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We have alluded elsewhere to the interesting sea fight which

took place in the Baltic on the morning of Wednesday, June 14th. Fourteen German merchantmen, convoyed by an auxiliary cruiser and several torpedo-boats and armed trawlers, were attacked by a Russian flotilla of destroyers, torpedo-boats, and submarines in an action lasting forty-five minut3s. It is reported that most of the merchantmen were sunk and the convoying ships dispersed. The German squadron were taken completely by surprise, and only one shot was fired by them before they turned and made for port with all haste—a manceuvre which, if sometimes sound in itself, is apt, as we see here, to be contagious. The German auxiliary cruiser was sunk, and the Germans are now reported to admit this loss.

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