. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. g to plan, the ship ran alongside the mole,approaching it on the port side, equipped with speciallybuilt buffers of wood two feet wide. As there was nothingto tie to, the Vindictive merely dropt anchor, while theDaffodil, with her nose against the opposite side of the ship,kept her against the mole. In a fairly heavy sea, two ofthe three gangways were smashed, but the third held, and500 men swarmed up on the mole. This gangway was twofeet wide and thir
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. g to plan, the ship ran alongside the mole,approaching it on the port side, equipped with speciallybuilt buffers of wood two feet wide. As there was nothingto tie to, the Vindictive merely dropt anchor, while theDaffodil, with her nose against the opposite side of the ship,kept her against the mole. In a fairly heavy sea, two ofthe three gangways were smashed, but the third held, and500 men swarmed up on the mole. This gangway was twofeet wide and thirty feet long. The men who went across in-cluded 300 marines and 150 storming seamen from the Vin-dictive, and fifty or so from the Daffodil. They carriedhand grenades and Lewis guns. A hard hand-to-hand fighttook place along the mole for two hundred yards toward theshore. As the Vindictives bow was pointed toward theshore, the bridge got the full effect of enemy fire from shorebatteries. One shell exploded against the pilot house, killingnearly all its ten occupants. Another burst in the fighting To an Associated Press correspondent. 372. 373 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA top, killing a lieutenant and eight men who were doing ex-cellent work with two pompoms and four a few German shells hit the hull, because it was wellprotected by the wall of the mole, but the upper structure,masts, and ventilators, which showed above the wall, wereriddled. Twenty-five minutes after the Vindictive reached the wall,the first block-ship passed in and headed for the canal. Twoothers followed in leisurely fashion, while the men kept upthe fight on the mole. One of the block-ships stranded out-side the canal, but the two others got two or three hundredyards inside, where they were successfully sunk across theentrance. Air-observations showed that a clear break twentyyards in width had been made in the mole at the innerend, and that a sunken object blocked the greater part
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