Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-15
GRAPHIC STORY
 OF NAVAL RAID ON GERMAN SUB BASE IS TOLD
Bravery of British Sailors Who Blocked Ostend Harbor Related in Admiralty Re port Issued.
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 LONDON. May 1.-The admiralty has issued the following graphic story of the Ostend operation:
 "Dunkirk. May 1.-The Sirius lies in the surf some two thousand yards east of the entrance to Ostend harbOr. which she failed so gallantly to block. and when in the early hours of yester- day morning the Vindicitive groped her way through the smoke screen and headed for the entrance. it was as though the old fighting ship awoke and looked on.
 "A coastal motor boat had visited her and hung a flare in her stack and rusty rigging and that eye of unsteady fire watched the whole great enter prise from the moment when it hung in doubt to it's ultimate success.
 Tried Surprise Raid
 The planning and execution of that success had been entrusted by Ad- miral Sir Rebort Reyes to CommO- dOre Hubert Lynes. who directed the previous attempt to block the horbOr with the Sirius and Brilliant. Upon that occasion a combination of unfor- seen conditions had fought against him.
 The main problem was to secure the effect of a surprise attack upon an enemy who was clearly expecting him. The Sirius and Brilliant had been baffled by the displacement of the StrOom bank buoy which marks the channel to the harbOr entrance. Put since then aerial reconnaissance had established that the Grmns had removed the buoy altogether and that there now were no guiding marks of any kind They also had cut gaps in tho piefs as a precautiOn against the landing. and further. it was known that nine German destroyers were at large upon the coast.
 Vindictive Starts
 "It was a night that promised we'll for the enterprise. The sky was lead blue. faintly star-dotted. with no moon and still sea for small craft. whose work was done close in shore.
 From the destroyer which served the commodore for a flagship. the re- mainder of the force were visible only as silhouettes of blackness.
 From Dunkirk sudden brief fur rv of gunfire announced that German airplanes were on tho way to visit Calais and over the invisible coast of Flanders the summer lightning of rest less artillery rose and fell mOnOton- ously.
 "'There's the Vindictiva The muffled seamen and marines stand ing by the torpedo tubes and guns turned to gaze at the great block ship. seen mistily through the screening smoke from the destrOyers' tunnels. plodidng silently to her goal and end.
 She receded into the night. as a destroyer raced on to lay a light buoy that WIS to be her guide. and those on board saw her no more. She passed thence into the hands of the small craft whose mission was to guide her. light her and hida her in the clouds of a smoke screen.
 Airmeu Went Overhead
 There was no preliminary bonn hardment. as before the previous at tempt That was to be the first ele- meut in the surprise. A timetable had been laid down for every stage of the operation and the craft worked beforehand even included precise or ders for laying the smoke barrage.
 Monitors anchored in firing posi- tions far seaward. awaited the signal. The great sea batteries of the royal marine artillery in Flanders. among the largest guns that were ever placed on land mountings, stood by likewise
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