MYSTERIOUS SUNKEN CRUISERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS SUNKEN CRUISERS

iWHAT WERE THEY?

Early in the war, in the days when the Goeben and Breslau were reported in half a dozen different places at one and'the sfl'me'time, it was reported that two German cruisers had been taken into Hong-Kong in a badly battered condition. Nothing more was ever heard as to the'identity of ■' these cruisers, and all the German vessels known to be in the Pacific have since been.' accounted for fiom time to time. The story of the battered cruisers was therefore regarded as akin to that of the fight between the Emden and the Russian cruiser Askold, in which both vessel were sunk off Kiaochau early in' August. Last night's American mail; however, brought to hand a copy of the "Literary Digest," of New York, of: October 10, containing a picture of "Two" German oruisers sunk in HongKong harbour—from a Photograph re-. produced inthe " 'Japan Advertiser." , The "Literary Digest 5, is a sober and generally reliable American weekly paper, and the "Japan Advertiser" is a well-known journal in the Far East. No letterpress accompanies the illustration, but in it two large three-fun-nelled warships can 'be seen, considerably knocked about, and apparently aground..