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Five months on a German raider
Frederic George Trayes (1871–), 1919
Named on the page for Battle of Cambrai (1917).
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20 November – 7 December 1917
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
CHAPTER VII
admitted, we all managed to do nothing quite comfortably ! We were at liberty to go practically where we liked on board, but we were never able to get far away from the German sailors, who always appeared to be listening to out conversation, no matter where we were. As on the Wolf, they were sometimes caught spying on .us, and listening at the portholes or ventilators of out cabins. We next picked up the Wolf on the afternoon of December I9th, and heard that since we had last seen her she had sunk a French sailing vessel, the Maréchal Davout, loaded with grain for Europe. The Wolf usually sent us over a budget of wireless news when she had been away from us any length of rime. I remember an item of news on one occasion, in which Mr. Lloyd George in a speech said we were getting on the track of the submarines and that we had sunk rive in one day. This gave great mirth to the Germans, who naturally refused to believe it--they said they had lost only a dozen since the war began ! On one occasion the Captain informed us of a " great British victory. Joy- bells are ringing all over England. The British have captured a trench and have advanced ten yards!" This was the victory at Cambrai!
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