almost anything unpleasant and which was finally shooed away by the cruiser.

The guard on board the ship which kept such order as was necessary and looked for suspicious lights, was furnished by each battery in turn. Our turn happened to fall on the night of our entry into the danger zone, the night before our Naval escort picked us up. An extra guard was also posted to operate water-tight doors, and every imaginable precaution was taken to cover our lights. Even the chart house was less brightly lighted, though it usually looked like a store window at Christmas time; but the number of carelessly screened port-holes seemed greater than ever. Up in the first cabin it was easy enough to spot the source of a light, but when we saw a gleam through a port-hole in the side of the ship, it meant a merry hunt until we got it covered; sometimes the gleam would be imaginary, and sometimes it would come from the engineers' mess where they could not see the necessity of such a fuss anyway. They say one of the passengers was a German sympathizer who deliberately let a light show. He was certainly careless to say the least.

Our entry into the danger zone brought two innovations with it. First, we were to stay on deck from 5.30 in the morning till 8 at night, barring meal times, and we were to wear life belts at all times. The halflight of the early morning makes observation very difficult and such a time is ideal for submarine attacks. Accordingly, we got up much earlier and remained at our boat stations until breakfast time, when the critical period was considered past. As for the lifebelts,

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