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THOSE who recall High Wood upon the Somme-and they must be many, as it was after the battles of 1916-may easily figure to themselves the decks of 11.M.S. Vindictive as she lies to- day,
black proble stark, * against the sea haze of the har- bour amid the stripped, trim shapes of the fighting ships which thrang these waters. That wilderness of debria, that litter of the used and broken tools of war, that laylah ruin and that prodigal evidence of death and battle, are as obvious and plenti- ful here as there. The ruined tank nosing at the atout tree which stopped it has its parallel In the flame-thrower hut at the port wing of Vindictive's bridge, its iron sides freckled with rents from machine-gun bullets and shell-splinters; the tall white choss which commemorates the martyrdom of the Londoners is sister to the dingy, pierced White Ensign which floated over the fight of the Zeebrugge Mole.
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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "longkong Telegraph to indicate news which is stiletty copyright under the provisions of the Tolecommuni- cations Ordinance,
Buch news 25 bear the Indication
E received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who ri- Horvo all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without pravioni Arrangement
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Looking aft from the chaos of her wrecked bridge, one secs. snug against their wharf, the heroic bourgeois shapes of the two Liverpool ferry-boats (their still quarters 'captains' labelled "Ladies Only") Iris and
•Deffodil, which shared with honours and wurdours of the fight. The epic their achievement shapes Itself in the light of that view across the scarred and littered decks, in that environment of Krey water and great still ships. Their objectives were the cantal of Zeebrugge and the
harbour to the entrance Ontend their, and those of five other veteran and obsolete cru gers and a mosquito fleet of des- motor-launches and troyers, coastal motor-boats. Three of the cruisers, Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis.. each duly packed with concrete and with mines It is necessary to have a strong
attached to her bottom for the stormach to read without a feeling of "nuusca-the-revelations-of-Nazi.
purpose of sinking her, Merri- eruelty and brutality contained in mac-fashion, in the neck of the the "Papers concerning the Treat-
ennal, were aimed at Zeebrugge; ment of German Nationals in Ger-
two others, similarly prepared, many 1938-1939," a copy of which
were directed at Ostend. The has just been received in Hongkong.
function of Vindictive, with It would have been thought incredi ble that such naked savagery could her ferry-boats, was to attack Mole half-moon the exist in this century among a
great civilised people who boast of their which guards the Zeebrugge - "Kultur." But the evidence is both
Canal. land bluejackets and circumstantial and accredited by his
marines upon it, destroy what Majesty's Consuls in various Germon
stores, guns, and. Germans she cities, as well as by reputable wit
could find, wnd generally create nesses of the foul deeds of which
diversion while the block- themselves been have
the they victims. So horrible are these dis- ships ran in and sank them- closures of the spirit that actuates-selves in their appointed place. the Nazi creed that the Foreign Office have been reluctant to publish them, for fear of embittering re- lations. That reluctance has been
the however, by
!!!- overcome, scrupulous propaganda which the German Government ure sprending here and abroad, making against the Empire outrageously false charges of atrocities. After reading of what those who make those charges are themselves capable-actions "re-
miniscent of the darkest ages in the history of man"-public opinion, the world over, will be able to judge for itself. The documents now publish- ed all relate to the events of last year or this, and they show, there fore. "that neither the consolidation of the regime nor the passage' of time has in any way mitigated the savagery."
Most of these reports and test!- monies relate to the conditions en- dured in the concentration camp ot Buchenwald, near Weimar, where the august Goethe sleeps. In this camp have been herded thousands of Jews and non-Jews, guarded by S.S men and overseered by professional criminals. Tho unhappy creatures condemned to this camp have fourt themselves 'subjected to a system of deliberate torture of.mind and body, from which the only deliverance has been death. This barbarous woge has not been the mere sadistic caprice of individuals; it has been the treat- ment ordered by the highest author- ties, who have apparently experi enced a nenulish delight in inflicting Ignominy and suffering on
their
Vice-Admiral Keyes, in the des- troyer Warwick, commanded the operation.
There had been two previous attempts at the attack, capable of being pushed home if wen- ther and other conditions had served. The night of the 22nd offered nearly all the required conditions, and at some filteen miles off Zeebrugge the ships took up their formation for the attack. Vindictive, which had been towing Iris and Daffodil, cast them off to follow under their
Intrepid. stem; own Iphigenia, and Thetis slowed three first down to give the time to get alongside the Mole; Sirius
Brilliant shifted and their course for Ostend; and the great swarm of destroyers and motor craft sowed them- selves abroad upon their multi- farious particular duties. The night was overcast and there was a drift of haze; down the coast a great sdanchlight swung its beams to ind fro; there was a small wind and a short Ben
THE ADMIRALTY announces on Wednesday that British warships, pro- ceeding in the face of intense fire, had succeeded in entering Zeebrugge harbour and had blocked the main channel with concrete block ships.
The true story of this exploit, which parallels the Epic of Zeebrugge in the last war, probably will not be told for some months. Here is the story of the first attack on Zeebrugge ---one of the most daring naval actions of the World War.
her
made; it is marvellous that any occupant of it should have sur- vived a minute, so riddled, and shattered is it. Officers of Iris, which was in trouble ahead of
rolled the smoke-screen, cloak of invisibility, wrapped about her by the amali craft. This was a device of Wing- Commander Brock, R.N.A.S.,
without which," acknowledges-Vindictive, describe Captain Carpenter as "handling her the Admiral in Command, "the
like a picket-boat." operation could not have been north-east conducted." The wind moved the volume of it shorewards ahead of the ships: beyond it, the distant town and Its defenders were unsuspici- ous; and it was not till Vin- dictive, with her bluejacketa and marines standing ready for the landing, was close upon the Mole that the wind Julled and came away again from the southwest, sweeping back the amoke-screen and laying her bare to the eyes that looked seaward,
It
There was moment im- mediately afterwards when it seemed to those in the ships cus if the dim coast and the hidden harbour exploded into light. A star shell soared aloft, then a
green
to
Vindictive was fitted along the port side with a high false deck, whence ran the eighteen brows, or gangways, by which the storming and demolition panties were to lend. The men avere gathered in readiness on the main and lower decks, whilo Colonel Elliot, who was to read the Marines, waited on the falec deck just balft the bridge, and Captain H. C. Halahan, who commanded the
bluejackets,
was amidships. The gabigways were lowered, and scraped and rebounded upon the high para- pet of the Mole as Vindictive rolled; and the word for the assault Mad not yet been given when both leaders were killed, "Colonel Elliot by a shell" and " Captain Halahan by the machine-gun fire which swept the decks. The same shell that killed Colonel Elliot also did fearful execution in the forward- Stokes Mortar Battery.
Kanigways,
"The men were magnificent." Every officer bears the same testimony. The mere landing perilous on the Mole was business; it involved a pasargo across the crashing, splintering a drop over the parapet into the field of fire of the German machine-guns which awept its length, and a further drop of some sixteen feet to the surface of the Mole itself. Many were killed and were wounded as they crowded
but. to the gangways; nothing hindered the orderly and speedy landing by every gangway.
score of star ahells; the wavering beams of the searchlights swung round und settled to a glare: the wildfire of gun flashes leaped against the sky; strings of luminous
bends shot aloft, hung and sank; and the darkness of the night was sup- planted by the nightmare day- light of battle fires. Guns and machine-guns along the Mole and batteries ashore woke life, and it was in a gale of shelling that Vindictive laid her nose against the thirty-foot high concrete side of the Mole, let go an anchor, and signed to Daffodil to shove her stern in. Irls went ahond and endeavour-
up ed to get alongside likewise.
The fire, from the account of everybody concerned, was While ships plunged Such intense.
and rolled beelde the Mole in that
on unexpected end of sea, Vindletivo with her greater draught larring against the foundation of the Mole with every plunge, they were swept diagonally by, machine-gun fire from both ends of the Mole and by. heavy batteries ashore. Commander A. F. B. Carpenter (now Captain) conned Vindic tive from her open bridge till her stern was laid in, when ho in the took up his position flame-thrower hut on the part It is to this hut that side."
been referenca has already
From Vindictive's bridge, as she headed in towards the Mole with her faithful ferryboats at her heels, there was scarcely a glimmer of light to be seen shorewards. Ahead of her, as- captives. Ingenuity has been strain aho drove through the water, ed to invent tortures. The elemen- | ---- tary decencies of life have beens the peril that now overshadows the denied; impossibly arduous taske civilised world. Such is the destiny have been Imposed; punishments, of of every free people who fall under which flogging is the least severe, this fell. Infernal sway. One ex- | have been multiplied,
prisoner in the Buchenwald camp No wonder that one of these official teils of how, after his release, he witnesses, who has lived among the was interviewed in Berlin by a group Germans for eight years and who of officials of the regular police had been thinking that he understood force, and how his atory of what he them, confesses that recent ck- had endured, shocked them. periences have shown him a facet conditions, they sald, were revolting of the German character which he and a scandal; which shows had not suspected. Ne wonder, as there are still in Germany people of another witness welies, "In present-decent, bumane instincts. But such. day Germany no word strikes greater people are not in control. It is the terror in people's hearts than the authors and devisers of the Buchen- name. Buchenwald." Nor were the wald barbarities who rule the roost conditions any less horrible in the now in Germany. What is done is concentration camp at Dachau I done not only with their consent, such besilal cruelty had been actunted but by their express orders; and the by the passions of a bitter war it black infamy of which they bear the could never be palliated. But what gullt will never be effaced in living is to be said of such on organised memory. The outside world has orgy of inhumanity, against fellow only to read these papers to realise countrymen, who have offered. no that it is not merely democracy or resistance: or provocation, in a time political liberty that is at stake in not of defeat or even of struggle, but the present struggle. It la civilian of bloodless triumph? Such the Lion itself. It is the very dignity of vile and ovil heart of Nuzidom, Seth the human race.
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Lieutenant II. T. C. Walker had his arm carried away by a shell on the upper dæk and lay in the darkness while the him parties trod storming under. He was recognised and. dragged, aside by the, Com mander. He rained his remain.
"Good. Ing arm in greeting. luck to you.", he called, as the ront of the stormers hastened by: "good luck."
The lower deck was a shum bles as the Commander made the rounds of his ship; yet those wounded and dying rails ed themselves to cheer as he
OF
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The crew of mtade his Lour. the howitzer which mounted forward had all been
second crew killed;
WAN destroyed Akewise; and even then a third crew was taking
In over the gun.
the stern who cabin a firework expert, Ind never been to even before one of Captain Brock's
firing steadily ployees was great illuminating rockets out of scuttle to shov up the lighthouse on the end of the Mole to the block shipe and their escort.
Her
The Daffodil, after aiding to berth Vindictive, should have: proceeded to land her own men,' but mow Commander Carpenter ordered her to remain as sho bows against was, with her Vindictive's quarter, pressing the latter ship into the: Mole, Normally, Daffodil's boilers de- volop eighty pounds pressure of steam per inch; but now, for this particular task, Artlicer Engineer Sutton, in charge of hundred tham, maintained a and sixty pounds for the whole 19 holding porlod that she Vindictive to the Mole.. caualties, owing to her position during the fight, were small-
man killed and eight wounded,
them among Commander, Lieutenant Campbell, who was struck lu the right eye by a shell splinter, Iris had troubles of her own. Her first attempts to make fust to the Male ahead of Vindic -tive failed, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the Two officers, Lieut- parapet.
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parapet trying to Krapnels fast till killed and fell down between the ship and the wall. mander Valentino Gibbs had both lega shot away and died Lieutenant next morning. Spencer, R.NR., though wound- el, took command and refused to be relieved.
Iris was obliged at last to change her position and fall in astern of Vindictive, and suffer. ed very heavily from the fire A single big shell plunged through the upper deck and Lurst below at a point where fifty-six marines were waiting the order to go to the gangways, Forty-nine were killed and the Beven wounded. ramaining Another shell in the ward-room, which was serving as sick bas, klad four officers and twenty- Her total casualties six men. were eight officers and ̈'sixty::
and three nine men killed officers and a hundred and two men wounded.
The storming and demolition parties upon the Mole met with no registance from the Germans, other than the intense and un- remitting fire. The geography of the great Molo, with its rail- way line and its many build- ings, hangars, and store shids, was alrondy well-knowi, nd.. the demolition parties moved to their appointed work in perfect order. One after another the buildings burst into flame or
and crumpled split
the dynamite went off.
A bombing party, working up towards the Mole extension in search of the enemy, destroyed several machine-gun emplace ments, but not a single prisoner them. It appears rewarded that upon the approach of the ships, and with the opening of the fire, the enemy simply re-
rod and contented themselve with bringing machine-guns to the shore end of the Mole. And while they worked and des troyed, the covering party bolaw the pandpet could see in tho harbour, by the tight of the German star shells, the shapes of the block ships stealing in and out of their own smoke and making for the mouth of the canal.
Thetis came first,, ateaming Into a tornado of shell from the groat batteries ashore. Alt ber crow, have a remnant who're- mained to steam har in and sink hor, had already been taken of her by the ubiquitous motor
but the launches,
remnant spared hands enough to keep her. four guns going.
It was to-2 show hora
tho rond to Intrepid and Iphigenia, who followed.
She cleared the string of armed barges which defends the channel from the tip of tho Mole, but had the ill-fortune to foul one of her propellers upon the net defence which Tank It on the shore side. The propeller gathered in the net and rendered her practically, unmanageablo: the shore batteries found her. and pounded her unrernittingly: Turn to Page, 9. Third Columne.
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