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Show TWELVE BRITISH SHIPSJRE SUNK English Admiralty Reports Damage Done on the High Seas by Kaiser's Cruisers. London, Sept. 2S, 2:45 p m Twelve British ships with an aggregate ton nage of 59,331, hae been sunk on the high seas by German cruisers up to September 23, according to an admiralty return issued this afternoon Eight other British ships, whose ton nage aggregates 2 979. have berm sunk b German mines in the North sea, and 24 fishing craft, with a ton nage of 4.334, have been captured or sunk by the Germans in the same watorp. British ships detained at tier man ports number 74. with a total tonnage of 170,000. On the credit side, the admiralty gives 102 German ships with a total tonnage of 200,000 detained In British ports since the outbreak of the wai Eighty-eight German ships of an ag gre-at tonnage of 283,000 detained or captured by the allies. Fifteen shins with a tonnage of 247.000 were de talned In American porta while four toen others, with a tonnage of 72,000, remain in the Suez canal. The German mines in the North sea hare also to their credit seven Scandinavian ships with a tonnage ot 11.098. on |