GERMAN HIGH SKA FLEET COMES OUT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2856, 22 August 1916, Page 5

GERMAN HIGH SKA FLEET COMES OUT

SCUTTLES BACK WITH LOS§ OF TWO SUBMARINES BRITISH LOSE TWO SCOUTING CRUISERS i . The High Commissioner reports;: _ London, 'August 21,. 1.5 p.m. "The Admiralty announces that there was considerable activity by the enemy in the North Sea on Saturday. The German High Seas Fleet came out, but learning from their scouts that :Bfitish forces were in the vicinity in considerable strength,' they avoided an'.engagement; 1 and returned to port. '.'ln searching for the enemy TFe lost the light cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth. All,the officers of the former were saved, but 38 of the crew are missing. All the Falmouth's crew were saved. "One of the enemy's submarines was destroyed; another was rammed, and possibly sunk. The German statement that a British destroyer was sunk and a battleship damaged is untrue." [Nottingham, light cruiser of the Birmingham class, 5100 tons, 25 knots, aino 6-inc]i guns, biiilt in 1914. Falmouth (1911), 5250 tons, eight 6-inch guns, 27 knots.] ■ . GERMAN.OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. (By Telegraph—Press .Association—Copyright). \ . 3 Australian-New Zealand Cable' Association. (Rec. August 21, 7 p.m.). London, August 21. A wireless message from Berlin states"The ; German Admiralty announces that a submarine sank a small British cruiser and damaged a battleship and a cruiser.!' > GEEMAN" SQUADRON WITH ZEPPELIN SCOUTS. ■i (Rec. August 22, 1 a.m.) , i ! London, August 21. The "Daily Telegraph's". Rotterdam correspondent states that trawlers off the Dutch coast on Saturday morning met a squadron of sixteen German warships, accompanied by two > Zeppelins. . ; '