GERMANS CHECKMATED

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15034, 4 September 1922, Page 5

GERMANS CHECKMATED

DOGGER BANK RAID. TRAWLER’S LUCKY FIND. AN INTERESTING STORY. (Australian and N.Z- Cable Assn.X '2 Received September 4, 9.45 a.m.PARIS, September 2. An article in the Echo de Paris discloses that an English trawler’s lucky And was responsible for the navy’s ] success in the historic Dogger Bank encounter in January", 1915. A sealed canvas bag, leadweighted, was dis-. j covered in a trawl, and banded to the Admiralty. It. contained a signal code ; which was thrown overboard by the j wrecked steamer Madgeburg. The ; German naval staff, believing that the British battle fleet, after a demonstra-i tion in force off the German coast, would be re-c-oaling, ordered a surprise raid against the small craft, off Dogger Bank. The British picked up and deciphered the wireless orders to Admiral Von Hipper’s cruiser squadron, result- j ing in their sudden confrontation by j Admiral Beatty’s battle cruisers. The j Germans hastily retreated, the Blucher I being sunk with the majority of her crew. The trawler skipper was re- j warded, but he never knew the con- j tents of the bag.