doing? It will be a great blow to our prestige whatever Churchill may say, & should be a distinct score for the German Navy. Dec 20 An exhibition of bomb throwing & hand grenades is given by Captain Morton Royal Engineers One officer & six men per battalion attended for instruction. A trench about five feet deep had been prepared and the bomb in the shape of a jam tin filled with explosive with fuse attached was thrown from this trench; it was found that the inexperienced man could only throw it 20 or 30 yards - it is a dangerous