Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-04-26
TELLS OF SEA RAID
BRITISH MARINE DESCRIBES
FIGHT AT zEEBRueeE.
Declares Attacking Party Had Hot
Time After Entering Harbor-
Ramned German Destroyer.

London, April 25.-Air observation
shows clear break of 20 yards in
width in the Zeebrugge mole at the
inner end and that sunken object
blocks the greater portion Of the chan
mel ia the harbor of Ostend, according
to an official bulletin ished by the adj
nairalty.
Dover, April 25.-The crew of one
of the British submarines which was
used TO destroy the German piers at
zeebrugge were rescued, according to
member Of the crew, by an escorting
destroyer. The sailor said that after
the destroyer slipped the submarine at
the entrance to the harbor the under
water boat made straight fer The tar
get. A time fuse was set and ehe crew
abandoned the craft a few monents
later. The submarine srruek the OBJ
jectiye and blew up. The sailor said
the pier was blown to pieces.
London, April pa young marine
who took part in the fighting on the
mole at Zeebrugge in the British at
tempt to bottle up the U-boat bases,
described his experiences to a Central
News correspondent at a Kentish port
as follows:
I'VE certainly had hot time.
shall never forget it. 1t was all pitch
dark until we got right Into the har-
Dor, and then the place suddenly be-
came alight with star shells, and the
fun started.
Looming big ahead of us was
German destroyer, evidently getting
under way. We put on full speed
ahead and rammed her amidships,
cutting her in half AS she sank we
steamed aIonside the mole quickly,
put out gangplanks and rushed on TO
the mole. BY that time it was rain
ing hard.
",The first thing my party encoun-
tered was a giant German sailor who
came out of the semidarkness and
lunged at our nearest ran. Before he
could get In a blow our captain
knocked him on the head with his
truncheon and he sank down dead.
Next we saw another German de-
stroyer. tied up on the other side of
the mole. This we destroyed. We
knocked on the head all who attempt
ell TO oppose our progress. Then came
an order to charge along the mole.
We rushed ahead, bayoneting or shoot
ing all we came across.
"By this time we were fairly mad
and in high glee. The noise of. the
firing, mingling of the shouts and cries
of the men was terrifying. 1t was a
slaughter"
The marine said that when the or
der came to return to the ship they re-
traced their steps along the mole.
which was Uttered with the dead and
dying. and re-embarked safely.
Articles by naval writer's and edl-
torials In the morning newspapers eu-
logize with natural pride the volun-
teers who carried out the raid against
Zeebrugge and Ostend and discuss the
probable Importance of the enterprise.
Curiosity is expressed as to the fate
of the crews of the two old subma-
rineS which were assigned 10 blow up
the piling at the approach to the mole
at Zeebrugge.
The reported destruction of the lock
gates and the consequent draining of
the rruges canal lack confirmation.
Estimates of the time the Germans
will need to remove the Instructions
from the channel and repair the dam
aged mole vary.
Two destroyers got inside the mole
at Zeebrugge and blew up the lock
gate, the correspondent at Dover of
the Daily Mail reports.
The return of damaged British
cruiser with its decks torn open is de-
scribed in dispatches from Dover.
Few Of the crew escaped injury of
some kind, while many bodies were
brought back and placed reverently
in temporary morgue.