Note 2 — Chapter XV · THE RUNAWAY RAIDERS

I saw the “eighth” man not far from the spot where he and his comrades were standing when the shell burst. He had been wounded by shell splinters on the head, which, when I saw him, was bandaged. The effect of the explosion, he said, was terrible. He declared that the German warships were flying the British white ensign, and that he could distinguish their flags quite clearly.—W. W.