A furious nine-hour sea. Battle in the Skagerrak, lasting intermittently from 3 pam, wil midnight yesterda was witnessed by coastal islanders who today said that they saw two ships, believed to be German transports, explode and sink, They also reported that they saw hundred of heads be ing inthe water after the terrible explosions.
Detonations of the broadsides by; aval guns and torpedoes shook island Houses Ike an earthquake and hund= reds of windows wore broken by the Village residents of Marstrand believed that the German fleet eon-sisted of 23 ships, of which eleven were transports and the rest armed: trawlers.
British submarines launched the first attacks on the Germans and then British planes came out from the skies and swooped over the German Vessels, the villagers reported.
'The yhting reached a climax at 5 pan, and was suspended at 8 pin. only to be resumed at 10. pan. and Continued with full force unlit' midnight,
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