Copenhagen, Nov. 26.
Thirty-three members of the crew of the German guardship which struck a mine yesterday near Lange-Tand island, near a German mine eld, are reported to have been saved. Scme twelve are presumed to have perished. The guardship sank within 50" minutes.—Reuter.
Eyewitnesses declared today that the 10,000-ton British cruiser Belfast, which' was damaged by a German mine. oF torpedo. on November 21, appeared to. "explode"
Steaming out to sea, The cruiser was hit" on its starboard side, they said, and "the entire ship was rocked by the explosion, Pour tues towed the Belfast' to the Rosyth Dockyards for repairs.
The cruiser Belfast is the only sister ship of the Edinburgh, which was superficially damaged by splinters when German planes bombed the Firth of Forth on October 16. Both ships are 10.000-ton_ vessels, "The London Star" said today that the Brlfast's boller-room, where a namber of men were working at the time of the explosion, was completely wrecked and. the machinery badly damaged, "One petty officer and three enlisted men were badly injured and fare now at the Dunfermline Hospital, the newspaper said, adding that the Aftcen other men were less severely Injured and are at the Naval Hospital.
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