AMAZING PLUCK.
'PH.D.'S AT JUTLAND. LONDON, December 11. Von ilase, formerly a gunnery officer on tbo Derfliingen, in an article on the battle of Jutland in the “ Su'nday Times,” says The short northern night, lasting from 11 p.m. to 2 n.rn. began. it must to admitted that the English destroyers returned again and again to the attack with amazing pluck. Throughout the night o-.,r searchlights flashed, lighting" up the destroyers rushing to the attack. “ Wo were unable to distinguish details, but one blazing, red-hot vessel after another passed us. Wo must have seen quite ten of these dash by, and watched them with mixed feelings' not knowing whether tfiey were English oi Merman. “ A ‘ s ino f|«»g broke a Trig ship drove pa,i; us—the English cruiser Rlaek 1 rmce. The whole ship was red-hot, and there could not Have been a soul alive on board for some time.'’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16305, 21 December 1920, Page 7
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148AMAZING PLUCK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16305, 21 December 1920, Page 7
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