19 DECEMBER 1914, Page 2

Amongst minor items of news we may mention the reported

sinking of the German armoured cruiser, the ' Friedrich Karl,' a vessel of nine thousand tons, in the Baltic. No details are supplied, but two hundred men are stated to have been saved. According to a Reuter message, the ship was sunk during the last Russian sortie in the Baltic. The Russians are also said to have lately sunk a German steamer with Turkish troops on board in the Black Sea. It is further stated that a British squadron on Sunday last bombarded the Turkish troops con- centrated in the Gulf of Saros, but no confirmation of this news has been given by the Admiralty.