GERMAN ACCOUNT OF THE NAVAL RAID.
CLAIM TO HAVE SUNK DESTROYER AND PATROL BOATS. CREW OF THE KING STEPHEN MADE PRISONERS. (Received April 27. 11 D.m.) Amsterdam, April 26. A German communique states: "After bombarding with good success Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, our warships shelled the enemy's airmen, small cruisers, and destroyers, causing a serious fire on one cruiser and sinking a destroyer and two patrol boats. The latter included the King Stephen, which refused to rescue the crew of the Zeppelin Ll9. We made prisoners of the King Stephen's crew. Our ships returned undamaged. We sank a British auxiliary off Zeebrugge, capturing the crew." The King Stephen is the trawler which sighted the Zeppelin Ll9 in ft sinking condition in the North Sea. The skipper refused to rescue the crew on ttie ground that they outnumbered his own crew, and, being armed, might have seized the trawler and taken it to Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 5
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153GERMAN ACCOUNT OF THE NAVAL RAID. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 5
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