Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1919 — HERO OF ZFEBRUGGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERO OF ZFEBRUGGE

Captain Carpenter of H. M. S. Vindictive arrived in New York recently. He is the captain of the proudest if not the most prepossessing ship in the British navy. It was the Vindictive that took the leading part the most thrilling assault of the war, the object of which was to bottle up the German submarine and destroyer posts ki Zeebrugge. Observations made after the raid proved how in Captain Carpenter’s words, they, gave thp dragon’s tail “a damp good twist.” After the successful raid the Vindictive returned to port, her funnels riddled with.bullets, her bridge blown away and battered and scarred hi, a dozen places, ...2,. v.