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Show !i PflllEIOIS ,". I THE PHISONERS : j OF THEBRITISH , rrancis Joseph of Hohen-1 Hohen-1 zollern Aboard the Cruiser 1 i 1 Emden, Sunk by the Syd-, Syd-, ney Off Cocos Island. ; 200 KILLED AND 30 I WOUNDED, IS REPORT i!: i , Japanese Warships Leave ' ;i Honolulu Harbor to Search ,.' ' , for Enemy; Four Ger-! Ger-! man Vessels Seen. VALPARAISO, Chile, Nov. 11. ' . j A minor has been circulated here to the effect that the British hat-t hat-t tleship Cauopus haa been sunk off ' L Coronel. This report is officially' j denied by the Chilean admiralty. I 1 LONDON, N"nv. 11, 2:41 p. m. Captain ' J .on Muller of the German L-mlser Emden, j Ahioh was attacked by the Australian ; -miser Sydney and driven ashore in the j rucos island, where she burned, and ; ' ' " I Prince Francis Joseph of Hohenzollern, : !' j me of his officers, are both prisoners of '. ; ' j .var and neither is wounded, according to ' I in announcement by the admiralty this :' . 1 J iflernoon. ', The admiralty adds that the losses on J, ! :he Emden are unofficially reported as ; 1 :Xi killed and SO wounded. No further - details have been received. ' The admiralty has given directions that ,'. 1 . t ill honors of war be accorded to the sur- ' ! -ivors of the Emden and that the captain ; . ) nd his officers are not to be deprived of ; , their swords. ' ' j Prince Francis Joseph of Hohenzollern ' . L ) is the second son of William, Prince of - ; Hohenzollern, head of the non-relgning . nranch of the house. He is 23 years old ' and a lieutenant in the navy. His sister, ; ' Princess Augustine Victoria, was married i : last year to Manuel, former king- of ') : ' Portugal. ; Gunnery Good at First. , j LONDON, Nov. 11, 10:15 a, m. The : Central News has received a dispatch r ' from its correspondent at Melbourne say- ' '. - ing that the gunnery of the German . , ; .' cruiser Emden was good in the beginning of her fight off Cocos island with the Australian cruiser Sydney, but deterio-' deterio-' rated later. The German boat had two ' ' funnels shot away and caught fire astern I within an hour after the beginning of the f-nga.geir.ent. She is now ashore and con- , tin ue to burn. A landing party from the Emden, previous pre-vious to the be?mnine of the fieht, had . " ronimandeered two months' supplies from i the (.'O'.-os islanders, but the peuplc werts well treated. i Ileuter's Telegram cunpany ha re- reived a dipat'h from its Pekin corre-ypcrvient corre-ypcrvient vl.o syys it is reported the-re : : ii;at the Emden was driven ahore on the rovks and severely damaged and that the 1 has broken up. Sydney Not Damaged. HONGKONG. Nov. it. The Australian r-Hjlsfcr Sydney was not d'aniaged In her ' figl'.t with tiie Ge:m;in cruiser Emden off f.'u'-o-: i.-iand. acordii.y to reports reaching The captain of .he- Sydney, according to 1 1, '---' dispatches, said he has Satn only tliir'.y s;!;r Ivors I e '.'" nien supposed to be mi hoard t: if Emden. The German cruiser wus a ve : i in b! shambles. Kuur ' if f !cers and twf nt y- wo men were made : isoners. Canada Impressed. OTTAWA. Ont., Nov. 11. The rtestruc-1 rtestruc-1 tion of the German commerce dstioyer Emden by the Australian cruiser Syd ny has n.ade a nror'ound irnnresalon in Can- i ada. Sir George E. FoH'er, acting prime : minister, ewhlfd the prime minister of A us.tr a !ia ; " rira e Australia ; all Canada corir;j Lulatey you." For some yfnrn Canada .' -a s been con-y con-y j deri iig in waul form a na va I polh ' should ': lfVfj;,el. The d'-monstra tion of r,H vh I eff'f-'-tivr!-;-" by a smter colon ' in g-n-rall:.' commented upon by the Can- i ad inn press. Tribute to Enemy. NKWARK. N. .J ... Nov. 11. "A brav during m;irt," was the commander of liir. criiHf-r IvT.d'ri. l'-rror of t'ue Pacific, ;ic or-i i nif to rtober. Glegg, captain of the liiittsh transport steamer Iovat, one of X t(. ve:-ise!n sunk by the German war? hip i v hi. -h now hy s ben put. ut of action. Th views vi i 'a pla in Gleg(f are pec forth hi -i ktlf- written to his friend, Wll- Iiym Tw-'1'J-Il of South Orang "v'h-.f. 'vin v.-e think." wrote the Tirlt-' Tirlt-' j v i j i-ai.'nin "of h (!jrin rnnn ; pturi ng : ' . ;,:(,' Viikirii :-..'.s ft h'.x v.Hl while O'M 1 i- i !i.'-n T If wa s ;i bra ve man. W'h.'n we left thern tltey were only sev-.r,i sev-.r,i -':. Tidle.-- ffn;i Ivutta . and It w.is ! i- lnt'p'iou z op and sink the pilot : ru';-r iio 1 r y,;- to abandon that Iron- ,V v.'i-li he b;id -irrw it out, ,.' v.;uh ,.;,vc yw;ikened the authori- Ui-'v piaiit GU-gg. v.hoc slilp rai W.HA for two years In ra frying coolies from C-iiina to Calcutta, whs on his way from Calcutta lo embark Indhm troops," whn he was stopped hv t he lilmden a nd his ft earner sont to the bottom within t'urtv minutes after being bombarded. ! Within Their Rights. The crew of t lie Lovat was put ahuard the Harnhurg -American liner Markuman-nia, Markuman-nia, which had accompanied the Emden from Tsingtan as a collmr. "It was not war." writes the captain. "Tt was ruthless destruction. but. of course, they were quite within their' rights In sinking a transport. " W e were t i i ree d a w on boa x the Mark oman nia. where we received every courtesy and kindness we. could ask foi , during which time we saw three more steamers sunk. "On the night of the twelfth th Kil-Hn Kil-Hn of Glasgow and the Kabinga were captured, cap-tured, and on the thirteenth the Klllln, coal laden, was sunk and her crew put on board the Kablnga, which had the captain's cap-tain's wife on hoard, and so was spared. At noon on Sunday the Harrison liner Diplomat was sunk be iorc us all. thus ending a Sabbath of destruction, and right . pitiful it was, I assure you. "I never wish to hear a gun fired again as long as J live, for the sound will ring in my eats to my dying day. , "On Ionday, the fourteenth, we were , put on board the Kablnga for convey- i a nee to Calcutta. and then another steamer, Trabboch of Liverpool, was sighted and her crew put on board with us and their ship sunk, so we mustered 417 in all. apart from the Kalunga own crew, which was tent back to Calcutta. Cal-cutta. I "We received every courtesy and kindness kind-ness from the Germans while in theii-hands." theii-hands." No Trace Found. WASHINGTON. Nov. 11. Eduardo Suarez, Chilean embassador here, was informed in-formed by his government today that Chilean ships sent out to search had not found the slightest trace of the Monmouth Mon-mouth or the Good Hope, the British cruisers reported lost in the recent sea fight with a German fleet off the coast of Chile. On their return to Valparaiso the vessels reported that they had searched carefully over the zone of battle bat-tle without finding a bit of wreckage. Warships Leave Honolulu. HONOLULU. T. TT.. Nov. 11. The Japanese Jap-anese battleship Hizen and cruiser Asa-ma Asa-ma which entered this port yesterday for coal and provisions, left early today for an unknown destination. Rumor has it in the Japanese colony that the warships will rendezvous with a Japanese fleet now nearing the coast of Chile, where it Is supposed to be seeking the German cruisers which defeated Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock's squadron. Two Japanese merchantmen at Hilo are due to clear shortly, but in view of the sinking of the Emden, and the known presence of the remainder of the German Pacific squadron off the coast of South America, it la not believed the Hizen and the Asama will be detailed to convoy them. , LIMA, Pru, Nov. U. A t!rgram from Taltal, Chile, says that a steamer arriving arriv-ing there reports that when off Coquimho, Chile, she sighted four German warships steaming north. j Coquimbo is about 3nn mileg south of ! Taital, and, j allowing for the time of the steamer's passage between the two ports, : the warships may have bpn seen on SaP- I urday or Sunday. Coquimbo is about 450 miles north of Coronel. off which the naval engagement of November 1 was fought. I |
