FIVE GERMAN DESTROYERS OUT
CAUGHT AND BOMBED BY NAVAL AIRSHIPS
FOUR DIRECT HITS MADE BY THE AVIATORS
ONLY FOUR DESTROYERS RETURN TO THEIR BASE
(High Commissioner's Cable.)
LONDON, 10.25 a.m. Wednesday
The Admiralty reports that five enemy destroyers were seen on Monday between Blankenburg and Zeebrugge, five miles off the coast. Three naval air machines dropped sixteen bombs, obtaining four direct hits, whereupon the destroyers scattered, but-the machines followed and dropped 32 more bombs. The leading destroyer was seen to have listed to port and remained stationary. After all the bombs had been dropped four destroyers returned to Zeebrugge. It is considered most probable that the other destroyer was sunk.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13469, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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