NAVAL STORIES.
TO TUB EDITOR or "TRF T.RESS." Si ri —Your correspondent "ExNaval Officer" says "The idc-u of Captain Haddock keeping the Olympic in Lough Swilly for tix days is too funny for contemplation." My sister-in-law, in a letter received by tne last English mail, says:—'l left New York on October 21st, in the Olympic, and had quite an exciting voyage, &s wo lav into a field of mines on tho north coast of Ireland, rescued the crow of a Vessel which had been crippled by a mine, and put into Lough Swifiy. where wo were detained almost a week, "durinji which time wo were not allowed to send any news to our friends on shore. The English papers admitted that we had a miraculous escape, as eighty mines were picked up while we were in the harbour." Site says mitbing, hounver, about the.Audacious. Tho 'Atlantic boats have been using Liverpool, as Southampton has bacu reserved for the troops going to France, though I believe it was re-opened for n Jew days. 1 enclose my name, hut sign myself, —Yours, etc.. SOUTH CANTERBURY. January Sth.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15172, 9 January 1915, Page 9
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