From How British Sea Power Saved the World, a piece published by Gerard Fiennes in the Daily News on 1918/11/12, and found in the British Library Online Newspaper Archive:
The expression also crops up in A Master of Fortune (1901), a Captain Kettle novel by Cutcliffe Hyne:
I assume that “Dutchmen” covers sundry Germans (including those famous sailors, the Swiss Germans), and that “Dagos” extends to the Romance peoples, if peoples they be. I’m amazed that British Eurosceptics haven’t discovered the expression.
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