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Show BRAVE WORK OF RAIDING CREWS DOVER, April 25 Crews of the ships which took part in tho raid on Zeohmrpo have many thrilling stories of their adventures. One of them has described how, despite tho fact that the Germans discovered their presence wb.il they were still outside the harbor, har-bor, they made their way in through heavy gun fire, (he Vindictive reaching m th( wharf where she remained for an hour and a half. "A landing party was put ashore," the seaman said, "and we captured the German guns on the breakwater and I turned them around, firinc them on tho 1 German fortified positions As far as we could see there was not a place of any military importance loft we destroyed de-stroyed a lot, "VYe had to leave many of our landing land-ing parties behind, but they were taken off by motor boats One of our destroyers received a salve of shells in her engine room and had to be : beached, she was blown up after the survivors had been rescued. "Motor boats destroyed every floating float-ing thine in slpht, including two German Ger-man destroyers and some submarines. Those of the landing party who remained re-mained behind to continue tbe work of smashing German guns knew they would either lose their lives or be taken prisoner. They were volunteers and a brave lot of fellows." 00 |