NAVAL OPERATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1918, Page 3

NAVAL OPERATIONS.

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THE GERMAN WAY. LONDON, July 13th. j Staff Paymaster Hughes at London : narrated an example of German fcru- ! tality. A British patrol boat in the | Atlantic discovered a derelict U. boat and rescued the crew. Beforo blowing up the vessel the Commander if all were safe and the submarine commander replied “yes." He called the roll and all answered. When they pushed off preparatory to dropping a depths charge, the commander of the patrol boat heard a tapping which continued. Despite repeated assurances that all were saved tho British commander didn’t believe the German and

searched the U-boat, and found fou British seamen tied up. NAVAL MATTERS! 'Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.in.) LONDON, July 13. Staff-Paymaster Hughes' in a speech at London said plans for attacking Zeebruggo .were thought out sis months ago. The expedition started twice previously, but had to return. German submarines in 1916 sunk a million British tons and sank six milI lions in 1917. During those months oi I sorrow ships were going down like autumn leaves. That was why the Zee brugge nest was attacked. There were three hundred warships in the navy proper at the outbreak of the war, and there were now 3300. Clyde shipyards recently launched the forty-second war- ' ship in the war period.