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Show ENGLISH SHIP IS LOST BY MINE ;H Tnrm. Tan W. A dispatch to the 'jB Daily Mall from Venice says it Is R reported there from Trieste that an Hf Austrian cruiser has struck a mine jB near the Brioni ilanlB and sunk. The Brioni islands aro at the mooth of 'hp harbor of Pola, A u atria's big na-fl na-fl val base and arsenal on the Adriatic ! Ixmdon. Jan. 25 It was officially announced at the admiralty today that the British armored merchant veeel i Viknor bad been lost off IreJand -with Hlj nil hands. The vfK-l, It was sta- m ted either struck a mine or foun- Br dered. m The admiralty. In its statement, flfl A 'S1 ha? been missing fcr some 4 dava, and must now be accepted as lost, with all her officers and men The rausw of her loss is uncertain, but as some bodies and wreckage have u been washed ashore on the north I coast of Ireland, It Is presumed that during the recoct bad weather she either foundered or, being carried out fl of her course, struck a mine in seas where the Germans are known to I - hare laid them." The Viknor was formerly the VI-king, VI-king, and was commandeered by the admiralty on Deoember 12. She was in charge of Commander Brn- J est O BaUantyrwe. Tho number of B her crew cairoot be ascertained. H FISHING CREW SAW H ENGLISH WARSHIP DAMAGED HI Jxindon, Jan. 23. That one of the H' British warships engaged in the North sea battle with the German fleet on B m Sunday morning was damaged, though B, not seriously, by the German fire was j reported by the master of the Dutch B steam trawler Erica, which has Just fl arrived at Ymuiden. according to a H report received by the Central News Hjj from Its correspondent at Amsterdam Hp and passed without comment by the Hi British censor B ! The master of the Enc says that B at 9:30 o'clock on Sunday morning. 1 while the crew of the trawler were fishing 120 miles from Helgoland, they fl suddenly heard firing. They saw a m I German squadron, consisting of six ; large ships and twenty torpedo boats, I j being pursued by a British fleet. I which opened fire. Says the captain I 1 U of the Erica: I ' "We soon saw a German battleship j I Hfl Blnk, The Gennans retired, flehting j 1 as they ran. They were able to J II damage, though not seriously, one of 1 j the British ships. j - j "The German fleet was soon out of j .sight, the British pursuing them The I shelling was ver heavy during the fighting Projectiles fell like rain and greAt. columns of water wore seen I rising In the air " This is the first Intimation that ; has been permitted to pass th British Brit-ish censor from an unofficial source that the British ships of Admiral Sir David Beatty's squadron suffered dam-'age dam-'age in the fight. The censor preW ously had passed without romment the German official claim that one of the British ships was sunk. oo |
