Show Warship Sinks British Steamers Steamers I t GERMANS GERMANS' CRUISER BUSY fJ BUSY I. I 0 or Lands Passengers on Lonely Lone Lone- ly Island Fifteen Fishing Fish- Fish J ing Boats Destroyed LONDON Sept 6 5 p. p m. m m. The Tha official information bureau announced t today da that a German squadron had sun sunk t fifteen British fishing boats boata in the tho North sea NEW YORK YORE Sept 6 The Tho Tho German G cruiser Karlsruhe has engaged and badly badly bad bad- I ly disabled the British cruiser Bristol I. I off tho the coast of Haiti according to H. H H. H a lieutenant of at the Ger Gor- German Gorman German man army and leader of ot seventy-eight seventy Germans who arrived here hore today on the Cylde line lino steamship Algonquin from Puerta Puerto Columbia on their way to join 0 the colors Tho The German lieutenant also said that thata a n Dutch skipper had bro brought ht word to Puerto Colombia that tho the had Karlsruhe-had had met and sunk Bunk the Br British cruiser Glasgow Glas Glas- Glasgow gow oft off the Colombian co coast st st. This however r he said saia was waif denied by British officials in in Geor Georgetown Before meeting with the Bristol Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lien tenant asserted the Karlsruhe captured two British steamships transferred transferred transferred trans trans- their passengers crew and stores to tho the cruiser and then sent the ships hips to the bottom The Bowes Castle a R British freighter has also been sunk Bunk by by DY the Karlsruhe of off lI Maranhao St St. Lucia island according to toa a cablegram received today from Liv Liv- iv- iv c ool According to tho the cable cablegram ram which was received by bj J. J F P. Whitney Co steamship agents the captain and crew o of tho the Bowes Castle were taken off ort before the guns of or the cruiser sent her to the bottom They were safely landed at Maranhao After Atter sinking the merchantmen the Karlsruhe sailed to a a. small Island In tho Caribbean sea aea oft off the port of ot Colombia and there landed the tho people ta taken taken taken ta- ta ken from the British ships Sufficient food for tor a month was also left on the island The marooned passengers passengers gers ers and crew may b be l on the Island yet said Raid He had not heard that they lead been taken t. off ocr |