... may win no actual foothold on our soil, may not even hold single one of those Channel Ports—Zeebrugge, Ostend, Nieuport, Dunkirk —which he covets as nests for his U-boats to harry our shipping in all our sea-ways and to lighten up our blockade. VITALLY ...

... night. At daylight, when hauled up our anchor and steamed along the French coast, saw four bombs drop from a 'plane near Dunkirk Pier. Ten miles west-south-west of Cape Grisnez we passed floating mine. For the rest the passage had good weather. FOOD RUSHED ...