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Her brave Atlantic crossing,
dodging Royal Navy warships,

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became a rallying point for anyone
who had suffered from the British blockade.

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Our crossing gradually became a triumph

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All the neutral steamers we met
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greeted us with three hoots or with their sirens

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Only an English steamer sailed past
in deadly silence

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while we were proudly raising
the black white and red flag in the wind

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The Deutschland's crew
received a hero's welcome.

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There were dinners in their honour.

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Captain König was invited
to meet the President.

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The three weeks we spent in the United States
were a non stop party

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Everywhere we went
people gathered round us

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They all wanted a souvenir of some kind

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I even sold the buttons off my shirt
and the stripes off my tunic

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German families introduced us to their
daughters and we never had to pay for beer

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The Deutschland returned to Germany
with a vital cargo of nickel and rubber.

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The help it gave the economy was nothing
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as even Caroline Ethel Cooper had to admit.

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The town is flagged today
because the Deutschland has got safely back

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The sight of those red white and black flags
always makes me sick

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but I am glad she got across all the same

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It was a sporting run

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But the Deutschland was too
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ln Germany and Austria, there were
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and too many officials trying
to ration what food there was.

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The situation with the hunger and queues
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People wait for potatoes in their hundreds

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four deep
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Every morning there are queues
lined with armchairs and cushions

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upon which people sit and sleep

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The shortages worsened after
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The Germans called it the Turnip Winter.

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Many had nothing to eat but cattle fodder.

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There were fifty food riots that year.

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Oh what days of terror! Everything's in turmoil!

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There was havoc in town last night

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The windowpanes were smashed in
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Angry crowds were shouting
outside bakeries and inns

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Up at the castle they cursed the Major
in words I shan't repeat

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The army appeared at eleven

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It's horribly cold and because the rolling stock
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there is an extreme shortage of coal

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We're learning how to be freezing
which isn't the most pleasant feeling

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School theatres and cinemas
have all been closed until further notice

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because of the lack of coal

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(Ship's hooter)

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The German Navy did nothing to help.

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Even if large parts of our battle fleet
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it would have accomplished more than
it does now lying well preserved in our ports

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At Wilhelmshaven, people
wrote graffiti on the walls.

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''Dear Fatherland you may rest assured

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the Fleet's in harbour safely moored''

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Admiral Reinhardt Scheer had been ordered
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But by mid 1916,
the pressure to do something was intense.

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On 31 May, Germany's High Seas Fleet
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hoping to engage the
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But the British were one jump ahead.

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The men in Room 40 had
already decoded Scheer's orders.

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Three hours before the Germans
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the entire British Grand Fleet
was on its way to intercept them.

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Now the world would get the great sea battle
it had been waiting for.

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Jutland.

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It was a titanic clash.

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250 warships, 100,000 men.

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Britain's first great fleet action since Trafalgar.

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It was a fight they had to win .

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lf Germany ended up masters of the North Sea,
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the British army in Europe cut off,
Britain herself open to invasion.

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Admiral John Jellicoe was,
Winston Churchill said,

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''The only man who could lose the war
in an afternoon.''

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Less well-armoured than Germany's,

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Britain's ships preferred to fight
at very long range.

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But at Jutland, the range was just five miles.

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We fired very slowly with deliberation

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while the Kaier-class ships in front of us
shot like mad

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Now the English were in
an unfavourable position

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MAN : Our first shot hit the bridge
of a German destroyer and blew it to hell

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Shells fell all around us
and what with ships sinking

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and dying and dead bodies floating about
it made one shiver at the sight of it

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At 4:30pm, the battle cruiser Queen Mary
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which exploded in the ship's magazine.

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A horrible sight it was

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First an enormous height of dull red flame
followed by a great mass of black smoke

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amongst which was the wreckage
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The blast was tremendous

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Admiral Beatty watched from HMS Lion .

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There seems to be something wrong
with our bloody ships today

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About seven o'clock
we passed the wreck of a large ship

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which at that time we hoped was a German
but later larned was one of ours

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She was broken right in two

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The bow and stern were sticking up
about fifty feet and quite independent

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But the British had the Germans
out-gunned and outnumbered.

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As evening fell,
the German Fleet broke off the action.

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We were in a regular deathtrap

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There was only one way to escape
the unfavourable tactical situation

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turn the line about
and withdraw on the opposite course

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We had to get out of this dangerous
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To ''Silent Jack'' Jellicoe,
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it didn't look as though
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but lulling the British into a trap.