THE SHELLING OF YARMOUTH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 5

THE SHELLING OF YARMOUTH

THREE GERMAN DESTROYERS COME OUT FLYING SHOTS ON A DARK NIGHT London, January 18. The bombardment of Yarmouth wa.< apparently the work of three destroyers The night was wild and dark, and tin visibility so bad friat the British patro vessels were unable to see more thai 300 yards. The enemy destroyers rar at full speed past Yarmouth, and firet indiscriminately.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablt Assn. ; ATTACKS ON" HOSPITAL SHIPS A THIN EXCUSE. London, January 18. The Admiralty reports: "A German wireless message states: 'The English themselves, according to the "Daily Chronicle" of December 11, admit that hospital ships are iised to transport troops. , ! "Tin's so-called admission was a deliberate false statement by a Miss Ethel Marsh, for which she was sentenced at Portsmouth to a month's imprisonment. The public should know on f which the German war on the wounded is admittedly based."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutcr. THE SINKING OF THE HOSPITAL SHIP REWA NO DOUBT ABOUT THE U-BOAT. 1 London, January 18. The naval authorities are satisfied beyond doubt that the sinking of thu hospital ship Bewa was due to a tor-pedo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.