PHOTOGRAPH THE GERMAN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPH THE GERMAN

THE CAMERA .MEN'S DESTROYER • AT,.THE SURRENDER.' Alcamera.ma'njvho has .-'been. with.the Grand- Elect during the great- surrender . week-..writes.^--'". •. ' . Formally the ; German - Fleet- was token into, custody by about Sail warships- but the-first,imormal'arrest itu's made ty a ■ destroyer loa'ded • with, /photographers. -Her. voyage one of the-queerest pieces of < impudence imaginable, v She went out from Itosyth long .before dawn, far ahead of. the. Grand l''leet,- and at twenty: min--1 ut«s to eight; -being-then 60 or-.90-hiilea' out to ,66a, she caught-the. first gliwpsa of the Germanrships in- theirs last, moments, ofy.freedota. H.Jf ,S. Seymour-was tearing. a.Wng in...the dim light'when 'tho great-battleships loomed over her. "Wp Tall- had. cold feet" said a- camera mah who- was:on- board. '-. "Wo had. not. the .least .notion what they-wouldvdo.' 'We had\ visions, of., a. broadside -from about a hundred guns.- Still.-the thing to do was to ; get the pictures;' Our skipper put the-speed-..up t0."83-.knots, and wo- lore through, the .water to the . Germans and - then- .made a complcto round "of" tho i Gcrriian Fleet.

.. "When it got: light we r were's'o i,e«r the" ships that the"German c'ouid see us plainly; They '-ivere greatly tickled. We saw them ' imitating, the.' kinema operators .'.turning'': imaginary'■ yrheelß. We fusSed round. that German" Fleet for an hour or more, having a topping time and getting the goods before^anybody f "\Ve had a bit'of bad iuckj'-though, an-1 had- to iiictiircs. Uo flighted one'of'Dur' aeroplanes .'that had fallen into the. wateiv course ™ couldnot'letlhe fellows; drowh. ThiV.two aviators' were knee-deep in water wlien. wo rescued them, ■'arid I noted witU!,pr6fcsfiional pride that the observer was; holding his camera'over his head; :They , would have been''under-in- another .ten minutes.'-- When we'liiid' doile vntli the German--Fleet- the; Cardiff' .came along 'and' took' Charge 'tof'-.the show."