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Show SOUTH ATLANTIC i NAVAL BATTLE; 1 :j Buenos Aires, Argentina Dec 17 ' The Orman eruisors sent to the hot lorn off the Falkland islands on De c ember S apparently were taken un awares by the British at a time when neither side was expecting an encounter. encoun-ter. The first detailed accounts of the battle, which reached here today, from Puerto Callegos. Patagonia, say thai the Germans were on their way to seize the Falkland Islands British possessions, when they eame unexpecc-edh unexpecc-edh upon B lone British warship. The other members of the fleet were taking tak-ing on supplies from neighboring islands is-lands at the time Before the Or mails were aware of the strength of I their opponents these ships closed n on them ant) the fat- of dmiral Von Spec's squadron was soon sealed. 'Ihe story of the battle Was told by passengers on the British steamei Orissa. which arrived at Punta Arenas Are-nas from Callao. Chile. Thev Hatha! Ha-tha! the Germans fought bravely to the end. even the colliers refusing to surrender Losses of the British were placed al cicln men. it was a formidable British squadron squad-ron which faced the Germans. in eluded in it were the battleship t'ann-pus, t'ann-pus, the battle cruisers invincible an I Inflexible and the , ruisers Ken' Cornwall, Carnarvon, Bristol and filas-now filas-now li far outmatched in strength the German squadron consisting dr the five cruisers Scharnborst, i.nei senau. Leipzig. Nurnh'-rt; and linden. lin-den. The British squadron arrived at i Port Staulej Falkland Islands, on !-- cember 7 to take on supple s The next morning the CanopUS, whic h was guarding thp entrances to the port, sighted a hostile warship Four others quickl came Into view and were recognized as the squadron of Vdmlra Von Sp-.- The German war-Ships war-Ships bad left the Chilean islands I of Juan Fernandez on November J 5 i for the Falkland islands to take possession pos-session of the islands and destroy th-3 wireless : t at ion. Rushed Into Fight. ()nl the Canopus was visible al ( i irsi tn the Germans, w ho steamed ; straight at her. The Canopus opn id fire and the other Brifi.li warships rushed to her assistance. The Scharnborst. Gneisenau ami Leipzig formed in battle line. Th'1 Nurnberg and Dresden. however, 'dropped bark from the limn; line i The British warships concentrated their fire on the Scharnhorsl the flagship flag-ship When it became evident that (she was doomed here crew assembled assem-bled on the forward deck. The! Scharnhorsl n-fu.-ed to surrender and ; after an hour's fighting plunged be neath the waves The ere preserved its formation as the .hlp went down ond cheered as the waters closed about them The cinsgow engaged the Leipzig and sank her The tineisenau wen-down wen-down eight miles from Port Sianie The N'urnberg attempted to escape j but. after a pursuii ol" two hours, wa-sunk. wa-sunk. The Carnarvon pursued the Dresden but was not Bwlft enough to overhaul her, and the German wai ship escaped After the battle ihe British picked up 104 Cermans, including a few officers. offi-cers. Of these survivors 100 were from the crews of the German colliers col-liers An opportunity to surrender was offered the colliers but it was refused and they were sunk The rruiser Cornwall was damaged slightlv below the v. ater line. None ,of the other Briti-h warships was damaged dam-aged On December 10 funeral services v ere held for the eight British sail ors killed, in the presence of the commanders com-manders and c rews of the squadron oo |