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Show BERLIN CLAIMS THAT NO GERMAN SHIPS WERE LOST BERLIN, Oct. 27 via London, Oct. 28, 12:54 a. m. At least eleven outpost steamers and two or three torpedo boat destroyers or torpedo boats were sunk or damaged by a German torpedo boat squadron Thursday night in the English channel between ' Folkestone and Boulogne, Bou-logne, according to an official communication com-munication issued here. The German torpedo boat flotilla returned safely to its baso without any loss. The communication says: Parts of our torpedo forces moved from a German bay Thursday night through the straits of Dover and Calais to the line of Folkestone-Bolougne Folkestone-Bolougne in the English channel. According to the report of Commander Com-mander Michelsen, at least eleven outpost steamers and two or three destroyers or torpedo boats were sunk partially or totally near hostile hos-tile ports. Some members of the crews who were saved were captured. cap-tured. , Several other guarding vessels and at least two destroyers were heavily damaged by torpedoes and artillery fire. Also "tho English post steamer Queen was sunk south of Folkestone, the crew having time to leave the ship. In the channel near the Fame lightship there was a strikingly active ac-tive traffic by hospital ships." Our torpedo boats safely returned to German waters without any loss. |