27 APRIL 1918, page 1

The Admiralty Had Previously Reported That On The Night Of

Wednesday in last week our Monitors bombarded Ostend and the coast batteries. On Saturday last our light forces operating in the Bight of Heligoland sighted enemy light forces,......

It Was On Monday Night, The Eve Of St. George's

Day, that the Navy made its raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend, under the direction of Vice-Admiral Roger Keyes, commanding at Dover. The p!an was to sink five obsolete cruisers......

While The Enemy's Attention Was Thus Drawn To The Head

of the Mole, which is well over a mile long, the three block-ships, piloted by motor-boats and launches, entered the harbour and steered straight for the entrance to the Bruges......

That The Old Cruisers Were Able To Steam Close Inshore

before they were sighted by the enemy, was due to the use of smoke screens on a very large scale. Commander Brock, under whose direction the coast from Zeebrugge to Ostend was......

News Of The Week.

T HE Navy haacome altogether into its own again. The details of the gloriously daring naval enterprise at Zeebrugge and Ostend have taught the nation to remember—what it was in......

The Enemy Suspended His Attacks For A Few Days In

Flanders and east of Amiens, and the Allies took the opportunity of improving their lines by email local enterprises. The most important of these was a French advance in the......

On The Flanders Front, The Enemy On Thursday Week Made

a reso- lute attempt to break our lines on his left or southern flank between Givenchy and St. Venant. He used six divisions, but his repeated attacks failed with extremely......

An Account Of The Zeebrugge Affair Published In The Daily

Chronicle recorded that when our Marines and bluejackets landed on the Zeebrugge Mole, the Germans almost with one accord cried out : " The Americans have come !—the Yankees are......

The Paper Shortage.

TO OUR READERS.—The shortage of paper has obliged us to adopt the policy, already adopted by many of our contemporaries, of refusing to allow the " Spectator " to be on sale or......