tho Britisl > Rot then, fiist, and the fun on the German deck was fast and furious. 1 am happy to say," observes the young Cardiff officer who sends the story lvome, that I got one in on the German captains nose, but our skipper, who was following up behind, landed him a glorious right-hander on the. point, and down that teuton captain went for a count that was a long way over ten." Worst*! in the combat, the Germans complained to the police, and next day every man in the raiding crews was'fined a sum equivalent to 18s. "It was the cheapest bit of fun 1 over had at the price," says the Cardiff officer.