Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
WHILE ARMIES MARK
 TIME FLEET CREEPS
 IN UPON "U" BOATS
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 a large nunoer of volunteers from the Grand Fleet and navy and ma rine depots. There was great com petition for the Undertaking and we could only use a. very small propor- tion of those who volunteered.
 There were light covering forces belonging to the Dover command and Harwich forces under Admiral Tyr whit, covering the operation in the north. A force of monitors, together with a large number of very small motor boats took part in the opera ton which Was particularly intricate and had to be worked to q time table and involved delicate navigation on 9 hostile coast without lights and largely under unknown navigational with the added danger of mine fields.
 Planning Mind is Stiled
 T should like to mention that the officer who developed the operation was killed.
 The high development of scientific use of fog or smoke was one of the essentials to success. It was more fog than smoke, which, combined hllI CGitdiH Nill1 tOllultiphoi W eto essential to the success of the opera tion, so as to protect the operation from batteries which might have flanked it.
 "The plan, was, after an intense pombardment of Zeebruggee by the monitors, the vindictive, with auXil- iaries, was to run alongside the mole and attack it with gunfire as they ap- rnanhn1 iyn nd 1nr11niiti inn parties were to be landed. Meantime three block ships, assisted by motor boats were to make for the entrance to the canal, run aground and be blown up. The old and valueless submarines filled with explosives, were to run against the pile work connecting the masonry with the shore. in order to cut off the mole from the shore.
 Ostend Problem More Simple At Ostend the operation was more siderably increased by mist. rain and low visibility and the consequent ab- sence of aerial cooperation.
 The results thus far are known tC be that two block ships were run ashore 1 and blown up at Ostend. It is too earl5 to say definitely whether they ac- complished their objective. but so fal as the officers could sec in the dark ness they were slightly off the course At Zeebrugge two or three block ships attained their objective, being sunk ol blown up at the entrance of the canal l The third grounded while passing in
 Enemy Craft Suffers
 "A certain amount of damage, thu extent at present unknown, was dons | hE ertttfiro enemy destroyer and other craft lyine at the mole. Coastal motor boats re. port having torpedoed an enemy de. stroyer which was trying to escape sea ward. One of the two old. submarine: gained its objective and destroyed tn, l piling approach to the mole.
 "Storming parties from the Vindic. 1 tive and the ferry boats attacked unde, an extremely heavy fire and tough with the greatest gallantry. maintain ing their position alongside the mol, for an hour, and causing. it is believed much damage to the enemy and in l flicting considerable losses. The oh jectives for the storming and demoIi 1 tion parties on the mole were the enc my forces holding it and the batter, upon it. as well as the destroyer ant submarine depots and the large sea plane base upon it.
 Landing Parties Escape
 After re-embarking their landin, parties, the aforesaid three vessel withdrew. This attack primarily wa intended to engage the attention of tn garrison on the mole, thereby allow ing the block ships to enter the harbor
 The casualties to the personnel. a Ee had expected in hazardous adven ture of the kind, were heavy in pro portion to the number of men engaged Up to today the British losses reporte, are one destroyer sunk by gun fire an, two coastal motor boats and tw, l launches missing.
 We have sufficient information t show that the entrance to the Bruse canal probably was effectively blocked that material damage was done .,an, that the greatest credit is due to al ranks for their gallantry."
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