London, Apr. 16, British naval losses in Nortth Sea four it is affirmed in an operations since April 8 are only
authoritative quarter in London when questioned about the German claim that British losses were at least four battleships, eight cruisers and eleven destroyers. Naval circles here are of the opinion that the effective strength of the German Fleet consists of one battle cruiser, possibly one pocket battleship, one light Cruiser, eleven destroyers and half the number of U-boats, Of Germany's two battle-cruisers, the Gneisenau has been claimed as sunk by the Norwegians, and the One light cruiser was sunk by the Ursula in December, one hit by a torpedo from the Salmon in the same month in circumstances which raise a strong presumption that she sank, one was sunk by a submarine on April 9, one was hit by one bomb off Bergen on April 9, and the Karlsruhe was sunk on April 10—Reuter,
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