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Show NAVAL RAID II SUCCESS Sailors and Marines Be-' lieve Great Destruction Destruc-tion Accomplished. LONDON, April 2-1. Not only is the mouth of the canal at Zeebrugge blocked but British sailors and marines ma-rines who participated in the raid believe be-lieve they destroyed every Hun on the mole, demolished the sheds throughout its entire length and blew up large stores of munitions contained in the sheds, according to stories given by survivors to the correspondent of the Dally Chronicle at Kentish port. Until they were within a halt mile of the harbor of Zeebrugge no ships in the attacking force had picked up the light on the Mole. The attacking1 ship which started for the Mole followed fol-lowed by muttered calls of "good luck" I from the ship's companies of the escorting es-corting fleet outside the harbor had j got scarcely within sight of the light When it was discovered by the Germans Ger-mans Star shells immediately pierced the thick haze showing up the cruiser as clearly as though it had been daylight day-light Batteries Open On Cruiser. In one second it seemed as if every battory in the neighborhood had con t ent rated its fire on the cruiser. How she was able to get ahead none ol these watching her understood. Great 17 Inch shells and others of small caliber cali-ber flew around her like hail. She was apparenttly hit by the smaller ones but she plunged ahead and was seen to go around the corner of the mole and gain the center of the harbor har-bor Again the fire was directed Against her vital parts and most of the damage done was above the water line. Ger nans Shout "It's the Yankees." Disregarding all that had happened, the cruiser went up to the mole and landed a large party of bluejackets and marines. The German defenders connived the idea that their assailants assail-ants were Americans and. according to some of the survivors this cry was beard: "It's the Americans! It's the Yankees!" Some of the Germans bolted bolt-ed en masse from the batteries leav lng their guns to the British. The guns were destroved one by one while others in the landing partv dealt with the sheds and munition stores with flame throwers. Concrete-Laden Ships Arrive. Apparently under cover of this op eration, continues the account seni by the Daily Chronicle's correspondent, the concrete-laden cruisers with which it was intended lo block the chanlels, made their way through the horbor, accompanied as far as it can be asc rtained, by only one submarine As they approached the entrance they am bored, Bwung around on the cables and. according to the testimony of one ol thi observers, were sunk within 23 m I no le; Believe Locks Destroyed. One of the destroyers or submarines exploded a charge at the gate.-, ol the lock to the Bruges canal and they are believed to have been destroyed Meanwhile Mean-while four destroyers entered the harbor har-bor an' cruised around making observations, obser-vations, but wera unable to take part in tin battle. When the attacking ship and Its landing party had completed its work, the sailors and marines were taken aboard again despite the damaged con-ditio'i con-ditio'i of the cruiser which them be-;;m be-;;m to make its way out of the harbor. har-bor. One of the 17-inch shells from the hundreds of various calibers fire ) at the cruiser, got well home in her upper up-per works. Her steering gear was injured in-jured and she signalled an escort 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 liues of protecting cruisers. One man who watched the operation from ar escorting ship said to tho Dally Ct ronicle's crurespondent "When we saw the damage she had suffered, it seemed scarcely possible that she was able to keep afloat. The men below must have worked like Trojans for she was throwing flames ten feet high from her funnels and she made the fastest time she probably ever accomplished " The narrator described the com bined noise of the German gunfire and the explosions on the mole as a "ten-told "ten-told bell." He added. "We were only four or five hundred yards away from the point of the mole but were afraid to fire a shot lest we reveal our exact whereabouts to the enemy. Apparently he nearly judged it for he threw any number of shells around us. At a moderate estimate esti-mate between 3000 and 4000 shells were fired at the attack squadron." The German destroyer which was -unk was rammed amidships and torpedoed. tor-pedoed. Those .who returned to the Kentish port also say that boarders rushed on the German destroyers anchored an-chored in the harbor taking them completely by surprise. Some of the Germans hurried up to the hatchways in their night clothes but before they could reach the decks the British sailors sail-ors knocked them on the heads with clubs and rifles and sent them tumbling tum-bling down the hatchways. Writers tulogize bailors. Articles by naval writers and editorials edi-torials in the morning newspapers eulogize with national pride the sailors sail-ors who carried out the raid against Zeebrugge and Ostend and discuss the probable importance of the enterprise. Lieutenant Hobson's feat at Santiago and Admiral Togo's exploit at Port Arthur Ar-thur are recalled at notable precedents, preced-ents, but the landing on the beach at Gallipoli is regarded by some writers as the only real parallel. Fate of Crews. Curiosity is expressed as to the fate of the crews of thfc two old submarines subma-rines which were assigned to blow up the piling at the approach to tho mole at Zeebrugge. Their devotion to duty-appeals duty-appeals to the imagination of the writers for it is assumed that they voluntarily accepted almost certain death and that only by something akin to a miracle could those who remained aboard to explode, the charges have survived. Stories of survivors who have arrived ar-rived at Dover Hushed with belief in the full success of the expedition, are not corroborated in every detail by the official account. The reported destruc tion of the lock gates and ilv consequent conse-quent draining of the Bruges canal lack confirmation. If substantiated, this presumably would be the greatest achievement of tho raiding squadron. Estimates of the time the Germans will need to remove the obstructions from the channel and repair the damaged dam-aged mole vary. Some assume that many days will intervene, others many weeks, while still others seem to suppose sup-pose that the damage cannot he repaired re-paired for a very long time, J |