REPORTED SINKING OF TWO COMMERCE DESTROYERS.
TRAPPED BY CRUISER DISGUISED AS A COLLIER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK. March 22. Passengers by a steamer from Buenos Aires state that three German raiders were trapped in tho South Atlantic on February 21. It is reported. that a British cruiser was badly damaged in the fight. Two of the raiders were sunk, but the third escaped. A British cruiser disguised as a collier lured the 'raiders on until two other cruisers joined her.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16497, 24 March 1917, Page 7
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83REPORTED SINKING OF TWO COMMERCE DESTROYERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16497, 24 March 1917, Page 7
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