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Show -pN AWE BELEI COAST British Admiralty Gives Thrilling Narrative of Operations. LONDON, Oct. 19. The operations n the Belgian coast are described in a hrilling narrative issued by the admir-!ty. admir-!ty. There had come a rumor from ip the coast that the Germans had re-noved re-noved the heavy batteries with which ,he coast was armed, but in the after-loon, after-loon, when a reconnaissance was made :"o the head of West Deep, mile after jiile of big guns awoke and blazed at the slowly crawling screen of smoke in which "the ships had massed them-ielveik,' them-ielveik,' ' ins of all calibers, from six to cn-inch roared out from the coast mi plunged into or burst upon the sea ud spat leaping fountains of water. Dnly one burst was near enough a ship Bo drop fragments aboard her, and between the spouts the smoke-making motor launches, each dragging a swelling swell-ing tail of vapor behind it, moved unhurriedly, un-hurriedly, the men leaning from the rails with landing nets, scooping up pen killed by the explosions. In the evening it was the turn of the coastal motor boats, the smallest of all. Their function was to pay a visit to Zeebrugge, where the old cross-channel boat, Brussels, was reported re-ported lying, and sink her where she lay. The boats, working up to speed, swung around in a curve that had the point of the mole with the lighthouse and searchlight for its center, and drove in toward the beach at Heyst, just east of Zeebrugge. At 700 yards the bulk of the Brussels Brus-sels was visible, clear enough against the mole in the moonlight, with its two funnels standing against a big store-shed. store-shed. The airplanes had ceased flare-dropping flare-dropping and were bombing, and to this accompaniment the first torpedoes were fired. The second torpedoes were then let go at 400 yards, and then the boats, bearing away seaward, heard and saw the bursts of three of them. Independent observation by an officer of-ficer in the leading boat and by a torpedo tor-pedo specialist in the last boat agree that one torpedo hit the target close to the stern. No boat was hit and there were no casualties. |