SEA SKIRMISH OFF DUNKIRK
A CUT AND RUN AFFAIR
FRENCH TORPEDO BOAT SUNK
London, April 26. A naval communique states that a squadron of German destroyers bombarded Dunkirk for ten minutes on Wednesday night, while sailing past the port. The coast batteries replied, and British and French patrol boats engaged the enemy, who retired towards Ostend at high speed.' A French tor-pedo-boat- was sunk in tho course of a short engagement. The enemy's losses are not. known.—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn. ' THE HERO OF THE DAY MIDSHIPMAN GYLES OF THE BROKE. London, April 26. Midshipman Gyles, of tho flotilla leader Broke, whose heroism has been described in the cablgrams, is the hero of the day. . He has been sent to hospital. He is nineteen years of agr and was apprenticed in the White Star training ship Mersey- ' He took part in the naval operations and the Australian landing at Gallipoli, where he was twice wounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3065, 28 April 1917, Page 9
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