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♦ COMMAND OF ALSACE.

^HMAN AND BRITISH AIR RAIDS.I

4USSIAN ADVANCE IN HUNGARY.…

------> t q^Rman offensive…

— horus bombardment.

--------. tHE FIGHT AT SUEZ.

8ii<: . RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN…

AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT.

jMOUNTAIN BATTLE.

AIR RAID ON METZ.

I DRESSMAKING AT HOME.

NICE DISHES. :

, RUSSIA'S GREAT CAPTURES.

FATE OF A LITTLE TOWN.

MINE-SWEEPING IN THE STRAITS.

NARROWS PORTS SHELLED.

AT NEUVE CHAPELLE.

DASH FOR SUBMARINE.

FATE OF A RAIDER.

! A PIRATE FROM KIEL.

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A PIRATE FROM KIEL. I was fishing t'other morning From my motor-boat off Deal, And was wond'ring when old Tirpitz With his Navy (?) would leave Kiel Wond'ring what the German people (For it fairly puzzles ME) Can be thinking of a Navy That's afraid to go to sea Yet old Turpentine, the Teuton, Has the bloomin' nerve to say He's blockading British seaports! Well, he's got a curious way Of blockading. Why, for every Vessel sunk by submarine There are hundreds come in daily, By his pirates never seen! I was fishing: t'other morning. I had caught some dozen fishes, And was thinking I would do, When I hears a curious thumping- Sounded like some steamer's -,crew., But I couldn't see one nowhere; Not a vessel was in sight. Why, the sound comes from beneath me I explained. And I was right. Suddenly the surface rippled Where before 'thad been like glass. Then the water bubbled madly, And I saw a mighty Trass Heaving up, quite close 'longside me. What. the dickens chuld it mean? Twas no monster fish I'd sighted; 'Twas a German submarine! 'Twas a German submarine. 'Course, they didn't waste torpedoes On a little craft like mine; Sinking helpless merchant vessels Reckon is more in their line. As I watched her I was thinking Furiously what I should do. Could I capture her, I wondered— Submarine and pirate crew? Single-handed I was helpless, She would be no prize o' mine, And was thinking of vamoosing, When I notices my line. And a happy idea struck me, Why, I almost cheered with joy When I saw, just lying for'ard In my boat, a mooring buoy. I follows close behind. Now the submarine had almost Disappeared1: I didn't wait For a moment, out my line went— Plenty hooks, but little bait. Yes! I'd managed, caught her somewheze- Whereabouts, I didn't care. Then the mooring buoy I fastened To the line—I'd fathoms there. Now I reckon you're a goner," And I follows close behind That small mooring buoy that pointed Where a Navy boat could find Any time a German pirate. Well, we hadn't got past Rye, When I sighted a destroyer. You're the very thing," says I. I signalled a destroyer. And I signals her as follows: I've a pirate here from Kiel, Got her safely hooked when fishing For my breakfast, just off Deal. That's my mooring buoy she's towing Unbeknown she's just below." And they signalled back the message, You're a caution What a go! Well, they captured her at sundown, Captured her and—saved the crew! What's that? Hanging's what they merit? Aye, there's thousands think like you! And that mooring buoy's at home now, To remind me how, off Deal, It assisted in the capture Of a pirate out from Kiel.

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