GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS SUNK.
.: BY BRITISH DESTROYERS •' '- ' * RUpiNG FIGHT IN THE NORTH SEA i . THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUNKIRK ~ A NEW SUGGESTION . BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL ■*' / ■ . . . . . . British destroyers have been in action. One has met and been ' Bunk hy a pirate submarine; four others sighted and pursued two . German torpedo boats, and' after a running fight sank them. The pirates have, heen taking toll of merchant shipping once more, and have accounted for several steamers. From the Western front, there is a quickening 6tory of Belgian gallantry against odds; a German deserter to the French lines has told a sensational story to the effect that the shells which fell on Dunkirk came from the throat of a monster naval gun, erected by Krupp's, ahd calculated to throw its projectiles a distance of 23} miles. ■ ; .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 5
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132GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS SUNK. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 5
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