MISSING DESTROYER LAST SEEN FIGHTING FOUR SHIPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 30 October 1916, Page 5

MISSING DESTROYER LAST SEEN FIGHTING FOUR SHIPS

GERMAN LOSSES IN DESTROYERS NOW TOTAL THIRTY. FLOTILLA WORTH £1,000,000 RISKED IN VAIN ADVENTURE. Australian and N.Z. Calsio. (Received 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. No further details have been published regarding the defeat of the attempt by German destroyers to hold up the cross-channel transport service. The Admiralty desires that the exact locality should not be mentioned. When the Flirt, was last seen, she was attacking four enemy ships. The fight occurred between midnight and one o'clock. It is understood that the German flotilla, which usually comprises 10 boats, came from Zeebrugge. Germany's lo&s of two destroyers brings the total of her loss in destroyers to 30, reckoning nine as having been lost in the Jutland battle. The result of the fight shows that Admiral Bacon's Dover patrol is fully awake. Since early on Friday morning a terrible gale, has been raging in the Channel. The Daily Telegraph says the raid was the most ambitious of the kind since the opening of the war. Germany employed 10 of her new speediest and best-gunned destroyers in order to make certain of achieving success. She risked vessels of the vahie of £1,000,000, and the adventure merely resulted in the destruction of an empty transport.