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Excerpt from Dodging the North Sea Mines The August day was unusually warm. A thin veil of mist seemed almost to cover the earth and shut out the light of day. People walking along the streets of London apparently were affected by the dingy atmosphere. There was a listlessness in their actions which at first sight seemed to he due to the depression cast by the low-banging clouds. A second glance, however, convinced Earl Platt that there was another and a deeper reason for the apparent lack of activity among the pedestrians on Victoria Street. It was now the middle of August, 1914. For two weeks England bad been at war with Germany. The anxiety aroused by such a condition naturally was manifest among the English people. A little slow to awaken to the seriousness of the conflict into which they had thrown themselves, they nevertheless were surely and steadily beginning to assert their power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.