THE
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WAR.
¿TREUDGE ACUTER'S AGENCY.}
THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID.
ACCOUNT BY « VINDICTIVE'S
CAPTAIN..
LONDON, April 25th." The papers continue to give full accounts of the magnificent work of the Zeebrugge and Ostend enterprises."
The Captain of the indictire states.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 29TH, 1918.
MEET.
Paris, April 26th;
mediate enemy territory, thus forming with the old colonies a solid continental block; How far French, West Africa and British territory in East and West Africa, should be included will depend on the further course of the war."
swept diagonally by machine-guns from ALLIED NAVAL COMMITTEE the Indian Ocean and taking in inter- both ends of the Mole and by heavy batteries ashore. The landing parties of Marines and bluejackets were gathered on the main and lower decks. Their commanders had both been killed before the word for the assault had been given, but the men were magnificent. They had to rush across awaying, splintering gangways and drop over the parapet into a field of fire from German machine guns. Then there was a further drop of sixteen feet on to the Mole itself, but
nothing stopped their orderly and speeds landing
to
make fast to the Mole ahead of Vin
The Inter Allied Naval Committee met this morning, the French Minister of Murine presiding. Franoc, Britain, the United States, Italy and Jamo were represented.
Continuing, Professor Hans Moyer atates that German Central Africa could CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND stations in which would be included St not exist without a streng chain of naval
HOSTILITY WEAKENING.
LONDON, April 26th: Correspondents in Ireland suggest that the hostility to conscription is weakening The Nationalists are beginning to realise that they are merely playing into the hands of the Sinn Fein.
The Correspondent of the Daily Chris
ete, which editorially is the soverest critte of conscription for Ireland, says that the moment Mr. Dillon Beeks to resume the Parliamentary policy of the Nationalist will disappear party the present unity and the responsibility for disturbing it
Thomas, Portuguese Guinea, Madeira and the Azores. These would afford extra- ordinarily important outposts for con- trolling world traffic. The writer fore- shadows determined Allied and American opposition, but concludes that Germany must take by force what she requires for realising her world political time.
HOLLAND AND GERMANY,
GERMAN POLICY CANNOT DEVIATE:
Meanwhile the lower dock had become Mare shambles. The crew of the howitzer mounted forward had all been killed and મુ secund crow bad been likewise destroyed, but a third crew took over the gun The Daffodil which was engaged in pressing the indictive against the Mole, only lost one killed and sight wounded. Moun that before starting, the Admiral aigual, while the Iris, which was attemples led !! St. George for England," and the dictive, was in trouble, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the para Vindictive replied, May we give the
pet.
Two officers, climbed ashore and sat dragon's tail & damned good twiststride the parapet trying to fasten the The Captain adds that before the ope. grapnels till each was killed. The Iris commander had both legs shot off A ration every man was informed fully, as single shell piercing the upper deck to the great risk, but not a single man exploded among fifty-six marines, killing forty-nine and wounding seven. Another hacked out, a
exploded in the wardroom used as a hos He continued: In one
apital, killing four officers and twenty-six thip
tuen. Altogether their lost 7 killed certain uumber of men were to be und 105 wounded. left, but in almost a muntinous epirit they came before the Captain and re fused to leave. So eventually they were taken aboard one of the blockships: All the ships started off at great speed under awide, smoke screen, created by craft abead. Meanwhile a heavy bombardment was being carried on by monitors. Emerging from the 'smoke-screen the
· Mole of Zeebruggle would be seen a hundred yards away. We got alongside the Mole and made efforts to grapple batterics pounded her, and she found facility to go to Washington, for they reflect on this. In these critical hours
The Duffeld, waich was following close astern, came up, and in most gallant manner placed her bows against the Findictive and pushed the latter side ways against the Mole. The frix (also got alongside two hundred yards abend of us. There was a heavy swell and the ships were rolling, and our men had to climb along the prows, which was a very perilous task, especially as the ends of these prows were one moment ten feet above the wall and toe next moment crashing vo to the wall itself. The way
AMSTERDAM, April.goth.
will be attributed to the Nationalists. ....
Captain von Solzmann, writing in the. The storming and demolition parties
Vossische Zeitung, anent the attack on on the Mole met with no regist- The Correspondent, says that the no ance apart from the intense and unreconscription stampede has excited an Zeebrugge, describes it as
it was damned mitting fire, the Germans having, on the approach of the ships, retired to the swering heat from the other side, other. plucky" but proceeds to address a re- shove end of the Mole. The demolition wise it is impossible to account for themarkable threat to Holland on the ground parties carried out their work in per marked improvement of Irish recruiting that the attack clearly indicates that ject order, destroying building after building. Meanwhile the block-ships which is accompanying the triumph of neutrals are greatly menuced by the were stealing up to the mouth of the Bolshevism. Moreover, the country is British. He states that Holland can still canal. The artis came fret, steamingfull of Americans, whose rage against the keep out of the wor, but she must realise into a tornado of abells from the shore. batteries. The bulk of the crew bad parochialism of Catholic Ireland is that there is un end to German patience, already been taken off Unfortunately, stimulating corrective. They hope the end when her existence is at stake there her propellor fouled the net of defences Lard Mayor of Dublin will be given every cannot be hesitation. Let Helland and rendered her unmanageable. The shore herself sinking, still a hundred yards from the mouth of the canal. · After Commander drew the charges and sank signalling invaluable information the
her.
THE CANAL BLOCKED.
A motor-launch rescued the crew of the
are confident he would not be permitted
to land,
The Correspondent continues; I em as sound and firm on Home Rule as any outside Ireland, but when I compare the Thets, which last five killed and five conditions now prevailing in Ireland wounded. The Intrepid and Iphigento with those of all other countries in Europe were more successful. They were steered I am impatient. The parrot repetition straight into the canal and beached themis heard on all sides in Ireland that #clves according to arrangement, one on the eastern bank and the other on be The people are kept down by John western bank, where they were blown up Bull, but races, dances and banquets with their sterns stretching well out across the canal. They are now lying continue as usual, food and luxuries are scioss the vanal
position and it
in &
our policy cannot deviate. There is no way out.
GERMAN PRESS AGGRESSIVE.
LATER.
The Handelsbind urges the Government to adhere to its demand that a Dutch
which sand and gravel are put in Belgium Commission shall investigate the use to before allowing their transit. The fact that new facilities are being asked for make the Government cautious. when an offensive is in full swing should
The Tyd says the aggressiveness of the military spirit of the German people are German Press towards Holland and the
causing grave anxiety; nevertheless,
sand and gravel for military purposes. MINISTER RETURNS FROM
BERLIN. A
the men got ashore was almost super is probable the wGER Ley set out to do abundant, and farmers are so prosperous Holland must oppose the transport of
human was not only a case of bare has been accomplished and the canal effee that they hardly know where the money foot Beainen runtung along the deck, bury hecked. A motor-launch brought is coming from,
away the crew. Offisers describe explosion of the old submarine as the greatest they had ever seen. It tore the jetty in half and left a gap of over a Sundred feet T
have sunk a torpedo boat alongside the The claims of one of the launches to jetty are supported by many observers, including the officers of R.M.S. Findie- tio, who had seen her mast and funnel across the Mole and noticed them dis- appear. The North Star, one of the three destroyers which guarded the Vindic tee from enemy destroyers while along side the Mole, lost her way in the smoke screen, but suddenly emerged into the light of the star-shells and was sunk.
The statement in a German communiqu that only a few of the crew could be saved by the Germans is unusually accurate, for the Phoebe, another of these destroy- ers, came up under heavy fire and rescued nearly all the crew, Throughout the operation, the monitors and siege-guns in Flanders heavily bombarded the enemy's
batteries.
UNLUCKY AT OSTEND..
SINN FEINER DEPORTED;
LONDON, April 9th. Mr. Dyramid Lynch, the Sinn Fein Food Director, has been deported from Ireland, probably to America.
LORD WIMBORNE RETIRING.
LONDON, April 26th. It is rumoured that Lord. Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is retiring.
GREAT BRITAIN'S MUNITIONS
MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT.
LONDON, April 25tbut Continuing his speech in the House of Comnious on monitions, Mr. Churchill paid a warm tribute to the work of the three-quarters of a million women muri-, tioners, to whom nine-tenths of the whole
of men carrying heavy accoutrements, koos,Lewis guns, and other things along very narrow and exceedingly unsteady plank. They went along, too, at topmost speed, some 300 or 400 men. They Were across in a few minutes on to the Hole, and immediately had to fight their way along the Mole under cover of our barrages. We were close against the wall, only the upper-part of the funnel, rasts, etc., being shown. The enemy gune were concentrated on these targets Many of our casualties were caused by splinters from the upper works. Twenty five minutes after we were alongside, the block-ships were seen rounding the lighthouse, heading for the entrance to The canal, and we knew that the work of covering their entrance had been complished fifteen minutes later thert was a tremendous explosion at the shore end of the Mola, and we knew that our submarine had got in be tween the piles and the viaduct connecting the Mole and the shore, and we knew, also, that the submarine's crews bad blown up the submarine, cutting off The Mole from the shore. The crew got away in a small motor-skiff, but the propellor was lost and the skiff had to be paddled against the heavy tide under machine gunning from only a few feet range. A large number of Germans were on the viaduct a few feet above the submarine ring machine-guns. Everyone of these Germans went up with the via duct, and the cheer that went up from the men when they saw the terrific explosion was one of the finest things I have ever heard The only question that the wounded men asked was," Have we yon 1 as if it had been a football Batch. One poor fellow was lying on the deck with one arm shot off, but, he waved the other as I passed, saying, The very best Juck to you, sir. The leading block-ship ran aground close off the ens trance to the canal on the edge of the channel and was sunk as far as possible across the channel: She signalled to the other two which went past her in a straight line through and inside the sough the canal entrance
such an operation must be carried guns and shells, but gunners would be an hour after the Vindictive got out at night time, but not late in the the limited factor in artillery develop alongside the situation was this:he night; it must take place at high-water ment. Thus there was ground for be bloczefs had passed in and got to the with the wind from the right quarter and lieving that the German captures of end of their run and they could not do operation cannot be rebearsed beforehand, as some were of the opinion. In conclu a calm sea for small craft. Such an
guns would not be so much use to them more. The viaduct had been blown up and the Mole stormed. It would only
since the essence of it is secrecy.
sion Mr. Churchill said Look where have meant sacrifice of life for the board.
LUCKY AUSTRALIANS. ing party to remain longer, so signala to
you will you will not get at the bottom of the resources of Great Britain. No LONDON, April 26th.
demand is too sudden to be met, no need is too unexpected to be supplied, no strain is too prolonged for the patience of our people, and no suffering can daunt our hearts.”
A change of wind at Ostend served us even worse than at Zeebrugge. Motor- boats had already lit the approaches to and ends of the piers with calcium flares and made a amoke cloud which effectively bid this fact from the enemy. When the wind changed revealing everything to the enemy they extinguished the flares with gunfire. This prevented the block-ships unding the entrance, and as they were scon in a sinking condition they were compelled to sink themselves about four hundred yards east of the piers, motor launches removing their crews-
and t
THE HAGUE, April 26th. The Dutch Minister has arrived from Berlin.
GERMANY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR.
AMSTERDAM, April 26th.
In the Prussian Lower House, Herr Lichnowsky's memoir proved that the Hofer (Socialist) said that Prince
German Government was responsible for the war. The Vice President called Herr Hofer to order.
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
FOOD SITUATION CRITICAL
LONDON, April 20th.
A Russian wireless omncial message states: A notice addressed to Council Deputies in the corn provinces says:-- The 1ood situation in Fetrograd is again critical Unly one day's supplies are available, and urgently neks for help.
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Reuter is informed that a delegation doubtedly our gases killed more Germans of the Finnish Socialist Republic has pro- than German gasses had killed our men,
tested to the Allies as follows:-The but the German irritant, gases inflicted Guard of Finland have publicly declared leaders of the anti-revolutionary White more casualties of a comparatively tra themselves unable to crush the workers sient nature. Our gas maske were the and the Government without the aid of best in the world. We supplied them by German militarista, in return for which the million not only to our own men they have sold the country to Germany, The Admiralty narrative states-The but to the Italians, and had large stores who began military occupation and the difficulty of the operation may be guaged available for the Americans. We were from the fact that the enemy batteries now producing guns as rapidly as they and permitted the systematic murder of desiring to leave the Colony should destruction of the whole labour movement. ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Ariatico. Indian from Zeebrugge to Ostend number at least could be forged. We would have suf-war prisoners and wounded in hospitals spply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE 120 heavy guns, which would be able to ficient guns in 1918 to fire more than all and non-combatant leaders, concentrate on the retiring ships during the ammunition we could manufacture.
STATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1 E daylight to a distance of sixteen miles All the great armies in the later stage of
and 2′21 to 4 PM. daily, This imposed as a condition of success this war would be fully supplied with
THE DIFFICULTY OF THE OPERATION:
withdraw were given and all that could The Australian Navy was represented get away got away. Every man and in-the-read on Zeebrugge by an officer and officer behaved go splendidly that even alevan men, who were mostly on the ships now it's all over the whole thing seems that entered the canal. Bix landed and
น dream!!
fought on the Mole. All twelve escaped, being the only section of their own ship. that was without casualty,
Jike
ADMIRALTY REPORT.
A COMPLETE SUCCESS
Lespon, April 28th.
LONDON, April 28th. The Admiralty has issued a full nar rative of the raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend, which, in its stirring details, A high Naval source informs Reuter's
brings into strong relief both the im
nense difficulties of the task undertaken and the astonishing ingenuity and reck legs daring with which they were over- come. The narrative is full of thrilling episodes, experiences of the individual essels engaged and of the storming party on the Mole. Naturally, the most striking of these are the experiences of the Vindictive, which landed the force on the Mole, and her attendant ferryboats the Iris and Daffodil. As the Vindictive lay alongside the Holz rolling and bumping against its foundation, she was
Agency that the latest reports show that the Zeebrugge operations were completely. successful.
GERMANY'S CENTRAL AFRICA SCHEME.
ZURICH April 25th. Hane Meyer, Professor of Colonial Geography at Leipzig, has published an KAISER ON THE SCENE. important work
on the Portuguese AMSTERDAM, April 25th.
Colonial Empire, in which he demands Kaiser visited Zeebrugge on the 23rd and should seize Portugal's colonies in order According to Berlin telegram the that at the conclusion of peace Germany inspected the scene of the naval opera to build up Germany's African posses tions He gathered an account of the ions. He says: Germany's greatest fight from a captured British captain of Colonial peace aim must be the construe Marines, who said the attack was pre- pare and started on four occasions, but on the four pillars of Togoland Came had to be abandoned owing to the vigil ance of the German outpost boets.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN
HUNGARY.
AMSTERDAM, April 20th. Count Sterenyis attempt to form Hungaria Cabinet has failed.
STROMBOLI ACTIVE.
a
Rove, April 26th. Stromboli is violently erupting and the vineyards on the cast part of the Island bave caught fire.
NEW MINISTER OF AIR FORCES.
LONDON, April 23th. Bir William Weir is mentioned, se saccessor to Lord Rothermore,
THE SILVER MARKET.
Losnoy, April 26th Silver, is quoted at 490 There is a roon, East Africa and South-West, emaliness of supplies and the market in Africa, stretching from the Atlantic to frm,
tion of a united Central Africa, resting
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