GERMAN CRUISER LOST.
MAGDEBURG RUNS ASHORE,
Amsterdam, Thursday
An official German statement atattH that the cruiser Madgeburg went ashore in a fog at Odenholin Island, in the Gulf uf Finland.
All efforts to refloat her failed, mid a torpedo boat readied the majority of the crew under the fire of tha Russian (lest. Seventeen were killed while eighty-five are missing
f| The Germans blew up the Magdeburg in order to prevent hor falling into the hur.ds of the Russians
(The Magdeburg was a sißter ship to the Breslau, one of the two vessels which ran away from the cruiser Gloucester and took sanctuary in the Dardanelles. Sho waa about the equivalent of the Bristol type, and was of 4478 gross tons, with a speed of 27 \ knots. She carried 4-in. armour, and was armed with twelve 4.1-in. quick-firing guns and two machine guns)
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 5
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143GERMAN CRUISER LOST. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 5
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