THE WAR.
EARLIER NEWS. By Cable—Bresj Association—Copyright ON THE SEA. BATTLE IN THE BALTIC. BRITISH SUBMARINES' SUCCESSES. Copenhagen, Oct. 15. A British submarine attacked a German cruiser and two destroyers in the Baltic. It torpedoed and sank a defltroyer. The other vessels fled. There was a terrible cannonade off Moen Island on Wednesday morning, when a German cruiser and three torpedo boats were circling round a Britisli submarine. The firing was incessant, when suddenly there was a deafening explosion. A torpedo hit a torpedo ■boat and split it in halves, when it sank like a stone. The submarine remained in the vicinity, but the cruiser and the other torpedo boats fled southward. No survivors were 1 6een. German ships arrived in the evening, but their searchlights failed to locate the submarine. In consequence of the submarine successes German warships are escorting all merchantmen in the Baltic,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 6
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146THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 6
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