little alarm, for, as Germany has no naval bases and only two coaling-stations outside her own waters,[1] such transformed vessels would soon run short of fuel, and, with the English Channel shut against them, would fall a prey to the British cruisers which would be on their track. A similar fate must, in the end, overtake any of Germany's regular cruisers that might happen to be at large on the ocean routes when war was declared, though, for a time, they might cause some loss and a great deal of annoyance to our shippers and insurance companies.
The Soul of a Skip
Having dealt with the ships of the two Fleets under comparison, I come now to the crews, without whose hands, eyes, and intelligence to navigate the hulls, set and
- ↑ At Kamaran I . in the Red Sea and Swakop in the Atlantic, which, in the event of war, would at once be captured.—H. B. H.
one, for which there was neither excuse nor justification."—Morning Post, October 21, 1911.
