REPORTED ACTION OFF HELIGOLAND.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14196, 7 June 1916, Page 5

REPORTED ACTION OFF HELIGOLAND.

GERMAN TORPEDOER SQUADRON

DESTROYED

(Received June 6, 10.55 p.m.)

London, June 5,

Forty naval xoen were buried in an East Coast town. There was an impressive scene.

Some of the enemy's light ships were blown right out of the water by our shells. One .could see bits of masts, mechanism, and men's bodies hurled high in the air. The water was soon thick with debris and bodies.

The "Warrior's survivors relate that Leading-Stoker Allen, after the fires were drawn, pJuckily ran back and turned off the main steampipe, averting air Explosion which would have wrecked the ship.

It is report©;! that British light cruisers destroyed a squadron of torpedoers near Heligoland.

Our destroyers were arcajdng. They were bound to suffer con sideling the risks they took. When ordered to attack they dashed off at thirty knots, raced to within thirty yards of the biggest ships*, and discharged their torpedoes. One of the most gallant was the Onslaught, commanded by Commander Perry Hughes Onslow, one of the most popular men in the service. Singlehanded she attacked and sank a battleship.

An hour later, when she was coming out of action, the Onslaught was hit by two shells. A fragment struck Commander Onslow in.the stomach. When lie was bandaged lie &aid, "I think I will go to sleep now," and died.

Nothing could be finer than the way Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot went in with the Defence, Warrior, and Black Prince. He attacked -unsupported the whole German fleet, kept them at bay for a long time and did tremendous

damage