about eight o'clock
`` The paper says that about six o'clock Wednesday morning the Wanderer , a vessel laden with foodstuffs from Australia , was hailed by the crew of a submarine . They were permitted to take to the small boats and then the Wanderer was torpedoed , going down at once . The submarine was positively identified as the ` U-13 . ' Then the other paragraph says that at about eight o'clock on Thursday evening the steamer Adventure from Buenos Ayres with a cargo of flour for London was treated in the same manner off Margate by the ` U-13 ' ! '' `` Is n't it a little strange that the submarine should have attacked a peaceful merchant vessel ? '' inquired Jack . `` That is n't war ! ''