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Show BRITISH VICTORS IN NORTH SEA BATTLE ATTEMPT OF GERMAN SQUADRON TO REPEAT ATTACKS ON ENGLAND ENG-LAND FRUSTRATED. Armored Cruiser Bluecher Sunk and Two Battle C-ruisers Seriously Damaged in Running Fight in the North Sea. London. An attempt by a German cruiser squadron to repeat the attack recently made on Scarborough, the Hartlepools and other British coast towns, was frustrated Sunday by the British patrolling squadron, and in a running fight in the North sea the German armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two battle cruisers were seriously se-riously damaged. The British ships suffered only slight injury. So far as is known, only 123 of the Bluecher's crew of 855 were saved. A battle also occurred 'between the light cruisers and destroyers accompanying accom-panying the bigger ships, but the result re-sult of this engagement has not yet reached the admiralty. The Germans were observed some time after dawn proceeding in the direction di-rection of the British coast. When they sighted the superior British fleet they turned and made at full speed for home waters and it was only after a stern chase that the faster British ships got within range of them. For more than four hours the running run-ning battle lasted, the firing being plainly heard in North Holland, where it was judged the fight took place north of the islands of Ameland and Schiermonnik-Oog. The Bluecher, which was slower than the other German cruisers, fell behind and succumbed to the heavier guns of the Lion, which was leading the British squadron. The other German Ger-man ships got within the mine and submarine area, two of them in a badly bad-ly damaged condition and it was dangerous dan-gerous for the British battle cruisers to follow. |