Peking, Oct. 10. The following official telegram has been received from the Foreign Office dated October 9.
According to an account published in certain foreign newspapers, no doubt on information supplied from German sources, British naval losses amount to one battleship namely Fisgard LI, ten cruisers, four de-one scout, one gunboat and rine. As a matter of fact in war-like operations six cruisers two light and four old one gunboat and, as a result of accidents, the Fisgard IT, an old bulk fitted for training engine-com artificers, one submarine and one armed merchant cruiser. The Germans have lost five cruisers and we armed merchant cruisers and "me minelayer, one destroyer, one (trpedobont and one submarine
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