Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — BRITISH SHIPS SUNK [ARTICLE]

BRITISH SHIPS SUNK

GERMAN CRUISER DESTROYS FIVE STEAMERS OFF INDIA. Kaiser's Warships in Baltic Fire Upon Each Other While Searching for Boats. London, Sept. 18. —Telegraphing to the Times, Its Petrograd correspondent says: “Reports of disaster to the German fleet In the Baltic have been confirmed by dispatches received here, which declare that German warships fired upon each other. All rumors of engagements with the Russian fleet in the Baltic, however, are untrue. “The information reaching Petrograd is that a numerous flotilla, attended by cruisers, while engaged in hunting down passenger steamers, mistook their own for th« eneiny’s ships and engaged in a lively battle. The number of vessels crippled is unknown, but several cruisers entered Kiel badly mauled and riddled and carrying many wounded.” Tokyo, Sept. 18. —It Is reported here that the German Cruiser Emden has sunk five British steamers ofT the coast of India. The passengers of the vessels are said to have been saved. Queenstown, via London, Sept. 18.— The Holland-America line steamship Ryndam, which sailed from New York September 8 for Rotterdam, was seized by a British warship and brought into Cork harbor.