The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-09-22
NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS
IN FAR OFF SEAS
Important Encounters Reported
by British Admiralty.
REPORTS ARE IMPARTIAL.
The Cruiser Emden Has Been
Active Against the Ships of
England.

days, so far as the British public
knows, but the admiralty tonight is
sued bulletins of important encount-
ers in far off waters. Successes and
misfortunes were chronicled i'm
partially.
The German protected cruiser
Koenigsberg caught the British
British cruiser Pegasus overhauIing
her machinery in Zanzibar harbor
this morning and attacked and dis
abled her. The British lost heavily
and the Koenigsberg was able to
steam away
The German cruiser, while of the
same class as the British, had more
modern guns, which outranged those
of her antagonist.
The British loss is given as %
killed and so wounded.
The German cruiser Emden cap
tured six British merchant steamers
in the Bay of Bengal i'm six days and
sank five of them. The Emden re-
appeared at Rangoon. possibly hav-
ing taken part in other exploits as
yet not known.
On the British side of the score
was the sinking of German mer-
chant cruiser, supposed to have
been the Cape Trafalgar or the Ber-
lin, to the former Cunard liner
Carmania, also armed as a cruiser,
on September Ia in waters which
the admiralty described as "off the
east coast of South America"
The British loss was nine killed
and % wounded. The German loss
is unknown.
The British cruiser Cumberland
reports small encounters between
small British and German craft in
the Kamerun river in which the
British had the better of it,
DID GOOD WORK.
The admiralty reports says that
since the outbreak of the war the
Pegasus, under command of John \.
lnglis, had been working from Zan-
2ibar and had rendered useful ser
vices, including the destruction of
Dar-es-Salaam, seaport in German
East Africa, the sinking of tho
German gunboat Move and a float
ing dry dock.
Early this morning" continues
the statement she was attacked by
the Koenigsberg while anchored in
Zanzibar harbor cleaning boilers and
repairing machinery. The Pegasus,
tai en- at a disadvantage and some
what outranged by the newer four
inch guns of the Koenigsberg, was
completely disabled after suffering
loss, unofticially reported at 25
killed and so wounded This is a
high proportion of a crew of PA.
The damage done to the Koenigs-
berg is not known She was last
, seen steaming to the southward
con September 10 the German
cruiser Emden from the China sta
tion, after being completely lost for
six weeks, suddenly appeared in the
Bay of Bengal, and during the pc
riod including September 10 to IA.
captured six British ships-the
Indus, Lovat Killim, Diplomat.
Frabbock and Katinga, OF which five
were sunk and the sixth was sent to
Calcutta with the crews of the 9th.
ers The Emden is now reported
at Rangoon and it is possible she
| has made other captures.
CARMANIA IN ACTION.
THE British auxiliary cruiser Car
mania, Capt. Noel Grant, royal navy.
went into action September IA off
the east coast of South America with
a German armed merchant cruiser,
supposed to be the Cape Trafalgar or
Berlin, mounting eight four-inch
guns and pompoms. The action
lasted one hour and As minutes,
when the German ship capsized and
sank, her survivors being rescued by
an empty collier.
"Of the Carmania's crew, nine
men were killed and five seriously
wounded None of the officers was
injured
"The British steamer Cumberland,
Capt. Cyryl Fuller, r. NJ. reports
from the Kamerun river that a Ger
man steamboat on the night of Sep