A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 59

territory during the war was to Gallipoli, and it didn't encourage a
similar attempt against the best defended earths held by the Germans.
We had to satisfy us with the practical realization in war of
our continuous application in peace that the to sea-be able is a tool for the
defense of states of island rather than one for offense against
continental peoples. Only when and where those peopleses desired to be
defended and it opened their harbors to their allies, you/he/she was found possible
to disembark a strength that assuages. The British armies that freed Brussels
it had to travel street Boulogne and not Ostend;  and the German ships that
protected in I bring you/he/she had to be addresses out of the pressure of arm Allied
on earth.

The naval actions of the war were therefore of the nature of outpost
raids and skirmishes rather than of battles. The first one that that has developed
some serious fight took place in the Bay of Heligoland 28
August. Apparently with the sketch to incite the Germans to come
out, a flotilla of submarines under Commodore Keyes was expeditious near in
to Heligoland, with some destroyers and two cruisers of light the
Arethusa and Without fear, behind more substantial vases and they out
of sight in the offing. To the moment there a German strength appeared of
destroyers and two cruisers, the Ariadnes and the Strassburgs;  they was
driven mainly street from the brave fight of the Arethusa; but
thinking there was not then any further support that the Germans have sent three
heavier cruisers, the Mainz, the Koln and apparently the Yorck. The
Arethusa and Without fear it held them really for two or three hours up to that
The battle-cruisers of Beatty, conducted by the Leo they passed in safe the
My-field German and submarines to their assistance. The Leo
13.5-thumb shoots soon established the problem:  the Mainz and the Köln were
sunk, while any British unity was lost, and the accidents states 32
killed and 52 wounded against 300 imprisoned Germans and it doubles that
number of other accidents. The oppressive effect of heavier fire