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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR
100,000 men, selected from trawler crews and fishermen, all inured to the sea and skilled in the use of nets. To this auxiliary fleet were added fast motor-boats for scouting purposes. Among the officers of this fleet are to be found retired naval men, from admirals down, yachtsmen, trawler skippers, and officers of merchantmen. The work done by the auxiliary fleet in destroying enemy submarines, in sweeping up mines, in taking care of neutral shipping, has been of an amazing character. When the number of enemy submarines destroyed, now known to the British and German Admiralties, is given out, the world will be astounded, and especially the German people.
