GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER
SUNK BY AUSTRALIA t> London, February 4. Router s Buenos Aires correspondent reports tliat H.M.S. Australia sank a German auxiliary cruiser, a Woermann liner, off Patagonia. Buenos Aires, February 4. _ The crew of the sunken Woermann liner baa been convoyed to the Falkland. STEAMER SUNK. OFF BRAZILIAN COAST. (Rec. February 6, 0.45 a m J London, February 5. An officer on H.M.A.S. Australia, in a letter, states: "Wo sighted a steamer off the Brazilian coast on January 6, at a distance of twelve miles, and chased her for fivo hours, when she surrendered. Tho crow of ninety-nine were taken off. Two twelve-inch shells were fired into tho superstructure, and two~fourinohers below the water-line. The steamer sunk in twenty-fivo minutes. The cargo was worth a quarter of a million sterling.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2378, 6 February 1915, Page 7
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132GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2378, 6 February 1915, Page 7
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