THE RATS' NEST AT ZEEBRUGGE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 255, 16 July 1918, Page 5

THE RATS' NEST AT ZEEBRUGGE

E WHY IT WAS ATTACKED TO ARREST THE TERRIFIC SHIPPING LOSSES ir London, July 13. . Staff-Paymaster Hughes, in a speeoh ! in London, said the plans for attacking . Zeebruggo wore thought out six months ' ago. Tho expedition started twice previously, but had to return. German submarines, up to the end of 1916, had ''_ sunk a million tons of British shipping; s they sank sis million tons in 1917. c During those months of sorrow ships wero going down like autumn loaves, and that j was why tho Zoabrugge nest was attack. B ed. There were three hnndred warships c m the Navy proper at the outbreak of l war; now thero were 3500. A Clyde shipyard had recently launched its forty-sec- _ ond warship in the war period.—Aus.- [ N.Z ; Cablo Assn. • LIARS AJISSASSINS , HOW A PIRATE CREW WERE CONVICTED OF BRUTALITY. London, July IS. An osample of German brutality was narrated by Staff-Paymaster Hughes in a speech' in London. A British patrol boat in tho Atlantic discovered a derelict • U-boat, and rescued the crow. Before blowing up tho vessel tho commander asked if all was safe. Tho submarine > sonnnander replied "Yes," and called tho . roll, and all tho men answered. When i they pushed oft' preparatory to dropping •' a depth chargo, tho commander of the i patrol boat heard a tapping noise, which i continued, in spito of repeated assurl anew that all had been saved. Tho I Bntisli commander did not believe tho i German. Ho searched tho U-boat and : found four British seamen tied up.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.