RAID ON DOVER.
[GERMAN SUBMARINE ATTACK. London, Wednesday. Two submarines endeavoured to enter Dover Harbour, but the batteries repulsed them. It is reported that both were su k. Many rumours are current that airships have been sighted |in the Channel. The attack was made in darkness. Thß searchlighs round the harbour revealed the submarines, and the big guns on the heights behind the castle twice fired at an interval of ten minutes. Directly after searchlights from hostile aircraft swept the skies but they disappeared in an hour. Later information indicates that the guns did not succeed in sinking the submarines.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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100RAID ON DOVER. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 737, 16 January 1915, Page 5
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