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A finishing touch to the narratives of the engagements is

given by the Times correspondent at Ymuiden, who says that the sur- vivors of the ` V69' in singing Luther's well-known hymn, " Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott," added an original ending, so that the sense ran :-

"A tower of strength our God cloth stand, But our German strength is sand ! "

Imagine British seamen declining to such sentiments, oven in the anguish of suffering and failure 1 Truly the German mind is past understanding.

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