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-r "O LOOKY.-LOOKYI" I shouted to thrtjprainr&i wcftiisetf " along, and ran smarts into a whole fleet of battleship. We were wiling in -the Japan Sea. and the captain said t might get a glimpse of real war any ' 'time --------- ------ - . I- " ':" ". it fin a WELL SIR, what d'ye think?' We hadn't any more, than, got within range of thote Russians foe that it what they were when "Boom I Bang I" went their guns, and the shell whizzed end aereamed right by out head.. -- ; v - J-DOWN; BESSIE, down 1" yelled the: tap(amrThewerTI!rTnft"' f eight at us. Now wasn't that awful? Might have killed us and-wok the Bessie B. before they found out who we were. -Cue thej took us for Japanese submarine boat, th? - - - J jej'- 4 WE CLAPPED down the fid and sunk the Bessie B. in a Jiffy, and . -we could still hear their shells dropping past us We avoided one terrible -danger, only to bump into another, for thee was one of those fearful Japa . nese mines right ahead of Vs. Jes' stopped in time, I tell you I Then we got into our diving suits and went out to examine the things that were blowing Russian ships higher than kites. " , f ,;V:;';li:ijf!:';ff''j:'!W? TnT jnTi sKij X :T' ' !lXTriT'T-rT'W",XT''ii'i'iT"'':?;''';7'' ' '" '' f i ' " "' ' :''-"'.i"-f riI ,1,1 1 1 1, mi i n -"-""'rrriviTT; 5 WELL, WHAT NEXT, do you suppose? Another submarine I "Ifessireet A Japanese submarine appeared right before our eyes, and there was a Jap in a diving suit right under the Russian battleship. Just ready to sink her, I'll bet And when they spied us there was great commotion. Took us for Russians, naturally. 8iS:HL - " TTr M " " - " yi....I. f ..cii,C.Au, ' ' 4 : TljaSJSk V-1.1 ' , J': I 6 FI RST THING WE knew, their boat turned her nose toward a " sAd out tame bobbing a big torpedo. Looked for a second at though w . were done for. The torpedo came slowly along ready tq blow the Bessie B. ' Into smithereens. I remembered a story of how a Jap once saved a ship by puH'ng the war-head, or cap, out of a torpedo; so, says I, I'll try kl w,twiiit'i'? -it; rrrtfist , tn lls, 'JhjtR 7 C CT ' 7MEBBE I DIDN'T tut through the water, and grabbed hold ol Mr Torpedo by the head and yanked his nose out, not a second too soon. It )es bumped against the Bessie B. hard enough to put a dent in her. and , then slowly sunk.-Couldn't explode without the cap, you sea. . ( ' ' S THEN WE ROSE to the surface before the lao could 'fire - another Again the Russian ships opened fire on us . We were surely getting ' (t on both sides. But jes' then something we were cxpectint happened. TheVe . was a terrible booming, aid 4 column uf water shot up through th centre . VI VIHIOHIfk f v. " .ft ' 'v ' oSHE ROSE HIGH in the air, crashed in two, and as her mtg. . . ( lnes exploded the came down into the water in a million pieces. We took ; ; . lat opportunity to escape, for it was not long before the other, ships came , " rushing to the mcu and it didn't seem like very healthy place for sub marmc jet' about that time. :,. j . ) ,. .-..J...