The Germans suffered a naval reverse in the Baltic on
Friday week, losing a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the 'Deutschland' class and the mine-laying cruiser Albatross.' The battleship was torpedoed by a Russian submarine and blew up. The Albatross' was driven ashore on the Swedish coast and interned, as the result of an engagement between four Russian cruisers and a German squadron of light cruisers and torpedo-boats. The ships of the Deutschland' class carry four 11 in. guns and fourteen 6.7 in. guns. The crew would number about eight hundred, but we do nut know how many were rescued. The action in which the Albatross' was driven ashore took place within Swedish waters. The Russian officers may have been unaware of this owing to fog. In any case, the Russian Government have taken the right and handsome course in apologizing frankly to Sweden, and undertaking to warn Russian officers to be more oarefuL
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