Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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otT, without a single casualty, a featwhich elicitetl the coiumundation of theAdmiralty. In the course of the day, a division of British destroyers sighted two Gennan annedpatrol ve.sseLs, the Otto Rudolf and Braun-schweig, overlmuled and sank them Four menwere rescued from the fomier and sixteen fi-ointhe latter. Uliile engagetl with these smallcraft, the British boats were attacked bvGennanaircraft, but they received no damage of anykind. There was a further exciting incidentat night to complete a roimd of unusual ex^jeriences. The British hght cruisore encountereda division of German destroyers, one of whichwas rammed and sunk by the Cleopatra,Captain F. P Loder-Sj-monds. It was notimtil a claim for bounty came before the PrizeCourt on July 17 that the facts of this occurrencebecame known. At 10.15 on the nightof March 25 the Cleopatra was cruising withother ships in the North Sea and was leadingthe column, when those on board saw sparks,which appeared to issue from a coal-burning
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GERMAN SUBMARINE AND CREW. The :U;53 atJNewport, Rhode Island, October 7, 1916, THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR, 59 vessel close on the port bow. The hehii of theCleopatra was immediately put over in orderto ram, and theenemy twodestroyers were thenseen. Steaming at 20 knots, the Cleopatra hit .the rear enemy boat, cutting her in halves, andthe two parts were seen to pass one on eachside of the cruiser. It was impossible to rescueany survivors. It was ascertained that thevessel simk was the G194, and the Germancasualty list showed that 9.3 persons were lostin the sinking of the boat, the prize boixntyawarded at £5 a head being therefore £465. Yet another phase of the Xa\^s work in orabout the Xorth Sea was eomiected with theblockade of Germany. To the London corre-spondent of the BrooMyn Eagle, Rear-AcbniralSir Pudley de Chair, who commanded the tenthCruiser (Blockade) Sqriadron from the outbreakof war to March 6, 1916, when he became XavalAdviser to the Foreign Office, gave a descript

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