Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-23
DISASTER TO BRITISH WARSHIPS
WITH $500 LOSS, BERLIN CALLS
FEAT OF SINGLE SUBMARINE
Survivors Landed Holland and England Tell Story OF At
tack by Destroyers-Snkng Warshp Shells Submarine
Berlin Reports No Casualties in North Sea Encounter.

Cressy was bravely firing her guns
as she sank at two of the German
submarines, and these are reported
have been sent to the bottom. AS
lie Flora was getting ready to steam
away with the rescued sailors some
British destroyers appeared in
sight.
A special word Of praise is due to
Captain Voorharn, of the Flora,
rsgfiU.ns ssffh-only eighteen men iR his
crew. carried out the work of rescue
with the greatest skill Owing to the
roughness of the sea. the task of
taking on board men stiff with tho
cold was extremely difficult, and
many of them had to be handed up
by means of ropes. The Dutch crew
attended to their wants with the
greatest kindness. and freely gave
them clothes from their meagre
store.
1t is understood the British sailors
will leave tomorrow for place
where they must remain for the du-
ration of the war.
BERLIN, via The Hague, Sept. %.
in announcing the successful eX-
plot of the German submarine
squadron which sank three British
cruisers, the official war Office bulle-
tin issued today makes no mention
of any German casualties. This is
believed to indicate that the sub
marines successfully returned to their
base undamaged. The announcement
of the successful raid has greatly
cheered Berlin. on all sides it is
pointed out as an excellent revenge
for the British operations against the
patrol cruiser squadron at Helgoland.
by the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sept 23.--The sudden and
silent destruction of three big cruis-
ers which cost $12.000000 has brought
home the risks of modern naval war
fare. The unseen enemy crept upon
the Aboukir. then the Hogue and
then the Cressy. and one after anoth-
er the cruisers keeled over and sank.
The whole affair was over in twenty
minutes. The survivors, who have
been brought to Dutch and British
ports, declare there were three Ger
man submarines in the attacking
force, some say five and that the
cruiser Cressy, or the Lowestoft, ac-
counted for two of them.
The admiality however. does not
yet confirm the statement that any of
the German craft were destroyed and
1t is possible that none was even seen.
The experts say that submarine
might easily slip from Emden on the
upper mouth of the channel, and at
tack any British ship it happened to
meet and return home.
Neither the navy nor the nation, as
their feeling Is voiced in the newspa-
pers, is dismayed, and the call on the
admiralty is for more aggressive ac-
D1f RcrH h. ltsa1sr r,atl lHyn q
sented of sealing the Germans up in
their harbors with mines IL their
strategy of keeping their big ships at
home and making raids with sub
marines proves consistently effective.
The British public finds some COM
pensation for these naval losses in
the statement of the admiralty last
night that the command of the sea
had resulted in the maintenance of
ocean traffic by 1000 merchantmen,
with the loss of only twelve by cap
ture since the beginning of the war.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 2S The corre-
spondent of the Daily Telegraph at
Rotterdam sends this story Of the
sinking OF the three British cruisers
by German submarines: Captain
Berkhout, of the steamer Titan, who
saved over 100 Of the rBitish sailors,
witnessed the fight between the
cruisers and the submarines. Some of
the rescued sailors claim that two out
of three of the attacking submarines
were sunk. AS will be seen only one
submarine was seen sailing off. Cap
tain Berkhout told me the following
story:
THE fight took place about Z o'clock
this (Tuesday) morning, at which
time | saw a German submarine tear
ing away at great speed.
Far away on the horizon ! saw
three cruisers, the Aboukir, Gressy
and Hogue, and after while / no.
ticed that one of them had gone.
did not pay particular attention at
the time, but when ] next turned to
look for them | noticed another had
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