RECENT DESTROYER CHASE
• FANCIFUL ■GERMAN' STORY. (Australian end N.Z. Cable Association.) and Beater. J LONDON, May 12. A German naval official message says : German light forces in Hoofden on May 10th sighted at 5.40 in the morning, eastward of the N'pordhinder lightship., three small modern English .'cruisers and four destroyers. An engagement de•velpped in; the direction of the Flemish coast, and continued to Thornton- Bank, where the enemy, held - back. Our.iartillery fire caused an explosion on an enemy destroyer, which- sank.- . "We advanced on'the-enemy, who went,off. at full speed towards niistant cruisers, the, enemy disappearing northwards. We sviffered neither damage not losses The British Admiralty asserts that..-the facts published on May IGth' are unaltered by. the German,, attempt a<t>.. distortion. , • ....
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Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 5
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