On the Sea
BRITISH CRUISER SURPRISED.
GERMANS HIT BELOW THE BELT
Received 21, 11.40 p.m. London, September 20.
The Times publishes messages from British East Africa, reporting that the German cruiser Konigsberg unexpectedly attacked the cruiser Pegasus while she was anchored at Zanzibar having her boilers cleaned. The Pegasus was disabled, 25 of the crew being killed and eighty wounded. Tho Konigsberg escaped. MIRACn.OHS ESCAPE OF A DREADNOUGHT. Rome, September 20. Advices from Vienna states that the Dreadnought Viribus Unitia miraculously escaped pursuit in the Adriatic. One side of the ship was demolished. | Tho Austrinn fleet is still lying in i tho Egolda navy yard. 1 [Tim Viribus Unitis is one of the latj est Austrian Dreadnoughts, having been I completed in 1912. She has a tonnage of 20,000 tons, and earries 12 12-incli guns.'}
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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135On the Sea Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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