ATTACK KNOWN ON HIS OWN HOPE
By Associated Press
LONDON, April 24. — A British Admiralty statement reports an attack by three British naval machines on five enemy destroyers, which were seen at 4:10 PM on Monday, stemming between Blankenburg and Zeebrugge on a northeasterly direction five miles off the coast.
"The leading machine," says the statement, "attacked, dropping six bombs, one of which was seen to obtain a direct hit. The remaining four destroyers scattered, and were attacked by the two remaining machines, thirty-two bombs being dropped. The leading destroyer was observed to take a list to port, and remained stationary after all the bombs had been dropped. The four destroyers closed in on the disabled craft. A hostile seaplane attacked our machines, but was easily driven off. At 6:10 PM the four destroyers were reported by a reconnaissance machine as entering Zeebrugge harbor. It is considered not probable that one destroyer was sunk.

The German official statement received by wireless today affords a remarkable instance of the methods, the German official statement.  The enemy is now adopting to explain away his defeat and encouraging the German people. These methods consist in attributing to us designs we have never entertained, then proving that they have failed completely...

Neither on the 9th of April, nor on the 23rd did we attempt to break through the German lines in the kupk-3. Intimated in the German communique. Our objective, in each case, was limited. 