SINKING A RAIDER.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1919, Page 5

SINKING A RAIDER.

IN, THE NORTH SEA. YARROWDALE. BROUGHT TO . ' BOOK_ - .3: ‘ Naval dispatches published in a’ sup"-i ' pleinent to the “London Gazette?’ last month give the details "of ‘the sinking of a! German raider in the North Sea ,_ in I\3.[a.rchp,. 1917', an action ‘whichawas_‘_u_ not reported at the tim_e,p_p and but briefly announced some time afterwards. I T. This raider, it is now known, commissfionzed’ as the German‘ cruiser ‘Leopard, was tino Cotlier thanw-the‘.-Britisht‘ « 's’t;’¢.a‘mer Yarrowdale,7captil'red by the German raider hioewe in December, 1916, and ‘fitted outr”in' Germany’ for‘ service as a raider_ V 3 " is _ Admiral ‘Sir David Beatty, in a dispatch transmitting, the reports of Captain Francis Leatc, of H.M.s. Achilles and Commander Selwyn M. Day," of Dundee, praises the ability and sound ‘judgment they displayed in rounding up and clestrofving the raider. ENEMY OUTMA~N“;EUVRED The Leopard had a havy torpedo armament, and the intention of her commander was to manoeuvre during chase and boarding so as to torpedo both the Achilles and Dundee. The com-nander of the Dundee. however, malloeu\*l-e:ld§&;E‘:3n‘~m§uch 4:1 way that for five. or six minues he was able to pour in a heavy fire at a range of 1009 ygards begore. the raider could In-ing aid gun to: befar. The Achilles gave the’ coup”'de grace, and the raider waé sulll§§pith»all hands. > Unhappily a boarding party from the Dundee had rowed over to the Leopard and were forced on board; This party consisting of Lieut. F_ H. Lawson, R.N.R._. and five seamen._ took the extreme risk of a boarding operation under the conditions prevailing, and Went down with the I'3isol‘- ADaTt ,if]'on] these there were no casualties or damage on the British ships.