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LAND & WATER 
December 19, 1918 
the gift of word.':. The bond between a seaman and his ship 
IS something outside his conscious control : she may be a 
little hell to him, he may curse her and long for the day when 
he will leave her. But let her get into difficulties and he \vill 
stick up for her in spite of his hate, or does his hate change ? 
Yet we saw the 
Hun come in of 
his own free will, 
with his bag on 
deck packed ready 
for the beach, and 
quietly hand over 
his ship to ■ his 
hated enemy. How 
did they get him 
fb do it? Did 
they spin him some 
yam that it was 
only a pretence 
and that we would 
be forced to give 
them back ? Or 
was it that, as a 
punishment for 
having violated 
every law of the 
chivalry of the sea, 
the sea had spued 
him up and would 
have none of him, 
refused him the 
feelings of seamen : 
that he never had 
been a seaman 
and never would 
be. 
LARGE SUBMARINE BEFORE SURRENDER 
" Never the feller a man'd choose to be with in a watch together 
Never the feller you'd like to know was around in the worst of 
weather. 
Never the chap as you'd want by vour side when caught aback 
in a gale. ' ° 
Or laying aloft in your shirt, maybe, off the Plate there 
shortening sail."* 
They took an extraordinary interest in us and, even in the 
solemn moment of surrender, gaz^ up at us as we passed 
• "Small Craft." C. Fox Smith. 
over. They must have seen us more often than we had 
seen them, but it could only have been a glimpse from a 
distance through a periscope. Now thej' could see us as 
clearly as we could see them, enemies meeting face to face 
in the light of the sun after long years of warfare fought irf 
the dark. 
The naval sur- ,■ 
render of Germany, 
as a whole, is the 
biggest thing in 
history : so far as 
the sea and the. 
command thereof 
is concerned, it is 
victory, final and 
complete- Out of 
it as a whole, the 
surrender of the 
submarines marks 
not only defeat, 
but the total col- 
lapse of a policy 
in which was at- 
tempted a revision 
of the accepted 
laws of the world. 
Not only is the 
Hun beaten, but 
the view which he 
attempted to im- 
pose on the world 
has vanished ; 
those sullen hulls 
lying in British 
harbours mark the disappearance, not only of the German 
from sea control, but also of Germanism from the laws 
and customs of the sea. 
Thus, out of all the events and spectacles that the 
coUapse of Germany has provided, this surrender of the 
submarines takes first place among the symbols of Allied 
victory over the most cruel and most determined enemy 
of civilisation that has come to being in all the history of 
the world. 
SURRENDERED SUBMARINES 
