DETAILS OF THE NAVAL FIGHT
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE DERFFLINGER AND SEYDLITZ SERIOUSLY DAMAGED SEVERE FIGHTING IN FRANCE THE ALLIES REGAIN LOST GROUND SANGUINARY ENCOUNTER AT GIVENCHY THE "SCRAP OF PAPER" INCIDENT SIR EDWARD GREY ON GERMAN CHANCELLOR
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 26. The Admiralty announces that all ships and destroyers returned safely. The Indomitable towed the Lion, whose forward compartments were flooded by a shell below the water-line. The Liberty towed the Meteor (a destroyer), which was disabled; Doth vessels were guarded by strong escorts. The destroyer's repairs will be speedily effected. The total casualties are:— Lion—Seventeen wounded. Tiger—One officer and nine men killed; three officers and eight men wounded. Meteor—Four killed and one wounded.
PERTH, January 27.
A wounded French reservist, invalided home to the New Hebrides from Ypres, estimates that France will haive 6,000,000 men in the spring.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16293, 28 January 1915, Page 5
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