Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

SOnIInllc0 from E1fSt rage.
centrated its fire on the cruiser. How
she was able to get ahead none of
those watching her understood.
Great 17-inch shells and others of
smaller caliber flew around her like
hail. She apparently was hit by some
of the smaller ones but she plunged
ahead and was seen to turn the cor
ner of the mole and gain the inside
of the harbor. The German fire ap-
parently was DETECTED from her vital
parts by the intervening structure of
the mole and most of the damage
done was above the waterline.
Designating all that had happen
ed, the cruiser went up to. the mole
and landed n large party of blue
jackets and marines. The German
defenders conceived the idea that
their assailants were Americans and,
according to some of the survivors,
this Cry was heard:
Fear the Yankees
It's the Americans! It's the Yam
kees!"
Some of the Germans bolted en-
masse from the nearest batteries
leaving their guns TO the British. The
guns were destroyed one by one,
while others in the landing party
Will ttlC SllGIS
stores with flame throwers.
Apparently under cover of this
operation, continues the account,
sent by the Daily Chronicles CORE
spondent, the concrete laden cruisers
with which it was intended to block
the channels, made their way
through the harbor, accompanied as
far as it can ascertained, by only
one submarine. As they approached
the entrance, they anchored, swung
around on the cables and according
to the testimony of one of the OBJ
servers, were sunk within twenty
three minutes.
Harbor Is Entered
One of the destroyers or subma-
rines exploded charge at the gates
of the lock to the Bruges canal and
they are believed to have been de-
stroyed. Meanwhile four destroyers
entered the harbor and cruised
around, making observations, but
were unable to take part in the bat
tie.
When the attacking ship and its
landing party had completed their
work the sailors and marines were
taken aboard again despite the dam
aged condition of the cruiser which.
then began to make its way out of
the harbor.
One of the 17-inch shells out of
the hundreds of various calibers
fired at the cruiser got we'll home in
her upper works. Her steering gear
was injured and she signaled an es-
cort ship to show her the way out.
but before help arrived she had
found her way out and taken her
place under her own steam behind
the lines of protecting cruisers.
Work Like Trojans
One man who watched the opera
ton from an escorting ship said to
the Daily Chronicles correspondent:
When we saw the damage she
had suffered, it seemed scarcely pos
sible she was able to keep afioat. The
men below must have worked like
Trojans, for she was throwing flames
ten feet high from her tunnels and
she made the fastest time she prob
ably ever accomplished"
The narrator described the COM
bined noise of the German gunfire
and the explosions on the mole as a
''ten-fold hell" He added:
Board Huns Ships
I'VE were only four or five hun
dred yards away from the point of
the mole but were afraid to fire a
shot lest we reveal our exact where
abouts to the enemy. Apparently he
nearly judged it for he threw any
number of shells around us. At a
moderate estimate between 5000