| Show L n A ENE OF 0 F BATTLE BA T TLE GERMAN CRUISER CATCHES BRITISH VESSEL overhauling MA CHIN chinery ERY AND DISABLES HER five british merchant steamers Ste anere sink in bay of bengal white while british sink german cruiser off south american coast london londom there has not boon been a gun fired in the north sea for day days so far as the british public knows but tho the admiralty issued night bulletins of important encounters in 10 far off NN waters aters swe narl tune tunes were both finbar tally tho the german protected cruiser koon caught tho the british light crul eer ser pegasus overhauling her machinery at zanzibar harbor sunday morn ins ing and attacked and completely disabled her tho german cruiser while of tho the samo same class as the british had more modern guns which outranged those or of her antagonist the british loss is given as kwea ty five killed and eighty wounded the german cruiser emden cap aured ur ed six british merchant steamers la in the bay of bengal in six days and bank sank five of them the emden reappeared at rangoon possibly having baying taken part in other exploits as yet not on tho british sido side of tho the score was tho the sinking of a german merchant cruiser supposed to have been the cape trafalgar or the berlin by the former cunnard liner carmalla Oar Car mania manla fani fam illar to transatlantic trans atlantic travelers also armed as a cruiser on september 14 in waters which the admiralty de scribes as oft off the cast coast of south america the british loss was small nine iiii killed d and twentysix twenty six wounded the german loss is unknown but the survivors were rescued apparently 4 the Car carmania manla steamed away without stopping to learn the particulars of her victims identity or casualties J ual ties |
