That to possible German war-ships she might not disclose her position, she sent no wireless messages.

But she could receive them; and at breakfast in the ship's newspaper appeared those she had overnight snatched from the air.

Among them, without a scare-head, in the most modest of type, we read: "England and Germany have declared war." Seldom has news so momentous been conveyed so simply or, by the Englishmen on board, more calmly accepted.

For any exhibition they gave of excitement or concern, the news the radio brought them might have been the result of a by-election.
Later in the morning they gave us another exhibition of that repression of feeling, of that disdain of hysteria, that is a national characteristic, and is what Mr.Kipling meant when he wrote: "But oh, beware my country, when my country grows polite!" Word came that in the North Sea the English war-ships had destroyed the German fleet.

To celebrate this battle which, were the news authentic, would rank with Trafalgar and might mean the end of the war, one of the ship's officers exploded a detonating bomb.
Nothing else exploded.