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Show BRITISH SAVE MM GERMANS Montevideo. Uruguay, Dec. 21 German sailors to the number ot about 1n0, who wore saved during the fighting off the Falkland Islands. December De-cember 8. when the British squadron under Admiral Sir Prederick Srurdee defeated and sent to the bottom a German squadron composed of the cruisers Scharnborst. Gneisenau. Numbers and Leipstg s.iilod from here today for England ou board the m earner Crown of Gallcia They were brought into port yesterday by the Erltish cruiser Invincible with Sir Prederick Sturdee on board. It was learned loday that the Invincible shows signs of being struck by six dilleront shells. Nine men on board of her were wounded, including Com mander Richard 11 D. Townsend. In the course of the reception tendered ten-dered British officers in Victoria hall yesterday, an address of welcome was made by the British minister, A M Innes. In response, Admiral Sturdee "I thank you for this rerpption 1 hope our little victory will improve conditions for British. French, Russian Rus-sian and probably lor Japanese commerce com-merce during this titanic conflict which has just begun We may suffer some reverses, hut our sailors will tratntain their high reputation and all will go well with our army and with our French allies British Made a Mistake. "Lord Roberts reconmic ndpd military mili-tary preparations; had he been lis-tened lis-tened to, the war would have been r.voided. Enplish business men, forgetful for-getful of their true interests. employed em-ployed Germans for reasons of econ-wny, econ-wny, but I hope that the British raer-ciiant? raer-ciiant? and British steamship companies com-panies will profit from thi lesson." Continuing. Admiral Sturde? paid, "that the Germans fought well and were excellent citizens, exeppt when ihey invaded neutral countries and attacked unprotected towns. He declared de-clared that the British squadron had suffered eight men killed and four-t four-t en wounded in the battle of December Decem-ber 8. The engagement commenced at 1 o'cloek and the German cruiser Seamhorst. the flagship of Admiral Yon Spee. went down at 6 o'clock. Un-Cortunately, Un-Cortunately, the German admiral and 'he entire crew lost their lives. The admiral also lost two sons. v- "War is a sad thing," Admiral Slur-dee Slur-dee said in conclusion "The vessels of the enemy menaced our commerce Now they are at the bottom of the oc ?an " |