"WE MUST WIN."
! BRITISH. POPULAR IN AMERICA ! A Scotsman, formerly engineer on the Commonwealth and Dominion. I.in© of Steamers trading to and from New Zealand, writing to friends in .v.i;'fchu!(>, gives some interesting information. "I am at Home again," he writes, under late of July, 1917, "working ashore on tho new standard ships. Every available man is now sent to the shops to get an with the work of building slnps and engines.. We have to work '.aie Uiree nights per week, and "whiles" aiso turn out on Sundays. ' ; C was in America when war was declared, and, oh, what a change! il'/;y could not do enough for anyone who was British that day. I told some of them that I was a Scot, and that further improved matters for me. I had an exciting time on the oil tank I *vas on 'luring the voyage back from the States. When within some distance from the /rish coast, ships were being sunk wholesale. Wo got through all right, although' ive had to stop and pick up the crew :f a ship vrhich had been sunk two hours before. We then made for another *hip fjhicit was sending up 3.0. K. signal.l forty miles away, and h'ad the salurace it km of escorting; her into an Trtoh porti fihs was pretty well battered' l.v gunfire. I expect the submarine v/sa *-ut of torpedoes, but' wo never. ?aw liter/ We learned afterwards that the submarine ivill not return to Germany." 'I was sis months in tho oil tanker. ;*r.d during that time was ',ll France, 'Portugal, and on the Mediterranean. '(Vo also called at a few places at Home, ii;d was twice to and' from the United States. The list time we "were in America we only stayed eight hours bsforo ctarting on the return voyage. I only !u'.d»about ten houra' leave in r he six months. We are going through hard ■ times, and none of us know when, oui turn will come, but we must win, and ,then wo should Blioot some of our politicians."
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1917, Page 3
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