During the first years of the war our duty had been to patrol the Atlantic—first on the European side, then on the American—on the lookout for enemy raiders and, submarines.
Early in March 1915 there was a strong rumour that all the interned other year.
Secondly, the escape of one interned fleet might encourage another at Lisbon or the Canaries to try the same experiment. We in the Calgarian asked permission to remain watching. Chesapeake Bay, lower down the New York rumour of 30
German ships raising steam was a ruse to entice us away from the Virginia area. Our submission, was not approved.
But note the result. On March 11 the raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, badly needing repairs to boilers and engines after seven months' continuous cruising and raiding, crept quietly into ha#bour while we were away from the Chesapeake.
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