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Show BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK. SAY GERMANS Berlin Sends Off Official Announcement Concerning Concern-ing Bombardment. (Spteltl Cable by Arrniyr'mnl with Ivinrlnn Dally TVlagraph nnrt Iihci national Nwn Service. I BERLIN, Bflpt. 27, via Amsterdam. Ono "British warship h;iK been sunk and two damaged by German coast batteries in Belgium, and two Russian wa rships, one a First-lino dreadnought, have been damaged by an air attach on the Gulf of Riga, according lo official announcements announce-ments today. fn arid it ion n Genua n submarine has sunk the Hritish steamer Natal transport trans-port oft' Crete, and an Austrian submarine subma-rine has sunk, a SOQO-tOn French steamer steam-er which was carrying coal from Malta to Crete. An official statement snvs: British ships attackid the German Ger-man coast batteries, especially at Zeebrugge. The attack failed, and aftor one ship had been sunk and two others damaged, the ships withdrew. with-drew. Another statement tells of the air attack at-tack on Russian warships In the Gulf of Riga, as follows: In the Gulf of Riga Russian men-of-war, including one ship of the line, were attacked by German aviators. avia-tors. Hits were observed on the line ship and on a torpedo boat do-si do-si royor. The Russian fleet, steamed away in a northerly direction as quickly as possible. |