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Show FOUR MORE BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK GERMAN WARSHIP E M DEN CONTINUES CON-TINUES WORK OF DESTRUCTION DESTRUC-TION IN INDIAN OCEAN. The Official News Bureau Announces That the German Cruiser Has unk Four British Steam-' Steam-' ships and a Collier. London. The admiralty announces that the German cruiser Emden, during dur-ing the last few days, has captured and sunk in the Indian ocean tho British steamers Tumeric, King Lud, Itiberia and Foyle and captured the collier Bursk. The crews of the above vessels were transferred to the steamer Gryfe-dale, Gryfe-dale, which also was captured but released re-leased in order to take the crews to Colombo where they arrived Tuesday. A previous official British statement state-ment dealing with the activities of the German cruiser Emden issued September Sep-tember 20, told of the capture of six British steamers in the Bay of Bengal, Ben-gal, and the sinking of five of them. The names of the steamers were given as the Indus, Loval, Klllim, 'Diplomat, 'Dip-lomat, Frabber and Katinga. After creating havoc among the British shipping at Calcutta the Emden Em-den went to Rangoon. |