Show GERMAN VESSELS PREY OF BRITONS SIXTEEN SHIPS 6 CAPTURED OR WRECKED IN ATTEMPT TO RUN first effective blow british navy ha has dealt german blockade running system in three years made possible by americans london Jont lon A fleet of small german vessels ventured forth from 11 in III nil all attempt to ruu run tile the 1 I british ih three of them left saturday uie the other oilier fourteen A powerful n mosquito flotilla lay jay in wait tw for shw in tile lie north sea tills this is what happened to the tenton huuton ehlis four sunk four captured four stranded two wrecked ed two tied fled back b badly adly damaged by sun gull lire fire I 1 total iota ag one fled back aud readied reached i bore borc unharmed it was the first effective mow tile t ic 1111 british tish navy has bas dealt to tile german germ 1 blockade running system in three years of war warfare faie it was made vos pos bililc ly by the presence ire in ili liti tish waters vaters of american destroyers which enabled the british to detail ft large part of heir mosquito craft to watch the alio crafty little smugglers tile the british admiralty in ili a statement Tue tuesday flay accounted only for bix of tile Gerin germait ships saying four were captured and two driven back 14 lo 10 the dutch shore riddled by gunfire from Yi came unofficial news of the lie fate of tile other blockade randers the german ships paid no nn attention to tile stop sto p signals of tile ilic british do Ft t they turned around till und started a wild race for the shore whence they came hut but lie asti oi ars were wera too swift for them bliem arid the gunfire too effective the crews of two of the lie vessels captured es cupell tile admiralty announced while no details are ghen this so suggests the dramatic picture of of fully a ceole of sailors lumping jumping overboard unit and tor for their lives with what result no one knows tito the frustration of the blockade running epe flitton Is n 1 great blow to GM coming at a 1 time when that hint countr country rv Is liel believe level 1 tor be straining every i to prove to holland and tilt sc he idina ian countries thil ilia liili tin the I 1 ti iding ng is perilous c e is I 1 bott to leep heep up and tit n alie exchange of if certain ajas djs |