A heavy shell had passed clean through the thin steel turrets, and lay peacefully near the gun on the iron plates! Now we learned the secret of our lucky hit—our guns had in reality only a carrying range of 160-100. But the gunners had with infinite pains succeeded in raising the gun several sixteenths of a degree higher, and so it carried 200 to 300 metres farther. Having loaded the breech at its highest angle, the brave gunners and their gallant Battery-commander, Oberleutnant Hasshagen, had quietly stuck to their guns under the heaviest shell-fire, until at last one of the ships came within hitting distance. And the best of it was that it hit the right target! It is a pity that the _Triumph_ ran away so quickly, otherwise she would not have escaped her fate on that day. But, for all that, it overtook her a little later. What we could not achieve was accomplished in the spring of 1915 by our friend Hersing, when he, with his U-boat, sent this same _Triumph_ to the bottom of the sea in the Dardanelles, thus avenging the garrison of Kiao-Chow. We owe him a debt of gratitude for this service. Ties of sincere friendship bound me to the officers and the garrison of Fort Hu-Chuin-Huk. I did not really belong to them, for in the first place my aerodrome lay close to the fort, and, in the second, they regularly watched my start, and, above all, my endeavours to get clear of their guns. And more than once the men stood ready to jump into the sea and to save me, for they thought I was falling into the water with my machine. But as often as I was a guest of the remarkable Commander of the Fort, Kapitänleutnant Kopp, we painted our triumphant return to Germany after the war in the most glowing colours, and had of course decided that I should march in with the garrison of Fort Hu-Chuin-Huk. On the 17th of October, late in the evening, a group of officers assembled on the Coast-commander’s stand and waited in breathless suspense for her commander, Kapitänleutnant Brunner, to run the blockade with his torpedo-boat destroyer S.90.