Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 52
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[Page 52]
The Australia – Syd & Melbourne have gone but this morning we heard that the Australia & Sydney were on their way back - This is but common sense since not a single German war ship in the Pacific has been captured - The A M & Syd left – presumably to convoy our troopers across the Indian Ocean - You see in a sea fight it's all a question of guns & gunfire & the Australia only in our Pacific fleet (bar Japanese) is the equal of the Scharnhorst - There are 5 or 6 German war boats about & no one knows where -
We've heard nothing about AE1 – AE2 is very carefully convoyed now I can tell you - A submarine is all iron & machinery - I talked to a stoker in my sick bay this morning & asked him what the men on AE2 thought - They thought he said she'd dived & hadn't come up - The pressure below 100 feet wd eventually burst crush them - Just an accident he said - We heard a buz - that the Russians had landed troops in France – that the English & French & Belgians had driven the Germans back out of France – that "Bill" had thrown in his hand & wanted peace – probably all buz - We hear nothing about Europe - No papers since Townsville & not a reliable item from any source -