BRITISH AND GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES COMPARED.
TEN CRUISERS GONE ON EITHER SIDE. BATTLESHIP canopus believed to BE SAFE. London, November 16. The British have now lost five armoured cruisers The IJnsrue, Aboukir, Cressy, Good Hope and Monmouth, and the Germans one— The Yorck. The British have lost five light cruisers Amphion, Pathfinder, Pegasus, Hawke, and Hermes, and the Germans ninethe He!a, »ln, Ariadne, Mainz, Magdeburg, Cormoran, Konigsberg, Emden, and one other sunk by the Russian cruiser Bayan in the Baltic. In minor craft the losses are. —Gunboats: British, 2; Germans. S. Armed liners: British, 1; Germans, 3. Submarines: British, 2; Germans, 5. The Germans have also lost two mine-layers, eight destroyers, and on© torpedo boat. The German losses are quoted from an official list issued in Berlin. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill said there was every reason to believe that H.M.S. Canopus was safe. The Canopus was specially sent to the Pacific to strengthen .Wm ni Cradock's squadron, but apparently did not arrive in time to participate in the action off the coast of Chili. There has been no mention of her since the arts.-;:.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 7
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