Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 146
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from top to bottom & everything being in order he was allowed to proceed.
Now in sight of home he was bailed up again and compelled to wait another day. it mist have been annoying but still England was at war and america in those days was not.
Nearly every day we had some quiet from being obnoxious to merchant shipping and sometimes thes ships came at us at once.
Occasionally one would refuse to stop seeing us already busy but a signal to one of our other patriots just over the horizon usually resulted in the bolt being cut short. Where a ship showed herself ready to assist our examination officers and look upon the invasion as an unfortunate necessity care was taken to afford her as little inconvenience as possible but with a recalcitrant or bellicose skipper the case was different and he was given a pretty thorough overhaul.
The first cheery news we got in looking up our billet off New York was that the Admiralty had declared the patrol waters a submarine area having reason to believe that submarines had made their way across the