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which we had on board for land- ing purposes only two were of any use, the remainder being shot away. There was no help for it bus for our landing party, to go ahead with theee two, damaged and shaking though they were.
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THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID. to take her place under her own steam behind the lines of the protecting crai8378, ..
One of those who was watching the operations from so secorting When I saw ship said to me : the damage she had suffered ▲ Kentish Port, April, 23—
oquld scarcely believe it possible "With a ringing cheer and companies with regard to the 60 d.......... To-night some of the men who for her to have kept aflost. Her Over you go. Royale!' our storm-freight for next season's Formosenm/................ took-part-in-the-Belgian cost men below-must-have worked ing parly effected landing on sugar to Japan. The present rate T/T Shanghai.... operation hare given me graphic like Trojan, for she was throwing the first ledge of the Mole. We is 11.50 per pical, which the T/T Singapore
flames 10ft, high from her fannels, lost heavily in the process, for the steamship compania proposed T/T Japan descriptions of the exploit,
If their belief is well-founded and she made the fastest time abellare dirroted against us was should be raised to TI 95 for the T/T India they have destroyed every gun on she had probably ever been able terrible. After reaching this first next season. Sabeequently they Demand, India ....... ledge we had another drop of agreed to lower the rate to T1.85 T/T San Francis-1 the Zabrange Mole, they have to accomplish. destroyed the sheds over its entire You ask me what the scene some 20ft. to negotiate before we on condition that the Taiwan, T/T JavB... 1501 length; they have exploded large was like. No words of mine can could get to gripe with the earmy. Easaiko, sad the Teikoku sugar T/T Marks....... Nom. stores of munitions contained in describe it. All I can say is that To make matters worse it was companies, which have their own IT France
steamers, should not use them for Demand, Paris ...... 4.4614 them and they have blocked the the explosions on the Mole and raining heavily all the time.
BUYING. mouth of the cans and the the sound of shells crashing from "Undaunted, our men lowered the transport of enger for the next
3/414 4 m/s. L/C..... waterway leading through the their guns made a tanfold bell so themselves by means of ropes and five years. This condition, bow-
3/456 harbour with old cruisers filled far as noise was concerned.
rope-laddars. Three Hur destroy javer, has been rejected by them/s. D/P....
6 m/s. LIC..
3/478 with temer
"I have never heard anything era were lying alongside the Mole engar companies affected," and were within half a like it before. We were only 400 on the further side, and all three accordingly the negotiations still It is believed mile of the barbour entrance no or 500 yards away from the point of them kept firing at the Vindio- remain unsettled. ships had picked up the light on of the Mole, bat we were afraid to tire at close range, so it became the sugar companies will have to eventually submit to the terms of the point of the Hole. The ship fire a shot because we should have necessary to silence them first. chosen to make the attack was at once attracted the attention of
"From theas boats the German the steamship companies. manned entirely by volunteers, the enemy and given them our sailors came up in swarme to and every min know that the exact whereabouts.
attack us, but they found them. Scottish Mineral Oil Companies. Demand, Germany..
It was officially announced re- Demand, New York. 784 "Apparently they had nearly selves face to face with British service was an exceedingly dan geroas one. But all the men judged it, for they threw any bayonets. With a cheers our men cently that the Scottish mineral TT Bombay ......
oil companies have in contempla-Demand, Bombay... Nom. Hogaged in the operation, either namber of abells round us. I charged them.
"Never was a more extraordin- tion the formation of a central T/T Calcutta actively or on the escorting should think it would be a
1564 raisers, were anxious to form moderata, estimate to say that ary battle fought then this agency to dispose of their pro- Demand, Caloutta... Nom.
Demand, Singapore. 140 part of the landing party. three or four thousand shells were Homeric conflict in the very dead duole. For some time past the Demand, Manila
On Haiphong The attacking ship started for thrown at the vessels in the of night in pouring rain, with boards of management of the
shells bursting around on a narrow companies have been considering On Saigon har object ve followed by the attacking squadron." rauttered "Good luck!" of the To-night in this town everyone platform, with the sea on each the whole question of distribution On Bangkok ships' companies of the small is full of praise for the men who side. Our men were armed with with a view of effecting great Sovereign escorting fleet outside the barbour, have done such magnificent short saves as well as with rifles, economy and efficiency, and as a Gold Leaf, per oz... 45.60 She had scarcely begun to get rice. Each ship treasures in They pressed on, and the astonish- result of the negotiations which Bar Silver, per oz.... 4876 the Male light when she was disita log the testimony of the enemy were driven back under have taken place a provision! SUBSIDIARY COINS.
agreement has been adjusted overed by the German defences. admiral engaged in the operations the shelter of their land gane. In a moment starehelle, which the to the effect that these were
"Clearing a space, we daaked which, in the opinion of the boards, embodiee anlookers described as more vivid carried out satisfactorily.
up to the first destroyer, into respective than anything else they have ever The men I found just as teen which we lobbed some 50 hand a working arrangement likely to H'kong 50 cts sub. rean pierved even the thick hasee if they had been able to sail bomba. A lond explosion follow- prave satisfactory and beneficial sad sbowed the attacking cruiser on the Kiel Canal and cut cut aed, and the last we saw of her to all. The companies involved * clearly as if it had been broad portion of the enemy's feet: that the was on fire and was 878 Broxbara Oil Company Canton daylight.
"It is not so much what we sinking. We were acable to Limited; Oskbank Oil Company, In a second it seemed se if were able to do," they say, "28 reach the other two destroyers, Limited; Pampherston Oil Com every battery in neighbourhood the fact that we were able to and what became of them we are pany, Limited; James Bore and fasued by the Wartime Indue
Company: Pailipetoun Oil Worke; had concentrated their fire on her. accomplish all we were asked to unable to say.
Board. 2.-When ordery The Vindictive had three and Young's Paraffin Light and under the Priority Certificates How she could get ahead acre of do. We have, of course, had to those who were watching her pay for it, but so far we know howitzers on board-one far'ard, Mineral Oil Company, Limited issued by the Wartime Industry could understand. Grest 17-inch the price is small, in view of the one amidships, and one aft Be The proposal is that a selling Board have been executed, then shalls and others ofemaller calibro ancossa achieved."
fore we left her the crew of the agercy, of which all these com stocks and manufacturing osF- flew around her like hail, Ap To-night some of the men have for ard gun had been wiped out panies will be the orginal mem-acity may be utilised for the formed under the execution of other orders. These parently she was hit by one or been sent away on leave--chiefly three times in succession by the bere, be
a private orders, however, eball two of the smaller ones, but she those who were on the attacking bail of shot from the guns on Companies Acts as
own gunners company with limited liability, those necessary for the public plugged ahead and was seen to ships. Others have been brought shore. But our turn the corner of the Mole safely in within the last half hour, clad stuck it like Britone, and pamped which will undertake the sale and good, such as those concerning inside the harbour:
in all sorts of nondescript clothes, lyddits shelle galore at the Ger- distribution of the products of military affairs, fuel, and railways, The fire was apparently deflect and conveyed through the streets mans on the beach.
the company. Having in view according to the decisions of the ed from her more vital parts by to the Naval Hospital and "After bombing and setting the present position as to man, Wartime Industry Board. When
power, as well the circum all there orders have been fulfilled! the intervening structure of the barracks in naval lorries. They light ta the destroyer W8
Most of the damage was were loudly cheered by the formed up and forced our the move is regarded as in the demand of the general public may etance of the oil trade generally, and there is still a surplus, the done above the water-line.
sembled crowd, which
was sebore at the point of the bayonet
be met with permission of the Disregarding all that had hap made up of civilians, soldiers, We charged the crew of the shore right direction. pened, her commander pluckily and naval men, among whom gan which had been giving us so
authorities. The iron industry of closed up to the Mols and landed were not a few Frenchman. much trouble, and after killing a
the United States has been practio- The survivors of the attsoking number of them the rest dispersed a large party of his men, accom
A telegram recently received in ally placed under the control of the panied by a force of Marines. ships' crews arrived in the clothes and we captured the gun. Tokyo from the Japanese Ambas Government, sad, it will become The Germanr, as soon se they saw they had worn during the attack. It was warm work, All around sador in Washington says that increasingly difficult to obtain the attacking party land, are maid Many of them had lost their kit, as we could hear above the din ander date of the 14th altimo the supplies except for requirements by those who took part in the and they were told to go to bed at of the 08psonsding the orice of U, S. Wartime Industry Board relating to military matters and the operation to have shouted almost ance and rest. When they point the wounded. It was ghastly, issued an official announcement public weal. According to as with one voice: It's the ed out that they had lost their kit, but our men behaved magnifi- with regard to an agreement dispatch received in Japan by the Americans! It's the Yankee!" arrangements were made at once cently. Meanwhile the Vindictive entered into with the newly Nagase Shoten on the 17th ultimo, According to some of the men to provide them with dry cloth was being shelled from all established American Steel and it has lately become more difficult they bolted en masse from the ing,, and then they were packed quarters, and she was still engaged Iron Institute. The gist of the to obtain licences for exports to with the shore batteries when we announcement ie that when there Japan in view of the increased nearest batterice, leaving their off on leave.
Bayonet Attack amid Ringing received by eyran the signal to is a surplus in the supplies of iron demand in the States. This in gune at the mercy of the British Failors and Marines.
withraw. The block ships had by and steel after meeting the direct particularly the case with bars, One by one the gune were
Desi, April 24-The most con- this time been sank sad our and indirect war requirements and hereafter it will be absolutely destroyed, while othere of the
of the United States and the impossible to export mild stool attacking party took flame-nected and graphic story of the object had been attained.
"When we got back on board, Allies, it will be shared out to the bare to Japan. There is no siter- throwers and attacked, the sheds raid was given me by two officers, and munitions stores. Apparent both of whom modestly make the poor old Vindictive was general public. The official an native but to obtain supplies of ly under cover of this operation light of their own contribution to terrible sight, but her captain nouncement is to the following iron bare in place of mild steel With the effect:-Pig iron and steel goods bars, but even then it is not the laden oranisare which were the venture and of their many was fine seaman. intended to block the channels miraculous escapes. Both officers almost coolness he gave his shall not be shipped or delivered knows whether it will be possible made their way through the are load in their praises of the orders from the exposed bridge, except in the following cases to obtain licences for the export of despite the firing and bursting Against Priority Certificatae iron bare from the United States. harbour, accompanied, so far as I conduct of all ranks.
In their own words it was "shrapnel, and with the greatest osi ascertain, by only one ab
damned fine adventure, carried skill he mazœuvred bis ship and marine.
the cut with dare devil pluck." Both got her safely out, under cover of As they approached entrance to the harbour they were officers belong to the Plymouth her own smoke sreen.
"As we steered down channel: anchored, swung round on their company, and it is the third land- cables, and, socording to the ing which each of them has for home, just at daylight, wa met the warship on which was testimony of one of the observers, taken part in during the war.
"We were on board the Vin-Admiral Roger Kayes. The Bunk within 23 · minutes of
dictive and we arrived at our Admiral signelled to us Well anchoring.
One of the destroyers or to allotted position. In accordancs done, Vindictive l'and both crewe companying submarines exploded with plan we approached under cheered themselves hoarse as the a charge at the lock gates and it cover of our own woke clouds, vessels passed each other:
"All the reesels large and "We arrived at Dover st 8 30 is hoped and believed destroyed
small, took part in this device, on Tuesday morning, and on them.
Meanwhile four torpedo-boat the smaller oraft letting out as entering the harbour we had a destroyers had also entered the much smoke as their larger splendid reception from the crewe harbour and were able to cruise consorts. In fact there was of the ships there and from the round and make observatione, veritable blanket of smoke people on shore. Vios-Admiral bat were unable to take part in stretching from Zeebrugge to Keyes met the remasats of our the battle. When the attacking Ostend, a jet black. impenetrable battalion on Dover Pier later, sad ship and the landing parties had wall of vapour which completely in congratulating all ranks he deceived the Hun for a time. Bat told me that the whole operation were had been a complete success, and completed their work the men were taken aboard again deepits when he discovered we
that we had done our work well. the damaged condition of the about be put up star-shella.
"One of the finsat schievementa "We had no alternative then craiser, and it began to make its
bat to go ahead. We steamed of the undertaking was the work way out of the harbour.
A. 17 inch ahsil, out of the through the smoke screen, and at our old submarines. Two of hundreds of shells of varying then wagat hall. Yes; there is the oldest of them managed to oslibre last were fired at her, no other word for it. It was get in under the wisilnot kất got well home on the upper pare, unadulterated. hell All Zeebrugge, and between ihrem works and forward. Her steer our men were on deck, and the they placed some 20 tons of Germans shelled, the Vindictive explosive under the shore end of -ing apparatOH WAS injured,
and she signalled to some of without cessation for 20 minutes, the viaduct which connects the Despite this terrific Are we Mole with the land, blowing it bez woort ships to show her the way out. But before they carried on. Bat when we got up and thus completely prevent arrived she managed to make alongside the Mole ere found that ing reinforcements coming from her way out of the harbour and out of 14 prowe or gangways the shore. Daily Chronicle,
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