DESTROYERS IN ACTION
SEVEN ENEMY VESSELS SUNK BRITISH CASUALTIES / LONDON CRITICISMS OF - . WILSON'S SPEECH TJiero ib' news io-day of fighting ffetireen British and German tie-- : stroyers in. the southern part of tha Nerth Sea. Apparently the Germans attempted a raid oil th© Oh a 1111/7) communications. They were at all events defeatedl aiid scattered. 'According to one' message,seven German destroyers were sunk, But detailed reports account as .■vet for only, two, one of them sunk and! the other driven, badly damaged, into the Dutch port of Ymuiden. One British destroyer was lost. In a late message it is stated that the "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam 1 correspondent is certain that seven German ships were sunk. There is not much news of events on land. It is suggested in one message that the enemy is preparing for an offensive against Italy, hut other reports indicate that the suggestion is not taken very seriously.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 5
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151DESTROYERS IN ACTION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 5
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