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Show HARBOR IS SCENE OF SEAFiGHT rman Protected Cruis-vrKoenigsberg Cruis-vrKoenigsberg Catches , h British Light Cruis- Pegasus Overhauling Overhaul-ing Its Machinery jr lakes an Attack and ('Completely Disables he Latter. i ARE KILLED k AND 80 WOUNDED e x British Merchant Steamers Destroyed in . k Orient; German X Merchant Cruiser Sunk t" -iy Britisher Off the : last Coast of South E taerica; Many Lives I .ost. -A'DoX. Sept. 2U, 11:20 y. m. ? 1,1 has not been a fum fired iu the j " ri n for days, so far as the Brit-o Brit-o "iblir liticuvs. but the admiralty jt' i 'i tuuilit bulletins of important ':' iters in far off waters. Successes p m.stortuucs were both chronicled '"liallv. Cri' , : ' protected cruiser Koen- i"? raiiElit the British light cruiser l; :i O'.erhaulinr her machinery in harbor this mornini; and at-v at-v I '"'1 'plctely disabled her. ' '? Germnii cruiser, while of the '!(1!s the British, had more is ' '" 8"ns' Wch outranged those of rer! '"lawnist. ; Bntwh loss is given as twenty if , aud eiRhty wounded. ''j , "uiser Emdeu captured merchant steamers in the 'IV , " ?"" i x days and sank , "em. The Emdeu reappeared r ,.l'.1r""' "ossiWV having taken part ;" , exploits, as yet not known. Hff'J Win. Victory. "!iiwBr'"i81' siJl' Hl'-the ?coru was I "t of a German merchant t t to have been the Cape 1. by l ho former: Mw Urniil,lia- familiar to t ? also armed as ! , i Vptembcr 14, iu waters H r,ra"y bribes .as "off ot (South America.- The , w small, nine killed and k i funded. ! M l0S! '8 u,1,!"w. but the "f.'. the T 5 ,al "V without stopping r" f her vtctiml "t : , Nxoi ' ittf, Cumberland reports S" "! m Gen, ' "lers. "'tween small Disabled. V; ;'"r,ak of lhe0rt says that since iS1"""" Jar',ltt Pegasus. t .k,n zS," A. Inslis. had vaohfanzbr and had rn- i V kMn or1nSr"1?n,:e8- Including : Sfe ri''' (a sea--. ,?rman "lnAfr;:a). the sinking .J 8unbat Mowe and a I:j-"he1,0'r-'' continues the ,. ':rs ,0U ."'tacked by the l, i ',!.Un8 boiu"chrecl Zanz.bar " ' T1,e pVlI J" and repairing ma- iZBif! HARBOR IS . SEEK OF SEfi EIGHT (Continued from Page One.) the newer four-Inch puns of tho Koenljrs-berir. Koenljrs-berir. was completely disabled after auf-feriric: auf-feriric: a loss, unofficially reported at twenty-five killed and eighty wounded. This Is a hisn proportion out of a. crow of 234. The damage done to the Koenl.Ersberff Is not known. She was last seen steaming steam-ing to the southward. Losses in Orient. "On September 10 the German cruiser Ernden, from the China station, after being be-ing completely lost fur six weeks, suddenly sud-denly appeared In the Bay of Bengal, and during the period including- September Septem-ber 10 to 14, captured six British shirs as follows; The Indus, Lovat, KUllm. Diplomat, Frabbock and Katlnga, of which five were sunk and the sixth was sent to Calcutta with the crews of th others. The Kmden now is reported at Rangoon, and it is possible she has mad other captures. Carmania's Exploit. "The British auxiliary cruiser Car-mania, Car-mania, Captain Noel Grant, royal navy, went into action September 14 off the east coast of South America with a German Ger-man armed merchant cruiser, supposed to be the ape Trafalgar or Berlin, mounting eight four-inch guns and pompons. pom-pons. The action lasted one hour and forty-five minutes, when the German ship capsized and sank, her survivors being rescued by an empty collier. "Of the Carmania's crew nine men were k illed and f i ve seriously wound ed. None of the officers was injured. The first lord of the admiralty has sent the following telegram to Captain Grant: "Well done! You have fought a fine action ac-tion to a successful finish.' Purposely Rammed. "The British cruiser Cumberland. Captain Cap-tain Curil !FuIler, R. N-. reports from tho Kamerun river that a German steamboat on the night of September 14, attempted to sink the British gunboat Dwarf, Commander Com-mander Frederick Strong, with an infernal machine in her bows. The attempt failed and the stea.mboat with one prisoner was captured. "On the night of the 16th the "Dwarf was mirooselv rammed by the Nashtlgall. a German merchant ship. The Dwarf was slishtlv damaged but sustained no casualties. "The .Nashtlgall was wrecked. The enemy lust- four wiiite men and ten colored men, and eight white and fourteen four-teen colored men arc missing. "A further report from the Cumberland Cumber-land today says 'that two German launches, one carrying explosive machines, ma-chines, were destroyed. The eneiny'R losses wero one whito man killed and three white men and two natives taken prisoners." Reports Confirmed. The admiralty reports confirm a n earlier report frmn Toklo last week, of the sinking of six British steamers by the Kmden in far distant waters. Of the steamers the Indus was of -103 tons. and. was last recoiled at Calcutta August LI: the Luvat was of SI 00 tons; the Killim, 2257: tho Diplomat, 48711 tons, was last reported at Suez August 11. bound from "Liverpool for Calcutta. Neither the Frabbock nor the Katinga is 1 mentioned in the official maritime register. regis-ter. There is a Kablnga, of 2925 tons, which was at Calcutta September 'A, ready to sni! for Boston and New York, land a Katanga of 2160 tons, which sailed j from Port Talbot August 20, for Calcutta. |
