The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-28
Battlecruisers Slip Out Of North
Sea Fog and lombard Sea-
coast Town d. LowestcftWhile
BritIshAttatk Submarine Base
GERMAN AIRCRAFT BOMB
KENT AND ESSEX TOWNS
French Attacks On Kaiser's Lines
North Of lie Mort Homme Fail
To Gain Ground, Declare
Official Dispatches From Berlin.
ASSOCIATED Press BY Esdsral wirelss..l

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wireless)
I oNDoN, April 2e. - Rails ard
IL counser.raids,. by yea and air, TOOK
. s ths1Lmc of more important nav.
al or military operations yesterday.
A German battle cruiser squadron,
Nslipped on: Ct u fog bark in tho Moth
Sea and attacked the Little resort and
fishing town Of Lowestoft, on the
eastern edge of suffolk. The lombard.
ment lasted about twenty minutes, and
two British small cruisers and destroy
ers were hit and damaged by the drop
ping shells from the ToIton craft.
Shells Kill One Woman "
Two men and a woman and child
were killed on shore. Otherwise, says
the official report OF the affair but lit
tie damage was done by the raiders.
While the Germans were Smelling
Lowestoft, British warships. patroling
the Channel, were busy at Zeebrugge,
where Tie ctimans have cstlbhsEsd
submarine base and naval depots.
Her" the Gegma5s suffered heavily, ac.
cording TO dispatches from Amsterdf m
and three Tentenic torpedo b at des.
troyers, making a dash to attack the
attacking feet were stIuek by the
heavy shells Of the bombardcrs and
appeared to, have been seriously in
jured. ~ Ea.nt<r. -" - c's u
Damage Tremendous y, =, ' -. ~. -, 4 q. !,
The British. FIRE, continue the Amster.
dam dispatches did great execution
among the plants and depots ashore,
and the total damage done is declared
to have been tremendous.
Other raids are reported, raids of air
ships and aeroplanes In Egypt Brit.
ish aeroplanes are reported to have
started from the Allied bases on the
Suez canal, and attacked the camp of
the enemy at Quatia. The attack was
entirely successful, the tribesmen hav-
ing been forced to fee and the camp
having been destroyed.
Teutons Attack Camp
A Havas despatch from Salonika, re.
ceived in Paris late last night, announc-
ed that yesterday afternoon German
aerial squadron attempted to bomb the
Allied camp outside Of that Greek city.
Antiaircraft guns and Allied aero
planes drove the attackers off, forcing
them TO foe in all directions, before
they did any material damage.
The Germans are also reported to
have made an aerial attack on Dunkirk.
Six bombs were dropped, and killed one
woman and wounded three men. The
material, damage was next to nothing.
Fighting Now Tagging
In he T.. IL
the fighting Jagged. Berlin, it is true,
reported that the French sent waves of
men against the Tcuton position, north
Of L6 Mort Homme, where were held
inviolate, the Gall;c attack being re-
pulsed by heavy infantry fire.
Otherwise there was no infantry
lighting along the entire line in France
and Flanders. In Lorraine there was
IN effort on the part of the German
commanders to gain ground on French
salient but, after the attackers had
won an insecure fOothOld they were
driven back by the French counter, at.
tack. At La Chapelotte the Teutons
also won a footing only to be thrown
hack again with tremendous losses by
French gun fire.
Teuton Aviators 'Downed'
~
Paris reports that during the day no
less than four German aviators were
lowered" by the. FIRE, of the French
anti.aircraft guns and by the attacks
of Freheh aeroplanes
In the Argonne the French artillery
fire, added to mine and hand grenade
assaults drove the Germans out of one
of their advanced posts, which was de-
stroyed, and from shattered trench,
which the French took and consolidated.
On the eastern battle front the fight
ing has been desperate again. The Rus,
SLAMS have been launching fresh attacks
on many points of their long line, and
yesterday they attempted to gain
ground at Garabunkova. Heavy Rus
sian columns were used there, say Der
lin ofH"ial dispatches, but the SIavs
were driven back,