GERMAN DESTROYER RAMMED AND SUNK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 5

GERMAN DESTROYER RAMMED AND SUNK

BRITISH LIGHT CRUISERS IN ACTION The High Commissioner reports: , . „ ... London, March 28, 7.85 p.m. "The Admiralty reports that all the ships which were engaged in the operations on the Holstein coast have returned, with the exception of the Medusa, which sank, all her crew being raved. "A division of German destroyers was oncounterea on Saturday mglifc oj British li"ht cruisers. One German dfistroyer was rammed and sunk by the Cleopatra"; all th-3 German crew was'lost." THE ADMIRALTY'S REPORT. > (Bee. March 29, 7.30 p.m.) London, March 28. The Admiralty reports that the Medusa sank after all her crew had beentaken off in very bad weather, by the destroyer Lassco. It was a fine pieco of seamariship. "Our destroyers, while dealing with the enemy's patrol vessels, l"ere themselves attacked by air craft, but suffered'no damage. We rescued twenty prisoners from the two patrol Gorman trawlers which wore sunk by us. THE ATTACK ON JHE ZEPPELIN SHEDS. / ' Copenhagen, March 28. The Danish newspaper "Politiken" states that the British seaplanes failed to destroy the Zeppelin sheds at Toiidern. THE FIGHT WITH THE GREIF London, Mhrch 28. The Andes, one of the Alcantara's consorts, participated in the light with 1 the disguised cruiser Groif. The Andes, dexterously handled, evaded the torpedoes "and'rained shells on the raider. When the latter had been beaten a British li"ht cruiser appeared, and at a long distance picked up the range MprAn. Thfi mter mt aw nfii-a fore und aft. and blew up, it la aunpofied. through a careo of mines aboard.