Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . .Hence the zigzagging of the ships expecting an attack. Ourfleet zigzagged all the way across. Ships are continually at-tacked, and the situation is much more dangerous than wouldseem to one on shore. Here he describes one particular night of the voyageand the impressions made upon him: The sea was rough and while it would have been difficultfor a submarine to hit us I realized that \i it did our loss of lifewould have been very large. It was very dark and cold, and itwould have been almost impossible for the men to reach the raftsas we threw them
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . .Hence the zigzagging of the ships expecting an attack. Ourfleet zigzagged all the way across. Ships are continually at-tacked, and the situation is much more dangerous than wouldseem to one on shore. Here he describes one particular night of the voyageand the impressions made upon him: The sea was rough and while it would have been difficultfor a submarine to hit us I realized that \i it did our loss of lifewould have been very large. It was very dark and cold, and itwould have been almost impossible for the men to reach the raftsas we threw them off. To hear a discussion of a raft detail on 346 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications a cold, dark and foggy deck as to whether it would not be betterin case of a sinking ship to take to the water without life pre-servers, in order to have things over quicker, only indicates howhopeless the outlook sometimes seems when one is on the seaand up against it, as compared with a discussion as to a courseof action held on land before Brigadier General Charles E. Dawes, A. E. F.,and Brigadier- General Ch. Payot of the FrenchArmy, Associates on Military Board of AlliedSupply. The Carmania arrived at Liverpool on the 11th ofAugust, eleven days after leaving Halifax. Four dayslater the two regiments, joined by the Thirteenth andFourteenth, making four regiments in all, performedthe famous march through London — the first foreignarmed troops that marched through that city since the Reviews, Notes and Comments 347 days of William the Conqueror, eight hundred and fifty-one years before. Of this march General Dawes says: In the parade there were four regiments of Engineers,about 4500 men in all. To each regiment was assigned a fineEnglish band, the best in the Empire. Our regiment was thefourth in the column. Walked with Colonel Sewell at the headof the regiment and with a British peer — Lord Erskine, I think— as the liaison officer. From the station to the end of thema
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