"I next waited for information through ships, but the _Choising_ did not know anything definite, either. By way of the _Luchs_, the _Koenigsberg_ and _Kormoran_ the reports were uncertain. Besides, according to newspapers at Aden, the Arabs were said to have fought with the English; therein there seemed to be offered an opportunity near at hand to damage the enemy. I therefore sailed with the _Choising_ in the direction of Aden. Lieutenant Cordts of the _Choising_ had heard that the Arabian railway already went almost to Hodeida, near the Perin Strait. The ship's surgeon there, Docounlang, found confirmation of this in Meyer's Traveling Handbook. This railway could not have been taken over by the Englishmen, who always dreamt of it. By doing this they would have further and completely wrought up the Mohammedans by making more difficult the journey to Mecca. Best of all, we thought, 'We'll simply step into the express train and whizz nicely away to the North Sea.' Certainly there would be safe journeying homeward through Arabia. To be sure, we had maps of the Red Sea; but it was the shortest way to the foe whether in Aden or in Germany. "On the 7th of January, 1915, between nine and ten o'clock in the evening, we sneaked through the Strait of Perin. It lay swarming full of Englishmen. We steered along the African coast, close past an English cable layer. That was my greatest delight--how the Englishmen will be vexed when they learn that we passed safely by Perin. On the next evening we saw on the coast a few lights near the water. We thought that must be the pier of Hodeida. But when we measured the distance by night, three thousand meters, I began to think that must be something else. At dawn I made out two masts and four smokestacks; that was an enemy ship and, what is more, an armored French cruiser. I therefore ordered the _Choising_ to put to sea, and to return at night. [Illustration: WAR ZONE AROUND THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE RED CROSS SERVICE . A BRITISH MONITOR . THE DEATH OF A TRAITOR The conning tower and periscope of a submarine whose officers are taking observations on the surface. In the War Zone submarines sank merchantmen and passenger ships] [Illustration: Prayer in a French church which the exigencies of war have converted into a Red Cross hospital] [Illustration: French soldiers bringing up wounded Germans found in captured trenches and putting them in ambulances to be carried to the nearest military hospitals] [Illustration: A Red Cross dog has been hurt while performing invaluable service in seeking out the wounded. Now the dog's own injuries are being carefully dressed] [Illustration: The death of a traitor to France. It was believed that he used the wings of a windmill for signalling information to the Germans] [Illustration: One of the new British monitors bombarding the German base at Ostend, Belgium. The monitor is armed with one powerful 15-inch gun]