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with the Austrian bombs and shells.
To sum up we were all heartily thankful when the last of the raiders had disappeared, for it is a most unpleasant, feeling to have to sit tight and wait for bombs to be dropped on you from the heavens without any possible means of protecting yourself or hitting back. From a naval point of view we looked upon it as something quite unfair and absolutely outside the rules of the game. We were quite willing to meet their ships as often as they liked to come out, but this was an underhand or perhaps one should say an over-hand sort of business lacking the chivalry and the courtesies of the sea. But this is what war has taught all branches of the service a lot, and as we were told when we first came to the Adriatic that "beside the enemy's surface craft and submarines," we should have to contend "against his aircraft." This was one of the occasions and so we docketted it thus.