NAVAL OPERATIONS.
VIOLENT GUNFIRE
f AUSTRALIAN it- N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION 1 A- KBUTKH.j AMSTERDAM March 2. A telegram from' Vlieland reports a naval engagement on Thursday night. There was violent gunfire oil Vlieland during the night. A raft with five German sailors was picked up. Other rafts with Germans aboard were seen floating off the Coast; also much debris. A SUGGESTED EXPLANATION. THE HAGUE, March 3. A small enemy • naval craft struck mines off Vlieland during German efforts to save the crew of a .boat that capsized. There were five survivors. Latest -telegrams suggest that . a German torpedoer and some minesweepers ran into a minefield and were blown up.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19180304.2.27
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1918, Page 3
Word Count
109NAVAL OPERATIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1918, Page 3
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in