London, Sept. 25.
Evening papers have just been SJissued with five closely printed columns of names of petty officers, non-commissioned officers and men saved from the Aboukir, the Hague and the Cressy. And they are little more than half as numerous as ths dead. Yet great ae wae the shock of the first news of this catastrophe it has caused no lasting depression of our spirits It was not merely the loss of fifteen hundred of our brave fighting men that appalled us at first; it was the feeling that if one, or even five—if there were so many—little submarines could play such havoc with our cruisers, the reliance to be placed on the preponderating strength of our ficer was not so well founded 5 we had fondly believed. Was it not @ mems piece of good fortune that the three' victims wens fourttren-year old cruisers of obsolescent typer Might not a few submarines have just as easily sent
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