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Show BRITISH MAKE AIR RAIDJNGERMANY TWO GERMAN PATROL VESSELS ARE SUNK AND A BRITISH DESTROYER LOST. Three British Hydroplanes Brought Down by German Guns, Five Officers Of-ficers Being Made Prisoners After Escaping Death. London. Three British aeroplanes which took part in a raid on German airship sheds in Schleswig-Ho'.stein are missing. Two German patrol vessels ves-sels were sunk and a British destroyer de-stroyer is believed to have been lost. Dispatches from Esjberg, Denmark, to the Berlingske Tidende says Reu-ter's Reu-ter's Copenhagen correspondent reports re-ports a great naval battle between the German and British fleets some three miles off the Graady lightship at midday Sunday. The dispatch adds that Tondern In Schleswig-Holsteln has been bombarded bombard-ed by five aeroplanes. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company from Copenhagen saya the German armed trawlers sunk by the British outside Sylt harbor were named Braunschweig and Otto Rudolf. Ru-dolf. A dispatch from Berlin says that not less than three British hydroplanes, hydro-planes, among them a fighting aeroplane, aero-plane, were brought down by German guns on and about the Island of Sylt. during an air raid on northern Schles-wig. Schles-wig. The inmates of the machines, who were made prisoners, are four English officers and one non-commissioned officer. Bombs were only thrown in the district of the Hoyer water gate. No damage was done. |