"I am glad to say, however, that their fury has far exceeded the accuracy of their aim. Out of the 24 ships af'acked with bombs, only six small boats have been hit.
"I am able to tell you," Mr. Chur. chill concluded, "that the whole movement of British traffic is prcce uninterrupted and that yesterday, a division of the Canadian Army, strongly escorted across the ocean, disembarked in one of our home har-hours fcr the purpose of intensive training before jo the Western Froni Exeter bore up against 40 to 50 hits, many of the shells three times the weight she could fire.
"Three of the Exeter's eight-inch guns were smashed and she sustained nearly 100 casualties, by far the greater part killed.
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