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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 53, 6 June 1916, Page 6

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li9*- NEW ZEALAND HER PLACE. ALMOST UNSCATHED. ; ■• ' .. IMOUS SIGNAL: “TAKE UP JR BATTLE-STATIONS.” HURRICANE OF SHELLS. ■N,MARY’S COMMANDER KILLED BY SHELL. (Received 1.40 p.m.) London, June 5. val officer, a participant in the Ight, who has reached Edingives a thrilling narrative, r the New Zealand’s great share few Zealand fought throughout day afternoon alongside the ■et came out practically unNew Zealand participated in rch.pn Thursday before retuma record re-fit. Lion, Tiger, Princess Royal. ;aland. and Queen Mary were iciphl ships of Admiral Beatty s lea was dead calm, ral Beatty, steering 'south-east, worst possible position for visible direct suiilighp silhouethig s on the skydine to the enepy. rah Beatty, however, foihmccl 1 Craddock's, example. Ihe gave'the order to engage and d: “Take np your battle staGermans were sighted at 3.3 A; htiiig at 5.30. ral Beatty hauled off in rnano? :o a better position, while the is, knowing that momenta)’ dy tld be possessed of enormous rity, did not lose a mom;.n. r ships at ten thousand yarns pounding each other ov.er -ho of. destroyers, the shells soon like g jhnffi<?a ne -; , roar was deafening, in two minutes misfoytupe k the British. A fujljsalvo. German Dreadnought struck een -Mary, -finding, ja* .vulne^’aW? i spot,and in a cloud of steam and ioai which rose like thunder, the ship filew up and Commander Sir Charles Blane, who only joined the Queen Mary in Apiil, was killed by the explosion of a shell before the vessel sank. Two of his i brothers were killed in France.