NIGHT ATTACK ON DOVER HARBOUR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 5

NIGHT ATTACK ON DOVER HARBOUR

' GERMAN SUBMARINES SHELLED ENEMY'S AIRCRAFT ALSO APPEAR By Telefraph-Press 'Afisoototdon-CoDjrielit m , . , London, January 13. Two submarines endeavoured to enter Dover Harbour, but the' batteries repulsed them. It was reported that both were sunk, but a. later message denies this.' The attack was made in darkness. The searchlight revealed the submarines, and the big guns on the heights behind the castle twice fired 1 at an interval of ten minutes. ' • Directly afterwards, Beaichlights from hostile'aircraft swept the skies. Tie lights disappeared half an hour later. There are many rumours that airships have been sighted in the Channel. GERMAN PORTS IN A STATE OF SIEGE. (Reo. January 15, 0.20 a.m.) Copenhagen, January 14. Hamburg, Lubcck, and Cuxhaven have been declared in a 6tato of siege: No reason is assigned. It is supposed to bo a precautionary measure against tho possibility of a British attack. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON THE SUBMARINE PERIL. (Rec, January 14; 9.45 p.m.) .i* London, January 14. , Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to the Press, says that th© British battleship Formidable was lost under conditions tho repetition of which after the loss of tho Aboukir and the Cressey he had thought would have been impossible. In both cases the ships were sent to waters infested by submarines, and without the protection of destroyers. ' The efficacy of such protection, he adds, is' shown in the fact that the enemy's submarines were unable to injure the British squadron, off the Belgian coast. It was unpardonable that officers and crews should be so exposed.