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Show INAVAL BATTLE ISJII1NENT Dover, England Nov 4. via London, Nov. 4, 12:35 a m. The report is being be-ing circulated that the German fleet has come out from its base It is also reported from Dunkirk that four battleships and four cruisers have put to sea from Kiel. Valparaiso. Nov. 3 Admiral Gerof Von Spec, commander of the German fleet in Pacific waters, arrived here this morning and made the following report concerning a naval engagement engage-ment with British warships at sea off Coronel last Sunday eening: "On Sunday. November 1. between 6 and 7 o'clork, In the evening, during dur-ing a heavy rain and rough weather off Coronel wo sighted the British men-of-war Hood Hope, Monmouth and Glasgow and the armored transport Otranto. "An engagement ensued immediately. immediate-ly. All the ships began .i brisk cannonade can-nonade with all their artillery. "The Monmouth was sunk and th Good Hope, after a great explosion on board, took fire. Her subsequent fate Is unknown, owing to darkness having set in. "The Glasgow and the Otranto also were damaged, but the darkness prevented pre-vented our obtaining knowledge of the extent of it ' Our ships, the Scharnhorst and Nurnberg, were not damaged. The Gneisenau had six men wounded. The rest of our ships also were undamaged. An official report issued later In the dav by Admiral Geraf Von Spec said that the German fleet engaged with the British Fquadron, consisted of the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau Gneisen-au Nurnberg, Leipzig and Bremen. I The Britishers were the cruisers Glas- gow, Good Hope and Monmouth and the transport Otranto. "The action lasted nearly one hour." the report said, "and it was only discontinued dis-continued nt nightfall The English were forced to gie way The Good Hope was so badly damaged that she waB unable to resi6t and could onlv make her escape protected by the darkness Between her funnels the result of the big explosion could be detected "The Monmouth, under identical conditions, tried to escape, but was followed by a small cruiser and sunk with a few shots Loss of Life Terrible. "Owing to the hurricane that was blowing no boats could be lowered, and consequently there was a terrific loss of life. "It is supposed that the Glasgow and the Otranto. which were badly damaged, were able to make their escape es-cape owing to their speed and the darkness. "The Germans suffered little or no damage "Only two men wounded were reported re-ported in the Gnelsenau's crew." In the naval circles here it is said that the action took place twenty miles off St. Maria island, whence the flashes of the guns could he seen but no detonations heard English Guns Outranged. The Germans opened fire at 9000 meters and the English when they came within f.OOO meters of the enemy. They already had been badly damaged. dam-aged. The Monmouth received a terrible ter-rible broadside, according to the naval officials, and this, combined with the hurricane, soon resulted in her sinking. sink-ing. The Good Hope escaped on fire, but shortly after a terrific explosion ' was heard and her loss is regarded as certain. The Glasgow escaped to Tal-cahuano, Tal-cahuano, badly damaged. The Germans declare that the English Eng-lish founght bravely, but their artillery artil-lery was Ineffective. It is believed here that the British ships were at tacked by the complete German flvinc fleet. Armed transportg and the cruisers Leipzig and Bremen are keeping watch off Talcahuano to capture or sink the Glasgow should she attempt to escape. If the Glasgow does not come out of the harbor. It is said, she will be dismantled and Interned.' Anglo-Jap Fleet Near. The German fleet will leave here tomorrow. It is reported that a powerful pow-erful Anglo Japanese fleet Is on its way to South Pacific waters. All British steamers In ports In this vicinity are remaining at anchor temporarily tem-porarily as the result of the naval battle. The Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were perforated in various parts by shells during the battle, but the injuries in-juries they sustained were of no consequence. con-sequence. The Bremen is a small cruiser of 3200 tons and is a sister ship of the Leipzig. Glasgow Is Damaged. Santiago. Chile, Nov. 3. The British Brit-ish cruiser Glasgow is also reported to have been badly damaged In the naval battle off Coronel. The British cruisers Good Hope. Monmouth and Glasgow were under command of Rear Admiral Sir Christo pher Craddoclc and had been searching search-ing the coasts of South America for several weeks with the object of engaging en-gaging the German warships which I had been destroying British merchant vessels. The British cruiser Monmouth, reported re-ported sunk In the engagement today, was 440 feet long and 68 feet beam, and of 9800 tons displacement. She carried fourteen six-Inch guns, eight three-inch guns, three three-pounders and wab fitted with two eighteen inch torpedo tubes Her complement was 865 men. The Monmouth was built in 1809 The Good Hope, also reported lost, was the flagship of the squadron. She was 50q feet lone, 71 feet beam and displaced 14,100 tons. She represented represent-ed the British1 nation at tho Jamestown James-town exposition in 1907 Her armament arma-ment consisted of two 9 2-lnch guns, sixteen six-inch puns, fourteen three-inch three-inch puns, three three pounders and two eighteen-lnch torpedo tubes. She had a complement of 900 men. The Ce.od Hope was built thirteen vears ago. The light cruiser Glasgow, which took refuge at Coronel, was built In 1909 Sue was 430 feet long. 47 feet beam and displaced 4820 tons She had a complement of 37c. men Her armament consisted of two six-inch guns and two four-Inch guns. She was equipped with two eight-inch torpedo tubes. Sir C hristopher Craddock, who commanded com-manded the squadron, was in charge of the British fleet in Mexican waters at the time American marines occupied occu-pied Vera Cruz The German armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are sister sis-ter ships of U.fiOO tons. Hoth were built in IS06 and ate 440 feet long on the water line. They have a complement comple-ment of 7C5 men Each of the two es-sels es-sels carries eight 8.2-Inch and six-inch six-inch guns, twenty twenty-four-pound-ers and four machine guns. Each has four torpedo tubes. Both the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau on September 22 last bombarded bom-barded and destroyed Papeete, the principal town and port of the French Island of Tahiti in the Society group in the Pacific ocean They also sank the dismantled French gunboat Zclee in Papeete harbor The Nurnberg is a small cruiser of 3540 tons and carries a complement of 295 men. She has ten 4 1-inch guns, eight five-ponnders, four machine guns and two torpedo tubes. This is the vessel which is believed to have cut the cable connecting the United States with Australia in September, Sep-tember, shorth after she had ft Honolulu German Ships Missing. The Bermen and the Leipzic which which are reported to have been en-j en-j gaged in the battle, but the where-I where-I abouts of which following it have not been divulged, also are small cruisers. The Bremen is of 3200 tons and the Leipzic of 3250. (They have respectively, respec-tively, complements of 321 and SC men. The Dresden carries ten 4 1-inch, eight flve-pounders and tour machine guns and two torpedo tubes while the armament of the Leipzic consisted con-sisted of ten 4-1-inch ten one-pounders four machine guns and two torpedo tubes. |
