FIGHT AT WAI-HAI-WEI
BETWEEN GERMAN AND RUSSIAN CRUISERS , > ' BOTH SUNK. (Received August 7, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, 6th August, 2.30 p.m. The Daily Mail's Tientsin correspondent reports that /the German cruiser Emden engaged the Russian cruiser Aakold at Wei-Hai-Wei, and that both were sunk. / [Wei-Hai-Wei is a harbour in the Chinese peninsula of' Shantung. It is held by Britain on lease from China. Both the Askold and the Emden were protected, but unarraoured, cruisers, their only devices for stopping projectiles being protective decks and armouring about the ammunition hoists and other particularly vital details. The Aakold was a vessel of, very striking appearance, derived chiefly from four very lofty funnels. She was of 6500 tons displacement, 444 feet long, 49 feet beam, and 21 feet draught. She was built in 1900, and was armed with twelve 6-inch guns arid twenty-two smaller ones. She had a s^eed of 23 knots, and carried 580 men. The Emden was much smaller, displacing 3600 tons, 387 feet in length, 43 feet beam, and 18 feet draught. She was built only in 1908, and carried ten 4.1-inch guns and a few smaller ones. Her speed was 24£ knots, and her complement 321.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 33, 7 August 1914, Page 7
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