THE GERMAN FLEET.
ATTACK ON LOWESTOFT. DRIVEN OFF BY BRITISH VESSELS. London, April 25. A German battle-cruiser squadron attacked Lowestoft at dawn. Two people were killed. The local naval forces drove off (he enemy. We are chasing the squadron. The Admiralty reports: —At halfpast. 4 Ibis morning a cruiser squadron, accompanied hy light cruisers and destroyers, appeared oIT Lowestoft. The local naval forces engaged it for twenty minutes, and it returned towards Germany, chased by light cruisers and destroyers, A man and a woman were killed ashore, and the material damage done was insignificant. Two British cruisers and destroyers were hit, hut none was sunk.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1543, 27 April 1916, Page 3
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105THE GERMAN FLEET. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1543, 27 April 1916, Page 3
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