Show TURKISH CRUISER GOES TO BOTTOM Mine Destroys Raider That Has Been Active on Russia's Black Sea Coast London April 4 The The sinking of the Turkish armored cruiser Is reported from Crom Petrograd to Reuters Reuter's Telegram company A semiofficial communication from Sebastopol to Petrograd says the I struck a n amine amine ml mine e n near ar the Russian coast last night and went d down dawn n S Re t B Amsterdam corre correspondent sa st say ys a a a. Berlin BerUn dispatch states states' that th-at I Turkish headquarters reports that the tho Turkish fleet Saturday was near I Odessa and that tho the cruiser while pursuing enemy mine sweepers In z th tho h vicinity of or t the fortress o of I strucK a drilling mine and ana sank Her crew was saved b by Turkish warships The report adds that the tile sailors of ot the before their ship sank removed the of tho the guns and torpedoed the cruiser to prevent her being used b by the thc Russians The Tile was a member of ot the Turkish Black Dlack sea fleet which has at attacked at- at tacked Rm Russian ports on several so oc occasions occasions occasions oc- oc and sunk Russian vessels January Januar 31 it was announced at Petrograd Petrograd Petrograd Pet Pet- that the with the Turkish cruiser formerly tho the German cruiser had been discovered discovered dis dis- covered ered near Samsoon by the tile Russian fleet but escaped The rhe was an American American- built ship having been laid down in Philadelphia in 1 1303 03 She was feet long and 4 42 feet beam heam and had hind a displacement displacement dis dis- placement of or 42 2 tons She was as armed with two 6 inch guns eight 47 inch guns uns 51 six 3 six pound 1 ers era and two torpedo tubes Her complement com corn comI I was 30 men |