Show ELEVEN GE GERMAN SHIPS ARE SUNK BRITISH MOSQUITO FLEET FLEET GOES INTO NORTH SEA AND DEMOLISHES DEMOLISHES DE DE- HUN PATROL Raiders Believed to Have Been fleen Headed for Another Exploit Like Recent One Near Shetland Isles When They Met Surprise London Eleven Ele Eleven German ships perhaps perhaps per per- I haps twelve one of them an auxiliary cruiser armed with six-Inch six guns were sent to the bottom of the Catte- Catte gat nt the large North sea arm between Sweden and Denmark by a British mosquito fleet some sonic time Saturday Ten of the sunken vessels were patrol craft The fleet It is believed was headed for an exploit like the recent one near the Shetland isles when nine Scandinavian ships and two British destroyers were sunk The They may have een Seen the same raiders who got away uway that time Sixty four p prisoners were rescued by bythe bythe bythe the British torpedo craft Of the crew cress of the auxiliary cruiser the Marie of tons thirty were killed outright by the British I shell fire Captain Lauterbach her commander command command- er and six of his men were picked up b by a Danish vessel and taken to Copenhagen All are more or less seriously wounded O Official l announcement of the British naval success sent a thrill through all Britain It could not have come at amore u a more opportune moment A great part of the British press including some of the governments government's staunchest supporters supporters supporters sup sup- porters had just unloosed a concerted concert concert- ed tirade against the admiralty on account account account ac ac- count of the recent German raiding success Sir Eric Geddes was the target of violent criticism for his explanation In the commons and particularly for forthe forthe forthe the admiralty report which was characterized characterized char char- b by one paper as obscure and aull ver very |