Foreign News: Thomson Disgraced?

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

On Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last...

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