REPORTED SINKING OF ATLANTIC RAIDER.
BRITISH CRUISER'S CONTEST WITH SUBMARINE. [Reuters Telegrams.] RIO DE JANEIRO, February 11. There are persistent reports that the German raider has been sunk after an engagement with a British squadron. Reports from Pernambuco, Brazil, state that a British cruiser, which had been searching for the raider, has arrived for repairs after repelling an attack by a submarine. The extent of the damage is not known, but the cruiser bears no marks of an engagement.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 37, 12 February 1917, Page 5
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