London, Dec. $7.
The Admiralty announces that, on the 25th instant, the German men-of-war lying in Schilling Roads, off Cuxhaven, were attacked by seven British naval seaplanes.
The attack was delivered at daybreak, starting from a point in the vicinity of Heligoland. The seaplanes were escorted by light cruisers and a force of destroyers, together with submarines.
As soon as these ships were seen by the Germans from Heligoland, two Zeppelins, three or four hostile sea-planes and several hostile submarines attacked them.
It was necessary for the British ships to remain in the neighbourhood in order to pick up the aviators on their return, and a novel combat ensued between most modern cruisers on the one hand and the enemy's air craft and submarines on the other.
By swift mancuvring the on-amy's submarines were avoided, and the two Zeppelins were easily put to flight by the guns of H.M.8. Undaunted and H.M.8. Arethusa. The enemy's seaplanes succeeded in dropping their bombs near to our ships though without hitting any.
The British ships remained for three hours off the enemy's coast, without being molested by any our-face vessel, and safely re-embarked three out of the seven British aviators with their machines. Three other pilots, who returned later, were picked up, according to arrangement, by the British eubmi ines which were standing by, their machines being sunk. Six out of the seven pilots therefore returned safely. Flight Commander Francis E. T. Hewlett is, however, missing. His machine was seen in a wrecked condition about eight miles from Heligoland and the fate of this daring and skilful pilot is at present unknown.
The extent of the damage done by the bombs dropped by the British aviators cannot be estimated, but all of them were discharged om points of military importance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.