London, Dec. 16, The Admiralty "announced at 10 'o'clock this morning that the British submarine Ursula reports she sank a German cruiser of the Koeln felass at the mouth of the River Elbe on Thursday. The cruiser, the announcement adds, was screened by six. destroyers, Reuter learns, on good authority, that this action has no connection with the reported attack on a German cruiser by the submarine which sighted the Bremen, The cruiser Koeln, which has displacement of 6,006, tons, has a cahploment of S71, She has two sister-ships, the Keenisberg and the Karlsruhe, Tt is presumed that this is the class to which the Admiralty com. munique referred, Vessels of this class mount nine'59 inch and 3.5 neb guns and 12 torpedo tubes. [They carry two aircraft and have a speed of 32 knots and a radius of 5,000 miles—Reuter, Acclaimed Great Feat
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