ON THE SEA.
IN THE BALTIC. GERMANY'S IMPOSSIBLE TASK. FOUR MORE VESSELS SUNK. Received Oct. 28, 8..1 p.m. New York, Oct. 27. The Berlin Admiralty is confronted with a practically impossible task of keeping submarines out of the Baltic. PetTograd reports that British submarines have sunk four German steam 1 - ers in the Baltic.
LOSS OF A GERMAN CRUISER.
STRUCK. BY TWO TORPEDOES. Received Oct. 28, 8.5 pjn. New York, Oct. 27. A Berlin telegram to the New York (World -states that the sinking of the Priuz Adalbert occurred in daytime. Sh« was steaming in heavy weather, and two torpedoes struck her almost simultaneously. The cruiser was rent in twain, and tlie internal explosions of the magazines and boilers which followed immediately caused her to disappear in a few minutes likte a piece of iron. The number drowned is unknown. The Prinz Adalbert had few devices against torpedoes. Survivors state that they saw the trails of two torpedoes side by side, and assumed that the submarinje was equipped with the new Rouble torpedo tube system of the latest , English models.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 5
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180ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 5
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