Show DISABLED SHIPS TO GET NO HELP SINKING OF BRITISH CRUISERS CAUSES ADMIRALTY TO ESTABLISH ESTABLISH ES ES- A NEW RULE Total Loss of Life When Germans Sank British Vessels Reported at Sixty Officers and Fourteen Hundred Men London The London The facts concerning the sinking of the British cruisers Abou Abou- Mr Hogue Hague and Cressy b by a German submarine or submarines in the North sea with a loss of nearly sixty officers orn cers and 1400 men are contained Inan Inan in inan an admiralty statement issued Friday The reports of Commanders Nicholson Nicholson Nichol Nichol- son of ot the tho Cressy and Norton of the Hogue state that the Aboukir was hit by one torpedo and sunk sunk- sunk sunk-in In thirty-five thirty minutes Three torpedoes were fired at the Cressy one of the explosives missing narrowly She lasted from thirty five to forty five minutes The Hogue was struck twice t ten n to twenty twenty twenty ty second elapsing between the torpedoes torpedoes torpe torpe- does and went under In five minutes The reports show that the strictest discipline was maintained and that thai acts ot of heroism was performed but the admiralty has e the rule that such affairs must be governed bythe bythe by bythe the same laws as prevail pre in naval actions ac Lions and that disabled ships must be left lett to their own resources rather than that other sh ships ps should be jeopardized by rescue work |