It it were possible to record all the incidents in connection with this war, unrelated to the major aspects of the huge operations which have been and are being carried out, undoubtedly the following story would receive a prominent place As a squadron of British cruisers and destroy ers was sailing home from Norway after landing troops a signal suddenly flashed out "Stay progress: Emergency."
The signal caused momentary excitement, for the vessels were still in dangerous waters.
Then it was revealed that the emergency was—an attack of acute appendicitis suffered by a sailor in one of the warships.
An immediate operation was necessary anc, as the surgeon commander performed it, the other vessels formed, a protective ring round the warship.
For more than an hour the squadron was halted.
Tt was an eventful hour, for a Dornier fying boat appeared and tried to attack It dropped two bombs, one of which burst near a destroyer, but did no damage.
The squadron's guns drove off the raider, the operation ended—and the ships are now safely back home.
There are probably many who would criticize a decision to imperial a whole squadron in dangerous waters for sufficient time to permit of a surgical operation such as mentioned above on a single man, for the benefits to be gained were small as compared with the large amount of war material and numbers of men who were thus placed in risk Yet it is a
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