A SKIRMISH IN THE NORTH SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2694, 14 February 1916, Page 5

A SKIRMISH IN THE NORTH SEA

GERMANS CLAIM ONE CRUISER SUNK BRITISH REPLY: ONLY A MINE-SWEEPER By-Teleffraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) mi, n „ Lontion, February 12. Ine German Admiralty announces that during an advance, their" torpedo boats met off Dogger Bank several British cruisers, which fled. The German boats pursued and sank a new cruiper, the Arabis, and hit a second cruiser, with a torpedo. \\e rescued the Arabia's commander, two other officers, and twenty-one men." . '" 10 British Admiralty announces that tho cruisers mentioned were four of which tliree have returned safely. ■'V. a r .® n ' c J e s ' naval correspondent ■ expresses the opinion that Arabis is an oil-dnven cargo vessel similar to the Selandria. "There is nff p C! T S '. ,1 01 ' s l l,r P rlse these hostile torpedo craft anpearing off the Dogger Bank. They have probably been keot at Zeebruree only a °h f° rpedo fl btefcs sre5 re small > aIKI s Pee<b' enough to 'slip through the meshes of our fleet cordon on favourable occasions." \ 1