OUR SUBMARINE WAR IN THE BALTIC
! THE SINKING OF THE PRINZ ADALBERT . i GERMAN ADMIRALTY AT ITS WIT'S END By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. October 28, 8 p.m.) London, October 27. A telegram from Berlin to the "New York World" states that the sinking of the German cruiser Prinz Adalbert occurred in the daytime. The cruiser was steaming through heavy weather when two torpedoes struck her almost simultaneously. She was • rent' in twain by the internal explosions in the magazines and boilers, which followed immediately, and disappeared in a few minutes like a piccc of iron. -inc number of drowned is not known. _ The Pi-ins Adalbert had a few devices against torpedo-attack. Tho survivors state that they saw tho trail ot two torpedoes sido by side. It is assumed that the submarine was equipped with tho new double-torpedo tube system ot the latest English models. Tho German Admiralty is confronted with tho practically impossible task of keeping tho British submarines out of tlio Baltic. Petrograd, October 2i. Tho British submarines have sunk four German steamers in tho Baltic.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2605, 29 October 1915, Page 5
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178OUR SUBMARINE WAR IN THE BALTIC Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2605, 29 October 1915, Page 5
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