WARSHIP BLOWN UP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 121, 15 October 1914, Page 3

WARSHIP BLOWN UP.

MADGEBURG STRANDED IN BALTIC. HEAVY LOS 9 OF LIFE REPORTED. London, August 28. The report of another disaßier to the German, naval forces reached London last nighlt; in the following telegram from Amsterdam: — An official announcement issued by the German Admiralty says: •'The light cruiser •Madgeburg ran ashore in a fog on the Island of Cden*holm, at tftie entrance of the Gulf of Finland. ''Owing to the thick weaWher <the other German warships in the vicinity were unable to render assistance am! all efforts to refloat -Hie vessel ihaying failod tiio captain decided to sacriAoo her as a snpaiior Russian naval forco, was preparing to attack. ""Under heavy fire from the Russian fleat, the majority of tsl« crulfitl'V »-; were Bav«l by '.t«tJ»J^" l>o!lt V2(i *' men were killed and 21 wounded. Eighty-five axe missing, including tlie captain. "The Madgeburg was blown up. The f/UIYivOTa reached a German harbor to-dayt" Though not one of Mie largest vessels of the German fleet, the Madgeburg , was one of the fa3;tes.ti of the light cniilsers. She was built at Bremen, being completed in June, 1012, and had a ' ■length of 440 feet and beam of 43 feet. With horse-power of 22,300, bur turbines developed, a speed of 28 'kinois. She was equipped witlh 12 4.1 inch guns, and had two torpedo tubes . The news of the disaster is Mis more important from the information it gives that the Russian fleet is in the neighborhood of tHio northern outlet from the Kiel Canal, whor e itJic main German fleet is in shelter. '

It \t a noteworthy fact that tho Madgeburg is a sister ehip of the Btcslau, ihe Genrnnn cruiser which ran away ignominiously when chased in tho Mediterranean by H.M.S, Gloucester. The two German cruisers were "laid down" on flhe same day.