Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-11-14
cradock's Fleet Is AnnihiIated.

Cradocks Fleet Is Annihiated.
London--A Marconi wireless dis
patch from Berlin says:
Admiral Cradocks fleet has been
in the Pacific by the Ger
mans. Our losses were a few wound
ed and insignificant damage.
All the officers and men of the
cruiser Karlsruhe have been deco
rated with the iron cross"
Commander Reports Battle.
Valparaiso - Admiral Graf Won
Snee. commander of the German fleet
in Pacific waters. arrived at Valpa-
raise Tuesday and made the follow
ing report concerning a naval engage
ment with British warships at sea
off Coronel last Sunday evening:
"On Sunday, Nov. /, between and
Z o'clock in the evening, during a
heavy rain and rough weather off
Coronel, we sighted the British men
of war Good Hope, Monmouth and
Glasgow and the armored cruiser
Otranto.
AN engagement ensued Immediate
ly. All the ships opened a brisk can
nonade with all their artillery.
1.-The Monmouth was sunk and the
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 pre-
vented our obtaining knowledge OF
the extent of it.
"Our ships, the Scharnhorst and
Nuremberg, were not damaged. The
Gneisenau had six men wounded.
The rest of our ships also were I'M
damaged" N
The British cruiser Glasgow took
refuge in the harbor OF Coronel and
is now bottled up.
The Scharnhorst, Nuremberg and
Gneissenau anchored at midday Tues
day in Valparaiso harbor. $780,.
Using Tau Fortress surrenders.
Tokio.-It is officially announced
that the German fortress of Using Tau
has surrendered to the Japanese and
British. forces. 1t is officially an
nounced that the first step in bringing
about the surrender of the fortress oc-
CURED at midnight Friday, when the
infantry charged and occupied the
middle fort of the line of defense.
In this operation they took 200 prison
ers.
The fall of Using Tau ends the most
picturesque of the minor phases of the
great world war now raging. On two
continents and in many of the islands
of the seas where colonies of the war
ring nations were planted, combats OF
more or less interest have taken place,
garrisons have been captured and
towns occupied peacefully, but in the
little German concession on the south
side of the Chanting Peninsula OF
China there has been going on since
late in August reduced scale of wal
that from all accounts has duplicated
nearly all the features of those bat
ties in Europe that have resulted II
the capture of fortified positions.
The capture of Using Tau loses t.
Germany her last foot of possession:
on the Asiatic mainland, as well as hel
strategic position outside of the Ger
man empire in Europe.
Greece, it is said, has satisfied a de
sire she had at the close of the lat'
Balkan war by the taking of Epirus
The British admiralty reports tn
Ifoundering Of the cruiser Good Hop
and expresses the fear the cruise
Monmouth has been forced ashore a
a result of the battle last Sunday be
tween British and German warship
off the coast of Chile.
On the Aisne the French say the,
have retaken the town of Soupir, nea
Vailly. and that to the east of. Verdul
they have captured some trenches
The Germans, on the other hand, as
sert that they have won importan
positions near st. Mihiel, and in 8
doing inflicted heavy losses on tn
French.
The Japanese and British forces er
compassed the downfall of the strong
hold after it's garrison of 1000 ha
, held out for nearly three month:
With its loss Germany is evicted 'fror
Asia.
Berlin reports that the Persian nil
listers in Petrograd had demande
that Russia recall the Russian force
now in North Persia.
A Belgian official report says. tina
allied troops accommodating as far a
Lombaertzyde on the User front nea
Schoorbakke, found no Germans, bu
, that IAN almost unbroken column
. the enemy of all arms, extending fror
r Leke to Thorout has marched in
: easterly direction"
: The British mine sweeper Mary ha
E been sunk in the North Sea by
mine.