Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — BOY ALONE SAW SEA FIGHT [ARTICLE]

BOY ALONE SAW SEA FIGHT

No One Else in Fleet Witnessed Whole Dogger Bank Naval Battle.

London. —In a recent visit by English newspaper correspondents to the grand fleet the most interesting point elicited was the extraordinary suddenness of modern sea fighting. There were instances of a fight beginning before the ventilators were closed down and the strangest of all, a story of the battle of the Dogger bank, where a boy was sent out to clean something on one of the turrets and he was forgotten in the hurry and the turret closed. The boy lay flat on the top through the fight, and he is one of the few persons, officers and men, in the whole affair who actually saw the battle, and the only one who could give his whole attention to the sight, as he had nothing else to do. That boy will have a great story to tell when he Is an old man.