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1915.
on the port bow at a great distance, & rather indistinct. The challenge was signalled to them, but it failed to elicit a response from the strange craft. Hurriedly "action" was sounded, and at last we thought we had caught Fritz. However, we were doomed to disappointment, for the strange craft turned out to be 5 of our own trawlers. The following morning we reached the Firth of Forth. Towards the end of the month we had several Zeppelin alarms, but none of them materialised. On one occasion, a mysterious report was made over the telephone to the Admiral superintending the Forth district ashore, apparently by a foreigner, to beware of trouble that night on the East coast. However, nothing happened, & probably the whole thing was a hoax. About the beginning of November a number of neutral journalists were allowed to come on board the ships in the Firth of Forth. Two were Dutch, some French, American & a few English. None of these was shown very much, but somehow they managed to write quite a lot.
Nov. 7.
The entry of Bulgaria into the war against us made very little difference to the Navy, as there were already many ships at the Dardanelles. However, we were compelled to lose the pre-Dreadnought,