The naval side of the war has been distinctly sporadic with but three engagements that involved more than a pair of duellists, the German fleet keeping carefully within harbour, and seeking by means of submarines and mines to lessen the immense superiority of the British fleet. On August 5 the Koenigin Tonise, a mine-layer, was sunk near the mouth of the Thames by H. M. Amphion, but on the 7th the Amphion" herself struck a mine and sank. On September 7 M.S. Pegasus was disabled by the Koenigsburg while repairing her machinery at Zanzibar: and on the 92nd the Aboukir, Hague and Cressy, cruisers of 12,000 fons built in 1901-2, were for nedaed by submarines in. the North Sea, with a loss of 1.400
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