Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 111
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[Page 111]
1918
Thu. 7th Dec.[Feb.] (cont.)
The drift is is getting thicker – "Wolf" is occasionally bumping it. In the afternoon we passed a huge field of ice. It looked just like land – flat, frozen, plain-land – a magnificent sight as the sun glinted on to it.
We are pushing up into the Denmark Straits – the straits between Iceland and Greenland – probably in order to elude the southern patrols as we dash across to the Norwegian coast.
When night fell we had settled down in our new hospital – Webbie was playing the piano (playing "So-long Selty") when the news came round that Captain Tominaga had suicided. He was missing, but the Germans had a fear that he had gone down to try and explode one of the magazines and send "Wolf" to join the "Hitachi". He had not – he left letters behind dated last November saying that he would never see Japan again.