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Show NAVAL BATTLES IN MANY SEAS; 1(5ERMANS NEAR TO LIVERPOOL Madrid, Aug. 7. A dispatch from tho Canary Island says a Uritlsh squadron hns sunk ono German cruls er, tho name of which Is not given nnd has enptured another, which Is being convoyed to Gibraltar. London, Aug. 7. The Allan liner Mongolian, on at riving at Liverpool from Glnsgow wai struck by a gunshot gun-shot at the enlranco to the river Mersey, l'he snell went through her bows. A dispatch lo the London Dally Mall from Tlon Tsln says that the Russian cruiser Askold and the German Ger-man cruiser Emden both havo been sunk nfver an engagemsnt off Wei-, Hal-Wei, China. The Embden was a protected crul scr of 392 tons. Sho carried ten 4.1 Inch guns and was fitted with two torpedo tubes. The displacement of tho Askold was MuS tons. Her nr-mnmont nr-mnmont consisted of twelve C Inch guns, twelve 3 inch guns nr.d eight three pounders. After tho battlo of tho Yellow sea, In tho Russo-Japan-ceo war sho Interned tit Shanghai. Lanco Draws First Blood Tho Uritlsh torpedo boat destroyer Lanco was tho hero of tho first n-vol n-vol engagement in tho present war, sinking tho Hamburg American lino Bteanior Koenlgcn Lulse, which h.Nd been fitted out nH n mine layer. The Lanco fired only four shots. Tho first destroyed tho bridgn of tho steamer, tho third nnd fourth tore away tho stern nnd tho Koenlgcn Lulse sank In six minutes. Tho Lance rescued twc.'.ty-clgh' of tho German crow. Several were wounded. Two of them each lost an arm and four others each liml a leg shot away. Nona of tho LancVo crow was Injured. The Koenlgcn LuIbo was caught laying mines soma sixty miles from Harwich. |
