An item dated London the 21st reported that McNamara (1) stated on behalf of the Admiralty in the House of Commons that he believed that the German destroyers and torpedo boats based at Zeebrugge and Oostende, Belgium managed to escape to German harbours.(2) An exact number however was not known. All efforts were done to capture those ships. But in cases German warships tried to escape at night and sometimes using Dutch territorial waters those efforts were not successful. When Parliament member Houston asked if German destroyers escaped using the Schelde was this denied by MacNamara.
Notes
1. The British Liberal politician Thomas James McNamara (23 August 1861 Montreal, Canada-3 December1931)? He was between 1908 and 1920 parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.
2. Germany was just like Austria one of the countries which lost the First World War (28 July 1914-11 November 1918 armistice).
