Dec. 21.
While the ending of the raiding career of the Admiral Grat Spee hus, naturally enough, attracted the greatest amount of attention in the world press, two other feats of the British Navy have not received all the attention they deserve, for while one of them marks the scrupulous regard which the British have for the international rules governing warfare, the other clearly demonstrates that the same courage and jaly lantry prevails as was noticeable during the last war. The first example is that of the submarine Salmon, which, giving complete heed to the ordinary decencies of submarine warfare, passed up a chance: of sinking the Bremen, because it was impossible for her fo make sure that the crew of the vessel would be able to reach a place of safety, and the other is the feat of the submarine Ursula, which penetrated the mine fields off the German coast, and, in the mouth of the Elbe, accounted for the sinking of the German' cruiser Koeln. Incidentally it may be recorded that the forbearance of the commander of the Salmon was rewarded in part by the opportunity afforded him of tor-pedeing two German cruisers in which the Leipzig was definitely hit, while it is also claimed that two torpedoes struck, almost certainly, a heavy cruiser. The feat performed by the Ursula ranks with those which were performed during the last war by such men as Nasmyth, who penetrated the complicated defences of the Dardanelles, and wrought much havoc upon the Turkish naval forces, a task which was accompanied by all manner of danger, and which neces-ted the most consummate skill. setting
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