OFFICIAL ADMIRALTY REPORT.
Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter.
(Received April 20, 1.30 p.m.)
LONDON, April 19. The Admiralty reports: British monitor® on Wednesday night bombarded' Ostend and the batteries in the vicinity. Owing to bad weather it has not yet been possible to obtain accurate information regarding the results. The enemy batteries replied without hitting our, ships. One or two enemy destroyers yesterday morning fired in the direction of Adenkirke and then retired quickly. Our destroyers on March 82, during a sweep of Heligoland Bight, captured and sank three armed outpost trawlers, making prisoners of the crews.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 April 1918, Page 7
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97OFFICIAL ADMIRALTY REPORT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 April 1918, Page 7
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