BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2387, 17 February 1915, Page 5

BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC

SINKING OF A GERMAN CRUISER London, February 15. The "Standard's" Amsterdam correspondent says that the "Berliner Tageblatt," discussing the recent sinking of the German light cruiser Gazelle, is of opinion that large modern British submarines are in tho Baltio. Three, it states, have been at Helsingfors (in tho Gulf of Finland) for some time. The Great Belt is thickly strewn with mines, and the submarines evidently entered by following close in the wake of steamships piloted through the minefields. tThe Gazelle was a German light cruiser of 2645 tons, built in 1897-98, and armed with ten 4.1-inch guns. Sho was reported to have been seriously damaged by a torpedo off Rugeti Island, off the German Baltio coast, about January 25. She returned to the port of Sassnitz. Tho damage was, by implication, credited to a Russian submarine, several of which appeared unexpectedly at RugenJ

SUNK WITH ALL HANDS. THE END OF THE SCHARNHORST. London, February 15. Admiral Sturdeo states that there wero no survivors from the Selmrnhorst, sunk in the naval fight off the Falkland Islands.—"Times", and Sydney "Sun" serviceß. . (The Schamhorat carried about 765 officers and men.)'