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“Thank heaven you came before it was too late.”—Page 108
THE
OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS
ON
WAR SWEPT SEAS
BY
CAPTAIN WILBUR LAWTON
AUTHOR OF “THE BOY AVIATORS’ SERIES,” “THE DREADNOUGHT
BOYS’ SERIES,” “THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS ON THE
ATLANTIC,” “THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS AND THE
LOST LINER,” “THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS ON
THE PACIFIC”
With Illustrations by
ARTHUR O. SCOTT
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY, Inc.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1917,
BY
HURST & COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I The Gold Ship 5 II War Is Declared! 15 III On Deck Once More 23 IV Icebergs Ahead! 32 V A Close Shave 38 VI Smoke on the Horizon 49 VII A Shot at the Rudder 55 VIII Land
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Ho! 61 IX A Strange Quest 69 X Under Old Glory 78 XI The “Herr Professor” Again 84 XII The Armed Cruiser 90 XIII A Message in Code 96 XIV The Cattle Ship 103 XV Jack’s Brave Leap 113 XVI Awaiting Orders 120 XVII What Befell in the After Cabin 128 XVIII A Rascal Brought to Book 135 XIX The “Barley Rig” 147 XX The Hidden Mine 154 XXI The North Sea 160 XXII A Night of Alarms 167 XXIII
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Meeting an Old Friend 173 XXIV The Sky Slayer 179 XXV In the Glare of the Flames 187 XXVI Two Young Heroes 194 XXVII “The Germans Are Coming!” 201 XXVIII Fast Traveling 207 XXIX The Uhlans! 215 XXX “You Are a Spy!” 221 XXXI Court-martialed 227 XXXII The Long Night 233 XXXIII Through Bullet-Racked Air 243 XXXIV A Flight of Terror 248 XXXV The Bully of the Clouds 254 XXXVI A Mysterious Capture 260 XXXVII The Might of Militarism
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@45841@[email protected]#chXXXVII" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">266 XXXVIII Military Cross-examination 272 XXXIX Shattering the Shackles 278 XL Old Glory Again 285 XLI War in Times of Peace 292