Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-25 | Page 11 | Berlin Report Declares Raid was a Failure

a few men of the crews could be saved by us. Beyond the damage caused to the mole by a torpedo hit our haibor works are quite ufTdamaged. Of our naval forces only one torpedo-beat suffered damage of the lightest character. char-acter. Our casualties were small. intervene, others many weeks, while still others seem to hope that the damage cannot be repaired for a very long: time- BERLIN REPORT DECLARES RAID WAS A FAILURE BERLIN, April 24, via London. Tn the British naval raid Tuesday morning, on the German submarine bases on the Belgian Bel-gian coast, the German admiralty announced an-nounced that in addition to the five British Brit-ish cruisers sunk near the coast three destroyers and a number of motor-boats were sunk by the fire of the coast batteries. bat-teries. The statement reads: On Tuesday morning an enterprise of British naval forces against our Flanders bases, conceived on a large scale and planned regardless of sacrifices, sac-rifices, was frustrated. After a violent bombardment by the enemy at sea, small cruisers, escorted es-corted by numerous destroyers and motor-boats, under cover of a thick veil of artificial fog. pushed forward near Ostend and Zeebrugge. with the intention of destroying the locks and harbor works. According to prisoners, four companies com-panies of marines were to occupy the mole at Zeebrugge by a coup de main, in order to destroy all structures, guns and war material thereon and the vessels ves-sels lying in the harbor, i Only about forty of them got on the mole. These fell into our hands, eome alive and some dead. On the narrow high wall of the mole both parties fought with the utmost fierceness. Of the naval forces which parttt i-pated i-pated in the attack the small cruisers Virginia. Enterprise and Sierus and twc7 others of similar construction, whose names are unknown, were sunk close off the coast. Moreover, three destroyers and a considerable number num-ber of torpedo-boats and motor-boats were sunk bv our artillery fire. Only