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Friday 31 May 2019

Turkish cruiser destroyed Russian merchant ships according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad dated Saturday 7 November 1914

An item dated Milano 6 November referred to tidings received from Bucharest reporting that a Turkish cruiser sunk the Russian ship Grootvorst Alexander [Dutch translation of original Russian name] and that her crew and passengers were brought towards Constantinople. Probably was also another Russian ship the Jeruzalem destroyed while since last Sunday there had no been answered to wireless calls.