TWO GERMAN CRUISERS THOUGHT TO BE SUNK.
RESULT OF OPERATIONS IN BALTIC SEA. (Received August 27, 2 ami London, August 26. The Daily News Paris correspondent says that a Russian submarine, on August 2.3. sank the German cruiser Augsburg at a point north of Dantzig, in the Baltic. French naval experts believe that the German cruiser Thetis was sunk in the Gulf of Riga.
The Augsberg, 4250 tons, was completed in 1910 and was armed with 12 4.1 m and 4 2.1 m guns. She had a speed of 27 knot*, and carried 379 men. The Thetis was a small cruiser of 2618 tons. She carried 10 4.lin guns and a crew of 275 men, and could attain a speed of 21.8 knots The Thetis was completed in 1901.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16007, 27 August 1915, Page 8
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129TWO GERMAN CRUISERS THOUGHT TO BE SUNK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16007, 27 August 1915, Page 8
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