The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-17
BRITISH DESTROY
GERMAN VESSELS
Warships and Merchantmen Are
Sunk in Conflict in the South
Atlantic.
OTHER LOSSES REPORTED
Transport With Fifteen Hundred Ma
rines Is Said to Have Been Sunk by
Japanese-kalser Declared Recover
ing From IndIsposition-German Ad-
vance in Poland Checked.

London, Dec. 12-The kaiser has
suffered further losses at sea.
The sinking of the German con-
verted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
with 1900 marines aboard, by a Japa-
nese warship in South American wa
ters is reported from Valparaiso.
Chile.
The German armored cruiser Fried
rich Karl has been sunk in the Baltic
by mine. according to an official
statement of the French ministry of
marine ut Paris today. The sinking
of the Friedrich Karl is said to have
occurred two weeks ago and most of
the crew of 557 officers and men are
said to have drowned.
The completion of the raid by an al
lied feet on the German squadron off
the Falkland islands in the south At
lantic a few days ago is reported in a
dispatch from Montevideo. Uruguay,
stating that the cruiser Dresden had
taken refuge in the Argentine port of
Santa Cruz in badly battered condi-
ton. 1t is believed the Dresden will
be iDterned there until after the war.
Nuremberg Fails to Escape.
London. Dec. 1.-THE German cruis-
er Nuremberg which withdrew from
the battle off the Falkland islands and
attempted to make its escape with the
cruiser Dresden while the British war
ships under Vice Admiral Sir Freder-
lex Doveton Sturdee were destroying
the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau
and Leipzig. was hunted across the
water by units of the British fleet and
sunk the same day.
The main action lasted five hours
The Scharnhorst sank after three
hours and the Gneisenau two hours
later.
No loss of any British vessel is re-
ported.
British Squadron Heavy.
London. Dec. IA dispatch from
Buenos Aires conveys the information
that the British squadron includes
nine big warships, notably the battle
cruisers Lion and Indefatigable. The
admiralty declines to verify or deny
that these great ships are in foreign
waters.
German Cruisers Sunk.
London, Dec. 1O.-Information re-
ceived in London indicates that the
destruction of the German fleet in the
South Atlantic, with the sinking of
three cruisers, was preceded by the
sinking of three German merchant YES.
sells.
This information comes from Buenos
Aires. The message said a division of
warships aggregating five ironclads
and one transport. on the morning of
December sank one OF the German
vessels in the roadstead of Picton is
land. Two other steamers were sent
to the bottom the same evening out
side the harbor of Plantation, near
Cape Sample.
Reports on Naval Battle.
The fate of the merchantmen is not
mentioned in the statement given out
by the British admiralty. which said
that the German cruisers Scharnhorst,
Gneisenau and Leipzig were sunk in
a battle with the British fleet under
Vic" Admiral Sir Frederick Surdee
of the Falkland islands in the South
Atlantic
Admiral Won Spec is Lost?
The official statement makes refer
ence to some survivors rescued from
the Gneisenau and the Leipzig. but no
mention is made of any of the crew of
the Scharnhorst which was the Gag
ship OF the German admiral, being
saved. and it is thus presumed that
Count Won Spec. his officers and men
went down fighting.
As the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
each carried complement of 765 men.
the Leipzig 2S6. the Nuremberg 800. and
the Dresden 26l, the total German loss
is estimated at not far from 1000
men
The British casualties were seven
men killed and four wounded.