INSPIRING INCIDENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 3

INSPIRING INCIDENTS.

THE ZEKBRUGGI? ATTACK

(Reuter's Telegram.)

LONDON, April 25.

Details of the raid disclose many inspiring incidents. An officer said some of the landing party were satisfied when the job was done, but others had their blood up and wanted tp. go to the mainland and fight the German battery. All testify to the gallantry of the commander of H.M.S. Vindictive. Soon after the German batteries opened the . Vindictive's bridge was blown away with everything thereon except the commander, who continued to navigate with the greatest calmness. Econiums are lavished on the crew of the submarine, which was blown up under the viaduct. The officer of a motor boat which accompanied the submarine said : "The submarine attacked the outer side of the mole, and . the Germans apparently thought she had lost her way, and they sent, up a star shell, assisting her to reach her goal. Those nboard saw 200 Germans dancing on the bridge connecting the mole arid shore, thinking they were going to entrap the submarine, and 1 when it was exploded beneath the bridge one can imagine the damage from the fact that for some time afterwards fragments of debris and Huns continued falling on us. As a destroyer then turned her searchlights on us, we torpedoed and sank her.' Another motor boat officer gaid his boat torpedoed a destroyer alongside the wharf, and » second destroyer -was torpedoed by another boat, while a third was rammed and sunk. His boat also torpedoed Captain Fryatt's old steamer Brussels, which tlio Germans had been using as a torpedo training school. The "crews: of the blockships stayed, aboard till the shiflps were almost down] to the .wateriine, when they scrambled aboard the motor boats and returned to their ships just m time, as the vessels j touched bottom as' they left.