New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-18
Capt. Fox, OH Vessel Sunk
by a Mine August 6, in
Yesterdays Victory.
5 BRITISH WOUNDED.
81 FOES CAPTURED
Cruiser Undaunted Leads Attack
Score in Naval Warfare
Now FavOrs the Allies.

London. Oct. 1.-THE British navy
mas accounted for four more German
destroyers which. encountered off the
Dutch coast this afternoon by a Brit
ish cruiser and four torpedo boat de-
stroyers. were engaged and sunk.
The Admiralty announces that the
British loss was one office; and four
men wounded The damage to the Brit
ish destroyers was slight.
The announcement adds that there
are thirty-onc German survivors,
prisoners of war.
the Secretary of the British Admiralty,
the British vessels in the aetoh were
the light cruiser Undaunted and the
torpedo boat destrOyers Lance, Len
non, Legion apd Loyal. The Undaunt-
ed was commanded by Captain Cecil II.
Fox. who commanded the cruiser AM
phion, which. after sinking the German
armed cruiser Koenigin Luise, was it.
self destroyed by a German mine on
August 6
Thus the British sailors have taken
quick revenge for the sinking by a
German Submarine on Thursday OF the
British cruiser Hawke.
The sinking Of the four warshlps to-
day makes six torpedo boat destroyer,
chat lave been sent TO the bottom OF
the sea BY British guniire since the be-
ginning of the war, and seven when
the torpedo boat destroyer which was
sunk by the submarine E-9 is counted.
In this number and without counting
the converted merchantmen, such as
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and the
Cap Trafalgar, the score now fayors
the Allies, they having sunk SIX Ger
man and one Austrian cruiser and
seven German torpedo beat destroyers,
while there have been uncOniirmed re-
ports of the sinking of several Aus
trian destroyers in The Adriatic Sea.
The Germans have sunk eight BRIT
ish and one Russian cruiser, while
Australia has lost a submarine by ac-
cident. The Russians also claim TO
have sunk two German submarines, but
this the Germans deny.
Up to this afternoon Berlin had not
heard officially of the sinking of the
British cruiser Hawke, which indicates
that the submarine which accomplished
il has not yet returned to port.
A Reuter- dispatch from Alexandra
says:
"The cargo Of the German steamer
Sudmark, which was captured in the
Rcd Sea a month ago, has been de-
stroyed by fire in warehouse here.
"The cargo consisted of tea, jute and
oocoanut and was valued at 100000
(By Wireless via Louisburg' y. 81
Harwich (via London, Oct. H.
News of the Undaunted's brilliant vic
tory was received with great jubilation
here. where it was felt that Captain
Fox. hero of the Amphion and now cap
tain of the Undaunted, has avenged the
loss of his first ship by German
mine.
The Undaunted did not leave port here
until this morning, and at 6 O'Clock
tonight came the news, which has
since been officially confirmed, that she
had accounted for four of the enemy's
craft. The engagement, it is under
stood took place at the mouth of the
Scheldt between and o'clock this
afternoon.
The enemy were deceived by the
presence of vessels that had an hour
previously relieved a patrol, and the
action was Immediately commended
The Undaunted was accompanied by
four destroyers, which rendered brill
liant account of themselves, and one
by one the enemy's craft were put out
of action until four of them were sunk