her up, saw her
drop nicely across the canal, and left her with her engines still
going, to hold her in position till she should have bedded well down on
the bottom. According to the latest reports from air observation, two
old ships, with their holds full of concrete, are lying across the
canal in a V position, and it is probable that the work they set out to
do has been accomplished and that the canal is effectively blocked. A
motor launch, under Lieutenant P. T. Deane, had followed them in to
bring away the crews and waited further up the canal toward the mouth
against the western bank.

"Lieutenant Bonham Carter, having sent away his boats, was reduced to a
Carley float, an apparatus like an exaggerated life-buoy, with the
floor of a grating. Upon contact with the water it ignited a calcium
flare and he was adrift in the uncanny illumination with a German
machine gun a few hundred yards away giving him its undivided
attention. What saved him was possibly the fact that the defunct
_Intrepid_ still was emitting huge clouds of smoke which it had been
worth nobody's while to turn. He managed to catch a rope, as the motor
launch started, and was towed for a while till he was observed and
taken on board."

A short time after the attack, the Kaiser visited Zeebrugge and gave
out the statement that practically no damage had been done and that the
channel was still clear. But then an Allied airplane flew over the
channel and the mole and secured photographs showing two cruisers sunk
in the channel just as had been planned, and effectively blocking it,
and also a break in the viaduct sixty to one hundred feet in length.
"Only another German lie, this time indorsed by the Kaiser," declared
the British papers. A leading German daily said, however, "It would be
only foolishness to deny that the British naval forces scored a great
success. By a stroke, crazy in its audacity, they penetrated one of
the most important strongholds over which the German flag floats."

THE FLEET THAT LOST ITS SOUL

Sailors and especially fighters on the sea have in all ages possessed
the noblest and bravest of souls and the finest morale. This is why
the British sailors have felt so bitter about the atrocities committed
by the German U-boats. In case a ship is sinking, the members of the
crew do not expect to leave her until all the passengers are in the
lifeboats, and the captain is always the last man to leave. Sometimes
he p