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May 12th Fourteen Transport steamers left here (Gaba Tepe) this morning & 6 tonight. Do not know where they are bound for. We are sending some letters down to Port Said with a water ship that is going there for supplies. We got word at 6 p.m. to be ready to proceed at any time tonight. It was a confidential report to the Master from the Admiralty as a precaution. We understand that there are German submarines around in the Midetteranean or Aegaen Seas, hence we may have to get somewhere more safe. The Queen Elizabeth just passed by & she looked fine. It was an amusing sight in some senses as she went by. She looked a huge, powerful monster & trailing about 200 yards astern of her was a small Destroyer which looked like a pup following its parent. Everywhere she goes this Destroyer follows.
There is a terrific bombardment going on at Cape Helies now & one can see shrapnel everywhere. The pictures hung in my room are shaking the whole time & we are six miles north of them.
Presume the Turks are getting driven down this way, so that our Troops can join up & cut them off. Got some English papers today dated April 18th & nearly everything in it was new to us. We were quite surprised to learn that the Heavy weight boxing Championship had returned to the white race. We got a wireless through today about the capture of the Australian submarine A.E.2 in the Sea of Marmona, & about a Turkish Army Corps that tried to advance under cover of a Warship & were completely annihilated. The audacity.