ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

VISIT TO JUTLAND FLEET. { i . -SPIRIT OF THE MEN; '""" London, Sept. 10. Mr. Alfred Noyes describes a visit to the battle .-misers which were engaged in the Jutland battle. "The first ship, massive as a fortress, sensitive as a stag, which thrilled me like a trumpet call, was the Canada. Her bluejackets were talking with two Hags to a shij a quarter of a mile away. She was the Australia. A little behind was the New Zealand. I began faintly | tr> understand the source of the true glory of my ".ountry. Next was the Warspite, whose holes were also patched ready for action again. 'She had to fight eight Germans, and really was battered. One hole was about 'the size of a small church window, but the damage was not great. ''The Warrior l * crew considered that the Warspite's intervention saved them, and after the battle a deputation from the Warrior's men went to the Warspite, bearing gifts of cigars and sundry bottles, but were received with a gale of Homeric laughter and told to "Take back, you blighters. We did not try to save you; we were chasing our own damned tail. Our helm was jammed.'" ''The Lion, Tiger, and other ships showed few traces of the fight, but the officers and men were brimming with satisfaction over the result of the Jutland battle." NORWEGIAN VESSEL TORPEDOED. Times Service. . Received Sept. 11, 11.30 p.m. London, Sept. 11. The Norwegian vessel Lindborg has been torpedoed. APOLOGY FOE BREACH OF 1 , NEUTRALITY, Stockholm, Sept. 10. Besides apologising for a submarine attack on a German steamer in Swedish territorial waters, Russia has punished the commander and dismissed him from the sen-ice. '