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"COMING EVENTS..." "QUITE right for once, Moke. Young brothers are unmitigated nuisances," declared Hugh Holcombe. "If I hadn't been such a silly owl to let my young bro…
THE DANGER SIGNAL A LONG and crowded train stood in Poldene Station prior to setting out upon the last stages of its journey from London to the Trecurnow Naval Base. It was late in the autumn of 1917…
THE OBER-LEUTNANT'S JAUNT MIDNIGHT, somewhere off the North Cornish coast. To be more accurate, the position was, according to observations made by Ober-leutnant Otto von Loringhoven commanding …
FOILED ERNST VON GOBENDORFF was up betimes. A forty or fifty miles' railway journey was before him. Until he was within a short distance of Poldene Station he did not consider it prudent to assu…
THE PURSUIT "TALLY-HO!" shouted Sub-Lieutenant Farrar, as the party of bluejackets, headed by the four officers, raced along the permanent way, followed by a running fire of chaff and caust…
VON LORINGHOVEN LEARNS NEWS AT a quarter to six Ober-Leutnant Otto von Loringhoven strolled into the lounge of the Imperial Hotel and, ringing for the waiter, booked two seats at a table for dinner. …
BRUNO'S ESCAPADE AT eight o'clock on the following Thursday morning H.M.S. "Tantalus" cast off from her moorings in Trecurnow Roads and stood down Channel. She was an armoured cru…
TORPEDOED IT was some moments before Sub-Lieutenant Farrar realised the disconcerting fact that the cruiser had been torpedoed. He was dimly conscious of a rush of feet overhead and a confused scramb…
THE SKIPPER OF THE "GUIDING STAR" U 254 arrived at the position indicated by her kapitan-leutnant nearly forty-eight hours before H.M.S. "Tantalus" sailed from Trecurnow Roads. Du…
THE BLIMP TO THE RESCUE "YOU'RE wanted on the 'phone, sir. Senior Officer Trecurnow Base is speaking." Flight-Lieutenant Barcroft, V.C., was coming away from the airship sheds whe…
