London, May 28.
'A remorseless 1,750 miles chase of the German 30,000-ton battleship Bismarck from the time when reconnaissance aircraft reported that she and a German cruiser had left Bergen to the moment when torpedoes of the ort cuisser H.MS. Dorsetshire delivered the final blow 550 miles west of Lands End was described in an Admiralty commu jue last night, All the might and resources of the Home Fleet were drawn on to ensure that the pride of Hitler's navy should not escape. The battle-cruiser IMS, Hood and HM. Renown and other Dattleships, (we of them drawn from tseorting convoys In the North At ante, a force from Gibraltar, another from Northern waters, cruisers and destroyers, the Fleet "Air "Arm and Coastal Command. planes, "all. took Part in the four days hunt, "Inexorably they combined to harry the Bis-marek southwards from the mist en= shrouded Denmark Straits "to the Clearer North Atlantic,
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