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Show ELEVEN GERMAN SHIPSJE SUNK BRITISH MOSQUITO FLEET GOES INTO NORTH SEA AND DEMOLISHES DE-MOLISHES HUN PATROL. Teuton Raiders Believed to Have Been Headed for Another Exploit Like Recent One Near Shetland Isles When They Met Surprise. London. Eleven German ships, perhaps per-haps twelve, one of them an auxiliary cruiser, armed with six-inch guns, were sent to the bottom of the Cattb-gat, Cattb-gat, the large North sea arm between Sweden and Denmark, by a British "mosquito fleet" some time Saturday. Ten of the sunken vessels were patrol craft. The Teuton 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. They may have been the same raiders who got away that time. Sixty-four prisoners were rescued by' the British torpedo craft. Of the crew of the Teuton auxiliary cruiser the Marie, of 3000 tons, thirty were killed outright by the British shell fire. ' Captain Lauterbach, her commander, command-er, and six of his men were picked up by a Danish vessel and taken to Copenhagen. All are more or less seriously wounded. Official announcement of the British naval success sent a thrill through all Britain. It could not have come at a more opportune moment. A great part of the British press, including -some of the government's staunchest supporters, sup-porters, had just unloosed a concerted concert-ed tirade against the admiralty on account ac-count of the recent German raiding success. |