NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENT AGAINST BIG ODDS.
TWO BRITISHERS VANQUISH SIX GERMANS.
DEEDS OF HEROISM.
TREACHERY OF THE! GERMANS
SPLENDID EXPLOITS OF ANTRAOTIO HERO.
Australian and N.Z. Oabln Association.)
i ■'•: ," .LONDON; April ,26. si vTlie ..sjEfcegs^, B.ure^u detAi&i^ -of the reeent'ilraid ' on '-Dover, wjiioh- show that six* German destroyers participated. The British destroyer: leaders ' Swift and Broke, when patrolling the Channel, sighted the enemy at 12.40 m the moming, stealing at high- speed. The night was calm and intensely dark. i The rival ships were within six hun-' dred yards When first seen simultaneously.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14283, 27 April 1917, Page 3
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