THE OSTEND RAID.
SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE.
ENEMY DESTROYER SMASHED ON STOCKS.
WORKSHOPS AND DOCKS DESTROYED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association Beuter’s Telegrams.
LONDON, June 6
The Admiralty states that a photographic record of the reconnaissance over Ostend shows that yesterday’s bombardment either seriously damaged or totally destroyed a majority of the workshops in the dockyards and badly damaged the entrance gates, the dockyards basin, wharf, submarine shelter, also a destroyer, under repair, which was apparently sunk, and several vessels.
A German communique, referring to yesterday’s attack on Ostend, says many Belgian civilians were killed and wounded. It admits some material damage and the loss of a torpedo boat.
REPLY TO GERMAN STORY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received June 8, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The Admiralty, referring to the German communique regarding the Ostend bombardment says:— The photographs obtained show no damaged houses other than dockyard buildings. If Belgians were killed as stated they must have been employed in the dockyards.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4580, 8 June 1917, Page 5
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