CLOAKING A DISASTER
WHAT HAPPENED AT ZEEBRUGGE ByTelegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. October 4, 0.15 a.m.) .' Amsterdam, October 3. The Germans 'recently shut "off Zeebrugge from the outsido world not only to hide the results of the British bombardment, but to conceal a calamity which occurred on Saturday while the coast was plunged in total .darkness aa a protection from aviators, and. the trains between Heyst and Zeebruggo ran without lights. Tho authorities had opened a bridge to passing ships when a tramcaiy unaware of this) ran into a canal. Forty German officers and 188 soldiers were on board, hud the majority of them wero drowned. '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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104CLOAKING A DISASTER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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