Excerpt from The Silent Watchers: England's Navy During the Great War: What It Is and What We Owe to It

Yes, said the naval volunteer, I tried many times, but gave up all attempts as hopeless. I came up here to get first-hand material, and have sacrificed my short battle leave to no pu ose. The more I leazln the more helplessly incapa lo I feel. I can describe the life of a ship, and make you people move and speak like live things. But a battle is too big for me. One might as well try to realise and set on paper the Day of Judgment. All I did was to write a letter to an Old friend, one Copplestone, beseeching him to make clear to the people at home what we really had done. I wrote it three days after the battle. Here it is.

Lieutenant Caesar drew a paper from his pocket and read as follows.

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