The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . n the clouds. Through all this stridencyand blaze of conflict, the old Vindictive, still un-hurrying, was walking the lighted waters towardthe entrance. ... [A fog coming on J, the de-stroyers had to turn on their lights and use theirsyrens to keep in touch with each other; the airattack was suspended, and Vi
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . n the clouds. Through all this stridencyand blaze of conflict, the old Vindictive, still un-hurrying, was walking the lighted waters towardthe entrance. ... [A fog coming on J, the de-stroyers had to turn on their lights and use theirsyrens to keep in touch with each other; the airattack was suspended, and Vindictive, with somedistance yet to go, found herself in gross dark-ness. . Vindictive . . put her helm over andstarted to cruise to find the entrance. Twice inher wanderings she must have passed across it,and at her third turn, upon reaching the positionat which she had first lost her way, there came arift in the mist, and she saw the entrance clear,the piers to either side and the opening dead ahead_., . Vindictive steamed over it and on. She wasin. The guns found her at She was hitevery few seconds after she entered, her scarredhull broken afresh in a score of places and herdecks and upper works swept. The machine-gunon the end of the western pier had been put out. VINDICTIVE .AFTER R.\ID OX ZEEBRUGGE was due at the harbour mouth, the signal forthe guns to open was given. Two motor-boats,. . dashed in towards the ends of the highwooden piers and torpedoed them. There was amachine-gun on the end of the western pier, andthat vanished in the roar and the leap of flameand debris which called to the guns. Over thetown a flame suddenly appeared high in the air,and sank slowly earthwards—the signal that theaeroplanes had seen and understood; and almostcoincident with their first bombs come the firstshells whooping up from the monitors at sea. Thesurprise part of the attack was sprung. . Therewas a while of tremendous uproar. The coastabout Ostend is ponderously equipped wit
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