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Show RUSSIAN CRUISER SUNK; CREW IS LOST RUSSIAN CRUISER .. he..cc Llrt German Submarines In the Baltic Sea Make Succetiful Attack Petrosrad, Oct. 12. An official communication issued today announces announc-es that on October 11 the Russian armored ar-mored cruiser l'allada was torpedoed In tho Baltic sea by a German sub-niarlno sub-niarlno and sank with all her crew. Tho text of the communication which was mado public by tho marine department, follows: On October 10, German submarines wcro sighted In the Baltic Sea. The same day, early In tho morning, tho submarines attacked the cruiser .Ad mlral Makarov, which had stoppod to search u suspected bark flying the, commercial Hag of tho Netherlands. A submarino of tho enemy launched launch-ed sovcral torpedoes, which luckily missed tho mark and caused no dam-ago dam-ago whatsoever to the cruiser. On October 11 nt 2 o'clock In the attornoou the submarines ot tho enemy en-emy again attacked our crulsors Bay-uu Bay-uu nnd Pullada, which wore patrolling patroll-ing tho Baltic. Although tho cruisers opened a very strong fire, ono of tho submarines Bticteodod in launching torpedoes against tho l'allada, whereupon an ex plosion resulted and tho cruiser sank with all her crow, Tho armored cruiser Pullada car-rlod car-rlod a compliment ot 568 men. Sho measured 443 feet and had a displacement displace-ment of 7775 tons. Hor spoud was twenty-two knots. With thi Admiral Murakov and tho Bayan sho constituted consti-tuted a group of crulseru known as tho "Bayan clans." Tho Pallada carrlod two 8 Inch guns; eight 6 inch guns; twenty-two 12 pounders, and four 3 pounders, adt dltlon to torpedo tubes, Sho was laid down In 1005. |