GERMAN REVOLUTIONARIES SINK TWO BATTLESHIPS.
TORPEDOED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE.
f§§ - ALLIED PRECAUTIONS AGAINST TREACHERY. Mi?.-;. Australian and N-Z- OVJ>W Association. . LONDON, Not. 17. m* Extraordinary precautions are being taken by the allied navies in f|f connection with handling the German warships. || 1; ', ," The Lokal Anzeiger announces that the battleship Wiesbaden g? attempted to escape from the revolutionaries. She was pursued by a I : \ "l * revolutionary battleship, torpedoed, and sunk. Three hundred of the I ■■?/ crew perished. W< COPENHAGEN, Not. 17. f|y The Freiudenblatt states that the battleship Schlesien, which fled, I;": was torpedoed en route to Norway. •>« s ■■ II & ■ . ' £V The Schlesien was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of 13,200 tons, carrying four ; 'i : f. llin guns, 14 6.7 in guns, and 24 small gnus. She had a speed of 19 knots. H The Wiesbaden was a late type Dreadnought, carrying lSin guns. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17011, 19 November 1918, Page 5
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142GERMAN REVOLUTIONARIES SINK TWO BATTLESHIPS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17011, 19 November 1918, Page 5
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