ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 February 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED. Received 8.45. LONDON, Feb 17. Several houses were damaged by tjfie Dover bombardment. A girl was killed and her sisters and two brothers were injured. CHARTERING BRAZIL VESSELS. | Received 10.5. - •'.- j I ; A ' PARIS, Feb 17. \ The Budget Committee has voted • one hundred and ten millions for chartering Brazilian vessels. RAID ON DOVER. ■ I ..ENEMY DESTROYERS ATTACK 1 BRITISH PATROL. ;■■;, -LONDON, February 16. The Admiralty reports: A flotilla; olf large, enemy tidtestrrtyers made al swift raid at 1 o'clock this morning on our patrol forces in Dover Straits* They sank a trawler and seven drifterg which were hunting for a submarine. The destroyers returned northward rapidly before we were able to engage them. —— i ENEMY SUBMARINE'S RAID. LONDON, February 16. The Press Bureau reports: An enemy submarine bombarded Dover afc 12.10 Ih'is 'morning', fend, -discharged thirty rounds in three minutes. ' One' child was killed, and three men. one woman and three children injured, Suglt damage fas'done to houses. BRITISHERS' GREAT GALLANTRY LONDON, February 16. Residents on the south-east coast; were awakened by violent gunfire ini the Channel, It continued for an hour* Gunflashes were plainly visible. A 1 Dover patrol engaged the enemy, which are believed to belong to the Zeebrugge flotilla. The men belonging to the trawlers and though, overwhelmed, behaved with! great gallantry. Two survivors es« caped in a boat from a blazing drifter, returned when the destroyers disappeared, quenched the fire and brought the drifter to port. Heavy gunfire was heard off the Kentish coast in the early morning. Enemy destroyers came into the Channel and attacked drifters in the darkness. Several English bodies have come to land.