Meanwhile, three Austro-Hungarian cruisers under the overall command of Captain Miklós Horthy, SMS Novara, SMS Saida, and SMS Helgoland, had actually passed a patrol of four French destroyers north of the barrage, and thought to be friendly ships passed unchallenged.
U međuvremenu su tri austro-ugarske krstarice pod vrhovnim zapovjedništvom kapetana Miklosa Horthyja, SMS Novara, SMS Saida i SMS Helgoland, zapravo prošle pored patrole četiriju francuskih razarača sjeverno od baraže koji su mislili da se radi o prijateljskim brodovima.