These gunboats are handy craft

TCD MS 10515 folio 125 recto

TCD MS 10515 folio 125 recto

Christened these gunboats as was the man who named horses hope-lesssly colour-blind. These gunboats are handy craft; they carry 4 inch guns, twelve pounders and maxims; draw but a few feet of water and look com-plete even to the wireless.
News from the great world comes apace. How vast it all seems; how much more start-ling are these mighty upheavals when viewed from the silent unchanging desert. First the fall of Kut; Then the Irish rebellion; then the North Sea battle ; then the loss of Lord Kitchener; climax follows upon climax to provide us with food for thought and speculation, to impress on us how severed we are from the great events of life by guarding the plank of the Tigris army