TWO GERMAN SQUADRONS ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER.
LIVELY BATTLE FOUGHT BEFORE ERROR DISCOVERED !i SEVEN DeSTROYERS DAMAGED AND OTHERS SUNK. | Peteogead, September 18. Confirmation has been received of the statement that the seven German destroyers which reached Kiel on September 3in a battered jgS condition, after a reported battle in which it was alleged that others gjjf were sunk, were damaged in a fight between two German squadrons. . ||ff It is stated that the destroyer flotilla was engaged in hunting for passenger ships in the Baltic when it met a German cruiser squadron. >§f Each mistook the other for a Russian fleet and a lively battle was fought. Several of the cruisers and destroyers were badly mauled .. >V before the error was discovered. -Mpl
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15719, 21 September 1914, Page 6
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