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Show SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU AND LEIPZIG DESTROYED BY ENGLISH SQUADRON MOTHER SEA FIGHT BELIEVED ATJAND Cruisers Dresden and Nurnberg Escape, but Are Being Pursued; Two Colliers Taken; British Squadron Com- manded by Admiral I Sir Frederick Sturdee. 1 THINK GERMAN ADMIRAL IS LOST Some Survivors of the Gneisenau and Leipzig Rescued, but None From Flagship of the Gallant and Daring Von Spee. ,JU. (Spec al Cab br AjrmnEement With Loadon Dally egraph aad international evs Service.) LONDON Dec 9 The Bntish navy has squared the account with Admiral Von ''pee. In the mct ternfio naval engagement in point of guns and ton nage yet fought m the war ice Ad miral Sir Frederick C D ''turdee a cruiser squadron engaged the German squadron of A on Spee sank his flagship, flag-ship, the armored cruiser Scharnhort of 11 420 tons its sister ship the Gneisenau and the bght cruiser Leipzig Leip-zig of 3200 tons The light cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden escaped and ar being pursued by the nctonous Bntish fleet. Two colliers attached to the Ger man fleet were captured. The official statement of the ad miralty issued bv the press bureau to night says some survivors of the Gneisenau and Leipzig were rescued, but no mention is made of anv survivors sur-vivors of the flagship Scharnhorst, and it is bel eved Admiral Von Spee went down with h s ship The complements of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau wero "Si men each and that of the Leipzig 303 Thus more than 1800 officers' and men were aboard the three ships sunk, and it is believed the losses will exceed 1500 Fight in South Atlantic The battle occurred yesterday morn ing off the Falkland islands m the South Atlantic 300 miles on! the At lantic entrance of the straits of Ma gellan The Br t sh casualt es are officially reported as three k lied and wounded. It was Admiral on ''pee s fleet which sank the Bnt sh cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth and se erely dam aged the cruiser Glasgow and the con verted cruiser Otranto of Rear Ad miral S r Chr stopher Cradock s fleet off Coronel on the coast of Chile at dusk on undav November 1 The offic al announcement ssued by the adn iralty is as follows -On Tuesday morning the Scharnhorst, Gne senau Nurnberg Le pz g and Dres den were sighted near tie Falk and is ands by a Br tish squadron under Vice Admiral sir Frederick bturdee n action followed ln the couse of which the harnhoret firing the flag of Admiral von pee the Gneisenau and the Upzg were sunk The Dresden and the Nurnberg fled. The are being pursued. Two colliers were a so captured Some surxi ors we e rescued from the Gneisenau and tho Le pztg Dreadnoughts in It The announcement of the admiraltv fa is to s ate wha British ships were engaged for fear of Inform ng he German Ger-man admiralt of the whereabou b of the warships It is suspected that some Eng-1 Eng-1 sh battle cruisers of the dreadnought type 00k part I s assumed that the British ship were in cons derab e numbe as the Scharnhorst and he Gnelse au had al l Don tinned, on Page Twaj BRITISH IK THREE GERMAN RII SHIPS ScKarnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig Sent to Bottom, Admiral Von Spee Believed Be-lieved to Be Dead (Continued from Page One.) ready proved themsel es formidab e and effective un ts in the bat le with Adm ral Cradock s fleet London ton ght s aflame with enthuel asm over the victory Tee s a gen e a conf dence that the Brit sh on land and sea a e s ow y ga n ng t e master hand ove the Germans That the v ctory will be made con plete by he capture or destruct on of the flee ng Dresden and Nurnbe g s gen era 1$ beTeved as the former is able to do only twen y four knots and the atter is a twenty three knot s p It is not conside ed 1 ke y that the adm ra y wou d lend a squadron that d stance ton home unless the vese s were of greater speed an that of the German fug ti es After the e m nat on of these f e nar ships of the enemy s fleet in these wa ters there wou d rema on the Kar s ruhe to be accounted for This German cm ser is embar ed on a roving comm s sion as a des roje of commer e a ca eer much ke that of the Emden and t v.ould g e the Brit sh publ c great sat fact on to hear of her d spatch or capture 44m ra S u d e s f eet has been on the watch for the German fleet for se eral weeks e er s nee t e defeat of Cradock Repo ts ecent y rece ved here we e that the Ge man sh ps tvere bound through the s ra ts fro n the Pac fic en rou e to the Af can coas It s assumed here that the fleet v.as deajed for some unaccount ab e reason and t at Adm ra von "pee vvas bound on th s c ufse hen he was at acked b the Br t sh off the iSilkland is ands on Tuesday mo nlng The a most unbe evab e smal st of casua t es on the Br tish sh ps ind cates to naval observers here that the Brit sh gunners n ust ha e had the ad antage i f om the f r ng of the f rat salvos What probably happened accord ng to naval experts who tonight attempted to supp y deta Is not furn shed b the off c a i statement was that the British sh p& i ying in port at Sal adore or in Fa kland sound s jjhted the Germans as thej werq approach ng from the westward and ran upon them in batt e format on gaining the ad antage on the f rst h s by be ng amp y prepared for the attack Vice Admiral S r Frederick C D Stur j dee as been commanding the second ! cru ser squadron s nee 1912 He is 65 jears od and has been in the navy s nee . 18 1 He was promo ed rear adm ral from j a capta ncy in 1908 As a 1 eutenant he i served In the Egvp an war winning the I Egypt an meda the Alexandria clasp and j the khedive s bronze sta ! Just before h s promotion to an ad I mira cy he served on the staff of the k ng as an aide He commanded the British i force n Samoa n 1899 and for th s ser v ce vas decorated b the king I |