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LOSS OF THE FAZILKA.

FULL STORY OF THE KRONSTAD ATTACK.

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LATEST NEWS FROM THE STRANDED SHIP.

With reference to the trip of the

NAVAL GALLANTRY.

Dutch Government steamer Nias" The following statement was issu-

to the Nicobar islands to assist the ed by the Admiralty

Telephone 1967-8

in size is quite inadequate, not one of the nine machines (sea and land) failed to keep to its time-table or to lend the utmost and most effective support during and after the attack to the coastal motor-boats.

DARING.. MOTOR-BOAT CREWS. Commander Claude C. Dobson, who

that the "Petropavlovsk" was not seriously damaged.]

AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS. during the night Aug. 17-18, 1919, The operations against Kronstadt were conducted by the British naval and air forces combined.

with her steering gear, and had later joined up a long way astern of Lieutenant Agar's division. He was unable to enter the basin, owing to is steering gear, and attempted to torpedo a destroyer who had come to the assistance of the flotilla leader, He then retired, and on going through but his firing gear was shot away.

Eight, aircraft took part in the the forts discovered 86 in trouble, operation. The intention was that

aircraft should attract all attention stood by her and eventually took her should be neither heard nor seen to ia tow. During the time I was in

stranded English steamer Fazilka" The Bolshevik warships in Kron-was in command of the coastal motor the Nieuwsblad van Ateh publishes/stad Harbour had long constituted boats which carried out the attack, and, at very great risk to himself,in Kronstad, so that the CMB's

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the harbour

formidable threat to our mine reports as follows: the following

sweeping operations, which were Ileft H.M.S. "Vindictive” with eight On Monday at 8 a.m., the steamer being undertaken with the ultimate CMB's and proceeded to a the basin Lieutenant Agar and 24 approach the harbour and with that "Nias left via Sabang and reached object of sending food ships to rendezvous off Inonemi Point. Owing had entered, and 24 Lieutenant end in view the bombing attack was early next day the stranded steamer Kronstad and Petrograd It was to the darkness it was impossible to Napier, had torpedoed the flotilla before the C.M.B.'s reached the line Fazilka lying near a cliff between necessary in order to safeguard our see how many beats were keeping in leader guardship, who caught fire of forts to the northward of Kren- timed to commence-fire-minutes She had already position that this menace should be company, and all signalling was sprung several leaks. There was destroyed as soon as possible. The strictly forbidden. I arrived at disappeared, and from reports it is stad, and, further, to continue untif

and sank Lieutenant Napler then big sea running and the breakers beat squadron consisted of the battleships Inonemi Foint ten minutes before the presumed that he tried to retire the boats reached from time to time over the high part "Petropavlovsk" and "Andrei Per-appointed time of leaving, and through the South Channel and was amidship. The Captain. few offi-vozanni," the cruisers. "Oleg and stopped. The remainder of the flotilla disabled by gunfire, or by fouling cers and some lascars were still on "Rurik, three to five submarines, joined up about midnight. I then either nets or the breakwater, and submitting his report, observer:

The senior officer concerned, i board. All the rest had already reach-three or four large destroyers, and proceeded towards the North Channel was eventually soak by gunfire. ed the shore of the uninhabited island. about the same number of torpedo at nineteen, knots, Lieutenant Agar

Out of the eight life boats of the boats. The following details of the proceeding independently according R.N.R., in 62, had followed Lieuten works in an operation in which cacts Although it is invidious to select Lieutenant-Commander

any pilot or observed as particularly "Fazilka" six had been destroyed action have been received by the to

Braid, deserving of special mention for his plan. and the remaining two could be used. Admiralty from the Senior Naval ward -

I passed to south- The long boat of the "Nias" took Officer in the Baltic, Rear Admiral and then between Forts No. 8 and and, according to the reports from a moet efficient manner, the name of of Fort No,

ant Agar and 24 through the forts fulfilled the duties allotted to him in From the shore the necessary lascars Sir Walter Cowan. Rear-Admiral 10. By this time I was a little late air craft, must have catered the Captain A. C. Randall, D.F.CRAT to equip these two boats. On the Cowan reports:

on programme time, and the air rald middle harbiar and fired his two perhaps be mentioned as chewing- second trip the long host was upset, The position of the ships in the had commenced, so I should have torpedoes at some target unknown. devotion to duty. This officer ex- which shows the grave risks the harbour has been ascertained by liked to have increased speed, but From the same evidence it is preperienced what was apparently com rescuers took. The first thing was aerial photographs, and the attacks the difficulties of navigation were so sumed that he was set on fire, and plete engine failure when half-www to save the 54 cases of gold (of the on them rehearsed by the boats great, that I had to reduce rather sank inside the middle harbour." value of about two and one half mit-against our ships, with water space than increase. No signs had been lien Dutch guilders) and the valuable so limited that the conditions of helm seen of Lieutenant Agar and C.M.B. boat, 79, Lieutenant "Bodley reports although he knew it was liable t

to land his engine restarted, and to Kronstad Just as he was alsut instruments of the ship, etc. The and speed were identical. Aircraft 24, and I could only see two beats that he saw a burning mass close to fall again at any moment, he pre- crew of the first file boat of the were to co-operate, and it was plan. following me, Nos: 79 and 88. These the flotilla -leader, which he thought ceeded to Kronstad, and took a very

Fazilka" which arrived alongside bed that they should arrive and bomb two boats had kept perfect station was a C.M.B., but saw no signs of active part in the operation. the "Nias" were so tired that they the harbour just before the coastal the whole time. However, as the air the crew.

engine failed completely on the m refused to return; whereupon the crew motor-boats engines could be heard. attack was in full swing, I det of the "Nias" manned their boats This time-table was most accurately ermined to press on with the boats through the North Channel forts, and

I proceeded, with 88 in company turn journey, under one of the Dutch officers and carried out, with the result that the I had rather than wait on the off passed through northward of No. 4 of aircraft in this operation pa

It is concluded that the p de sot off. for the "Fazilka." The same

first three coastal motor boats passed chance of being able to pick up fort, being heavily fired at with ed to divert the enemy's akej ma afternoon all the valuable goods were harbour without a shot being fired.

the line of forts and entered the stragglera, brought over to the "Nias" and also

machine and rifle fire and guns of from surface craft as mutile Each the last of the crew: Captala Wiles

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I found the Petrograd Canal and various calibres. When clear of No, boats reached the entrance to the definite proceeded up it Lieutenant Bremner, fort I stopped, letting 88 go on, middle harbour all the firing was then abandoned the stranded steamer.

objective, embracing The Superintendent of the B.I.S.N. Pervozanni, Famiat Avas, guarding the entrance of the Middle seaplane who came near me. As afterwards searchlights were trained tor in 79, taking station ahead of me as and waited to see if any more boats anti-aircraft, and no searchlight pedoing of "Petropavlovsk Andrel arranged. We found a flotilla leader were in the vicinity and signalled a were trained on the water. Zwa E. W. FRAZAR & CO., 5 Rue de Paris, Tientsin, China,from Sabang and later on the "Nias," ing the entrance, and the gates of 79 left her on the starboard hand, opened fire on me again, and I moves continued high angle firing, especialy Co., Mr. Stockwell, who was on board Rurik, the patrol vessel guard Harbour, but no one was on deck; soon as it became light No. 4 fort on the sky and several batteries THE SHANGHAI GARAGE CO., 4 Foochow Road,

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also the Captain of the "Fazilka"; the biggest dock. Of these six enter and turned and entered the basin, further wear, and again waited, the forts and batteries on the nord praised the officers and crew for the prisen four were achieved. The boats causing me to stop to avoid confusion There was no sign of any other side and the western end of the brave deeds that they had performed entrusted with the other two hats at the entrance. 79 carried out his bost, and I proceeded to the flagship island. It was not until the fir and were full of admiration for the been accounted for, and it may be orders and torpedoed the aud most dangerous job that they had ful- that, before being destroyed, as I marine depot ship. I the entered the owing to engine and steering trouble, 4 Zort, on their way home, tha

Sub Lieutenant Howard in 85, two C.M.B.'s were abreast of N Alled..."

The "Fazilka" is a total loss and they may have struck some blow, succeeded in hitting the "Pervozanal, and on passing through the line of of surface craft. it i submitted fear it may be assumed they are, asin, and Lieutenant Machers had great difficulty in keeping touch, these batteries realised the presence when the Nias left the place, this the results of which may become with two torpedoes. I then saw 88, forts both engines gave out. By the that the success of this operation steamer was breaking up. At pre- apparent by further photographing, who had followed me into the efforts of Engineer Commander Yates reflects great credit on the pari of, sent it is the East Monsoon so in short The results were gained not basin, put one torpedo time there will be nothing left of the only by dauntless disciplined the Andrai Perevorauni," and one aged to get one engine firing on one airmen of the scaplane base, auk into and the two mechanics they man the non-commissioned officers and Fazilka."

bravery at the moment attack, but by strict attention to gun and rifle fire being very hot by to attempt to enter the harbour un untiring work on machines no longer

of into the "Petropavlovak." Machine block of cylinders. It being hopeless aerodrome. Their zealous and rehearsal of every detall before this time, all thres boats started to der sach conditions, he resolutely modern is most commendable. UNNECESSARY WORDS. band by every member of the per retire, and appeared all right. I took carried out orders, and patrolled 1. HY whate words and advertising sonnel, both of the boats, and also the lead, followed by 88. I think 79 Petrograd Bay ready to attack any sv in de cribing the many of the Air Force. Of the latter there must have been disabled coming hostile craft who might try to inter points of merit in Chamberlain's Cough is this to say that though, all their through the entrance, and later fere with the retirement. He even Ready! The most fastidious are satis arrangements for bombing were caught fire and was destroyed.tually made his way out at him utmost And when a state that it corn colds makeshift, and the aerodrome frum sind coughs from any e 1069, and that it entai sa intelea narsotics or in which five machines had to rise in corner of the Military Harbour I sawed up by Lieutenant Bodley and tow. As we were passing the south-east speed of seven knots, and was picks jurious 40 Anos Porale by all the dark was a month before a another boat entering This was ed bick Cheralsts and Storckooper

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