AMAZING PLUCK AT JUTLAND.
GERMAN OFFICER’S ADMISSION. London, Dec. 11. Von Hase, formerly a gunnery officer on the Derfflinger, continuing his articles on the Battle of Jutland in the Sunday Times, says: “The short northern night lasting from 11 .p.m. to 2 a.m. began. It must be admitted that the English destroyers returned again and again to the attack W’tb amazing pluck. Throughout the night our searchlights flashed, lighting up the destroyers rushing to the attack. “We were unable to distinguish details, but one blazing, red-hot vessel after another passed us. We must have seen quite ten of these dash by, and watched them with mixed feelings, not knowing whether they were English or German. “As morning broke a big ship drove past us—the English cruiser Black Prince. The whole ship was red-hot. ! and there could not have been a soul [alive on board for so&e time/’-Hfon.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1921, Page 5
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147AMAZING PLUCK AT JUTLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1921, Page 5
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