FULL OF BEANS TO BE AT 'EM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5

FULL OF BEANS TO BE AT 'EM.

LIFE ON A DESTROYER. | (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, March 12. An officeT on one of ilh-e Britic'h destroyers in the Eastern Jlsdifcerranean, writing borne, Bare , :— ■ '"Here we haven't aland base of any kind, so we never get ashore. It is neoesßary to keep a- good look-out for drifting mines. The Turks, like the Germans, push them out into the sea -whenever they have -a chance. Three have been picked up by our anchorage. We •have men armed wit!h rifles watching for them all night. It is now blowing a south-westerly gale, with sleet squalls every hour. It k pitch dark, ajid away |on the black horizon we keep seeing the 'gleam of the searchlights. "Each time the ship gets a few degrees j-off her course' she gives" a great' rolf, and a solid Hack wave waellres right over her gun platforrce-and torpedo tubes. At each gun , and tube a man ie on watch, ! .trying to see through the blackness and' j the spray, holding on for "all he ie worth. It's the suspense of waiting and watching that tellß. Still, in 6pite of the trtilv awful weather and the great hardships we are a very happy family. We are full of beans to get at 'em, and ■wouldn't be eteewhiere for worlds." *