We deeply regret to record the loss in the North
Sea of the three British cruisers Aboukir," Hogue,' and' Creasy' on Tuesday morning through a German submarine attack. These three sister-ships were engaged in patrol work when the Aboukir' was torpedoed. The Hogue' and Cressy' had closed and were standing by when they were also tor- pedoed. About eight hundred and fifty lives out of the total crews of about two thousand were saved by destroyers, trawlers, and boats. It is thought that five or six German submarines took part in the attack. The cruisers were twelve-thousand-ton ships about fourteen years old. The injury to the Navy is not by any means great when we consider our vast superiority to the German Navy in cruisers. The conduct of officers and men in all the ships was beyond praise. We have written fully elsewhere of the lessons of this affair, and on the place and value of sub- marines in naval warfare.
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