LONDON--The British Admiralty tonight admitted that "a torpedo or a mine" damaged the new 10,000-ten cruiser Belfast near the entrance to the Firth of Forth Tuesday, the same night that a mine sank the destroyer-Gipsy.
The Admiralty announcement said that 30 crew members were wounded, of whom five were hospitalized for minor head wounds and shock. The cruiser is being repaired, it added.
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