World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Submarine
Sir Edward Grey to Mr Page, 15th March, 1915.
Footnote 13:
In the Reichstag Main Committee, 28th April, 1917.
Footnote 14:
Speech in the Reichstag, July 1917.
Footnote 15:
Heard before Mr Justice Hill and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House,
20th March, 1918.
Footnote 16:
Speech delivered in Sheffield, 24th October, 1917. In reviewing the
naval situation in the House of Commons on the 27th November, 1914, Mr
Churchill had remarked that “our power in submarines is much greater
than that of our enemies.”
Footnote 17:
The United States had not then declared war.
Footnote 18:
See _post_, p. 161.
Footnote 19:
21st February, 1917.
Footnote 20:
An Englishman, who started the famous engineering works in Belgium at
Seraing at the early age of twenty-seven.
Footnote 21:
By the English-Speaking Union, 11th October, 1918.
Footnote 22:
See _ante_, pp. 35–38.
Footnote 23:
I have dealt with the loss of the three cruisers and of the
_Formidable_ at much greater length in _Stirring Deeds of Britain’s
Sea-dogs_, pp. 159–174, 292–302.
Footnote 24:
Now Admiral Lord Beresford.
Footnote 25:
Italy was then a neutral.
Footnote 26:
We should call S 126 a destroyer, but the term is unknown in the
German Navy. All vessels of the type are dubbed torpedo-boats,
irrespective of size.
Footnote 27:
See _post_, p. 297.
Footnote 28:
More detailed particulars will be found in my _Daring Deeds of
Merchant Seamen_, p. 221, and _Stirring Deeds of Britain’s Sea-dogs_,
p. 275.
Footnote 29:
Now Captain.
Footnote 30:
These were duly put in commission.
Footnote 31:
See _post_, p. 264.
Footnote 32:
See _ante_, p. 128.
Footnote 33:
_Daring Deeds of Merchant Seamen in the Great War_ (Harrap, 1918).
Footnote 34:
Sir L. Chiozza Money in the House of Commons, 14th November, 1918.
Footnote 35:
Speech at the Grosvenor Galleries, 4th December, 1918.
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