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SUBMARINE OUTMANOEUVRES GERMANS. > (Received October 16, noon.) COPENHAGEN, October 15. There was, a terrific cannonade off Moen on Wednesday morning, when a German cruiser and three torpedoboats were seen circling a British submarine. The firing • was incessant, when suddenly there was a deafening explosion as a torpedo hit one of the torpedo-boats, which was split in halves and sank like a stone. ; The submarine remained in the vicinity, but the cruiser and the other torpedo-boats fled southward. No survivors were seen. German ships arrived in the evening, but their searchlights failed to locate the submarine. | In consequence of the submarine success, German warships are escorting all merchantmen in the Baltic. - [Moen is a Danish island at the south-east end of Zeeland, in the Baltic]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8271, 16 October 1915, Page 5
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