"ANOTHER GERMAN VICTORY"

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 190, 23 August 1916, Page 5

"ANOTHER GERMAN VICTORY"

CANAL' FLEET ESCAPES WITHOUT .FIGHTING.

TURNS TAIL AND MAKES FOR

HOME

NO STOMACH FOR BRITISH

BULLDOGS

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association ■■■' (Reooi"ed Aug. 23, S-00-a.m.) - ' LONDON, Augn22. • The Daily Telegraph's RotterrJam eorresporident states. "The;; German High 'Sea Fleet won another groat victory; perhaps even . greater than Jutland, , because it completely succeeded in avoiding, an ■encounter with the , British forces; but ithey can't claim another; victory, because* scores of Dutch sskippers saw what happened. These trained sailors .witnessed all tlw movements of the German squadron, and their; reports .prove, conclusively that.there is only one fact oi" importance-—-namely, that on the- first news of the .British 'Fleet's- appearance the Germans turned, tail and went full X^eecl for home. '.'Skippers say they sighted the German Grand Fleet of at loast sixty vessels of- all descriptions at nine in the.v. morning, guided carefully" by three Zeppelins. They, saw the same fleet at six in the evening,-with the attendant airships, steaming furiously eastward. ' "What happened in the meantime is-clear from reports by other Dutch Captains; who feaw at least one] British squadron. fit nv<K. o'clock in, the afternoon'- inticli/further souththan^. the Germans' six o'clock position. . The British were then heading .north, towards the enemy-' The Dutch.-'also saw throe" Zeppelins coming from /he north, which, after they shotted the British, immediately iptumed to- , wards tha 'Germans. . Half an hour later .the High Canal Elect was madly retreating towards its base. No more • was; of the German warships in the North Sea, but tne Dutch'saw British squadrons ■ scour<ing the:seas niany hours later."