BRITISH VICTORY AT SEA; Sink Quartet of German Destroyers Off the Dutch Coast. UNDAUNTED LEADS FIGHT Capt. Fox, Who Sank a Mine Layer and Lost the Amphion, Wins Laurels. ALLIED NAVIES NOW LEAD Fourteen German and Austrian Vessels Destroyed ;- England and Russia Have Lost Nine.
LONDON, Oct. 17. -- Four German destroyers were engaged and sunk off the Dutch coast this afternoon by a British cruiser and four torpedo boat destroyers. According to an announcement made by the Secretary of the British Admiralty, the British vessels in the action were the light cruiser Undaunted and the torpedo boat destroyers Lance, Lennon, Legion, and Loyal.
October 18, 1914
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