GROWING POWER OF NAVY.
ATTACK ON ZEEBRUGGE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 14. Staff-Paymaster Hughes, in a speech in London, said that the plans for attacking Zeebrugge were thought of six months ago. The expedition started twice previously, but had to return. German submarines to the end of 1916 sank a million British tons, while they sank six millions in 1917, and during those months of sorrow ships were going down like autumn leaves; that was why the Zeebrugge nest was attacked. There were 300 warships in the navy proper at the outbreak of the war; now there were 3500. A Clyde shipyard recently launched its forty-second warship in the war period.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16903, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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