BOMBAROMENT OF ZEEBRUGGE
j.MOST FORMIDABLE OF THE WAR. } LARGE FLEET ENGAGED. I (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' LONDON, June 5. ■ The Exchange Telegraph Agency's j. Flushing correspondent says the naval | bombardment was the most formidable of the war. It continued for a hundred minutes. | A large fleet with heavy artillery participated, and explosions and fires followed. The German batteries vigorously replied . A flotilla of German toi-pedoers were anchored in Zeebrugge harbour, which suffered, severely. According to a German deserter, Zeebrugge is iu .ruins.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 June 1917, Page 5
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