Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1918 — Navy Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Navy Superstition.

A visitor on a British battleship was dintng with a group of officers when his fork accidentally struck a glass tumbler. As the glass resounded the officers shouted as one man, “Hun.” On asking for fin explanation the visitor was told that the ringing of a glass meant bad luck. One officer declared that on one ship he formerly commanded every time a glass was rung a man fell overboard. This is why officers now cry “Hun” when a table accident occurs, they hoping to transfer their bad luck tp the enemy.