Horribly cold again & the Cornish Tors are quite white.

The story in yesterday’s paper of how a German armed merchantman tried to break through our blockade is very thrilling to read. She was disguised as a Norwegian vessel but when one of our ships stopped her & put off a boat to board her & examine her papers she saw the game was up & made a fight for it but though she was a big ship & ours a much smaller one she did very little with her guns while ours soon did for her, but she managed to torpedo ours so both ships sank. This happened at the end of Feb, but we have only now been told of it.

Our army has advanced along a distance about 600 yards & taken two lines of trenched.