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Show RAIDING GERMAN SHIPS SUNK I J i H A V A L etunj . y the Jul Gennan Warships Sent , Down by British Uson, v sKj Patrol Boats. field. ad T, v LONDON, April 21. The admiralty announces that two German destroyers, destroy-ers, "possibly three, have been sunk in the course of a German raid near Dover. Do-ver. Five German destroyers took part - i in the Dover raid. They were engag- Efl' ed by two Dover patrol vessels. The S British suffered no material damage. (J l The British casualties were slight in comparison with the results obtained. obtain-ed. One hundred and five Germans i were saved, dard ! The announcement follows: ,n' ( The vice admiral reports that on JJJ 1 the night of April 20 five German de- p I stroyers attempted a raid on Dover. ! The raid resulted in their firing a I a J number of rounds into a plowed field j j a few miles from Dover. The enemy j ' appears then to have steered in the J direction of some of our shipping, pos- - slbly with the intention of attacking, but was met by two vessels of the the Dver patrol. and "In five minutes these two vessels engaged and sank at leaBt two, possi- as bly throe out of the five enemy boats, cm the remainder making off at high our speed during the short engagement, escaping in the darkness. , "Our vessels suffered no material ?! , damage and our casualties were ex- , ceedlngly slight in comparison with i the result obtained. Our patrol ves- ; selB were handled with remarkable gallantry and dash and the tactics ' pursued were a very fine example of destroyer work. We wpre fortunate ' In being able to save the lives of ten German officers and 95 men from the ' vessels sunk." |