GERMAN DESTROYER RAID
EIGHT SMALL VESSELS SUNK
ENEMY ESCAPE ,WITHOUT ENGAGEMENT
LONDON, 15th February. Heavy gunfire was heard off the Kent coast early this morning. . The enemy's destroyers came into the Channel and attacked our drifters in the j darkness." Several English bodies have been landed. (PUBLISHED IN THE. TIMES.) ■' . ■ LONDON, 16th February, "uEesidents of the South-east Coast -were awakened by violent gunfire in the Channel, which continued' for an hour. The gun-flashes were plainly visible. ! The Dover patrol engaged the enemy, which was believed to belong'to the German Keebyugge flotilla. The men belonging to the trawlers and.mine-sweepers, j though, overwhelmed, behaved with great gallantry. Two survivors escaped in a boat from a blazing drifter, and returned when the destroyers disappeared, ; quenched the fire, and brought the drifter back to port. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND BEUTEK.) ; I LONDON, 15th February. The Admiralty reports : A flotilla of large enemy destroyers made a swift raid. sA 1 o'clock in the morning upon our patrol forces in the Straits of Dover, and sank one trawler and seven drifters which were hunting for submarines. The destroyers returned northward rapidly before -we were able to engage them.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 7
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