Show J THE NAVAL BATTLE The s nking of the cruisers Scharn orst Gne senau and Leipzig evens matteis cons derably between the Eng llsh and German navies According to fairly well authenticated reports the English have lost fifteen and the Ger mans twelve battleships and cruisers The loss of the Scharnhorst and the Oneisenau cannot be rated as tr fling although they were not dreadnoughts Both were finished in 1908 and were it 11 4a tons They earned 764 men each and were capable of making 22 t knots an hour The Le pzig was a th rd class cruiser jfnished m 1906 with a displace ment of 3350 tons With the ex cept on of the Audac ous an English I- drealnought and the Warr or an Lng cruiser finished n 1907 witi a i displacement of 13 550 tons the Seharnr horst and Gne senau were the most lm portant naval units destroyed smce the j Tvar began J The English battlesh ps and cru sers leetro ed or put out of act on were the Abou Amph on Arethusa Au da ous Bulwa k C essj Good Hope Ha e Hermes Hogup "Vlonmo th Pa hfin T n Aon? d Hat o Tl o an bat le h ps and c u so deatro d or p t o t of act on were the a Ine Berl n Emden One senau Ilea Koln Koenigsberg Le pz g "Uagdebu g M uz Scharn horst and lo c It s to le as med tnat the B t sh squadron was far s per or n strength to that of Adm ral von Spee and therefore no exce t onal renown w 11 attach to the c o y of the Engl sh lv evertheless the ctory will have an in portant r ear ng upon naval opera t ons nasmuch as the only German ra ders st 11 capable of act on are the Karlsruhe the Dresden and the iNu n berg The two latter boats are being p sued and probably w 11 n eet w th the fate of the other sh ps of the r equalron w th n a few a s |