SILENT SAILORS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 8

SILENT SAILORS.

ADVENTURES OF NEW ZEALANDERS. i [Special To The -an.] WELLINGTON, Ocl.iln-! 2. The naval n:cn who arrived in Wellington this morning < i leave from the New Zealand cruisers Philomel and Pyramus have many stories that they could tell. But their instructions are not to talk ah.>ut their adventures ol the last two years, and for the most pari they are obeying something of perilous cruisings and queer happenings in out-of-the-way corners of the world, their words are not intended for the ears of Pressmen, and it would he ungenerous to repeat them in print. 80l when the war is over and sailors ami soldiers are \'rec to tell of many naval • cessions, the men of the Philomel and Pyranius will he aide to spin yarns thai will make New ZealandcrS very proud of the two cruisers. The\ arc not modern ships. They cannot take places in any line of battle, or even range themselves with the swill scouts that are Ihe eves and ens of the battle ileels. Yet lhe\ have seen more real adventure than can be counted to the lot of some of Admiral .lellicoe's super-dreadnoughts.