The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-11-11
SINK BRITISH SHIPS
GEDNAN FLEET (Ff GILLIAN
j COAST Wins BATTLE
FOUR Ships DAMAGED
Two British Cruisers Destroyed and
Two Others Damaged - British
Ships Escaping Are Said to be Bot
tied Up-German Attacking Squad
ron Seems to be UnhErt.

Admiral Graf Won Snee, commander
OF the German feet in Pacific waters.
arrived at Valparaiso, Chile, Tuesday
morning and made the following re-
port concerning a naval engagement
with British warships at Sea OF Cor
onel last Sunday evening:
ION Sunday, November l, between
6 and Z O'clock in the evening, dur
ing a heavy rain and rough weather
of Coronel we sighted the British
men Of war Good Hope, Monmouth
and Glasgow and the armored cruiser
Otranto.
'"An engagement ensued imme-
diately. All the ships opened a brisk
cannonade with all their artillery.
"The Monmouth was sunk and the
Good Hope, after great explosion on
board, took fire. Her subsequent
fate Is unknown owing to darkness
having set in.
.'The Glasgow and the Otranto
were also damaged, but the darkness
prevented our obtaining knowledge
Of the extent Of it.
ttOrr ships, the Scharnhorst and
Nurnberg, were not damaged. The
Gneisenau had six men wounded. The
rest of our ships also were undamag-
ed
The German warships Gneisenau,
Scharnhorst. Numberg, Leipsic and
Dresden attacked the British feet of
Coronel, Chile.
The British cruiser Monmouth was
sunS. The cruiser Good Hope was
very badly damaged and she was on
fire and is supposed to have been lost.
The British cruiser Glasgow took ref
uge in the harbor Of Coronel and is
now bottled up.
The German battleships. Scharn-
horst, Nunberg and Gneisenau an
ehored at midday Tuesday in Valpa-
raiso harbor, uninjured.
The Good Hope, Monmouth and
Glasgow were under command of
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cra-
dock. They had been searching
South American coasts for several
weeks for the German cruisers which
had been destroying British merchant
vessels.
The Monmouth was $40 feet long
and SIS feet beam and of $500 tons
displacement. She had fourteen s.
!: inch guns, eight 3-inch guns, three g.
FOUNDERS and two 18-inch torpedo
/ tubes. Her complement was SIS
men. The Monmouth was built in
1899.
The Good Hope was the flagship oi
the squadron. She was 500 feet long
II feet beam and displayed 14,10C
tons. She was built thirteen years
ago and represented the British ma
ton at the Jamestown exposition ir
1907. Her armament consisted o1
two s.2-inch guns, sixteen 6-inck
guns, fourteen S-inch guns, three 3.
Founders and two 1S-inch torpedo
tubes. She had.a complement Of 500
The Glasgow was built in 1909
She was A30 feet long, II feet bean
and displaced 1870 tons. She haG
Accomplishment Of 376 men. Her anna
ment consisted Of two 6-iach gun:
and ten 4-inch guns. She was equip
ped with two 1S-inch torpedo tubes
A dispatch from Santiago says al
hands are reported to have perishec
when the British cruiser Monmouth
took her plunge beneath the sea after
thirty minutes Of fighting with the
Germans OF Coronel.
The British cruiser Glasgow is also
reported to have been badly damaged
In the naval battle OFF Coronel.
The German armored> cruisers
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are sister
ships Of 1850 tons. Both were
built In 1906 and are 440 feet long
on the water line. Each, has a com,
plemeat Of 765 men, carries eight 2.
inch and six 6-inch guns, twenty "a.
Founders, four machine guns and -four
torpedo tubes.
The Scharnhorst and Gneistnap on
September % bombarded and de-
stroyed Papeete, on the French is
land Of Tahiti, in the Society group
They also sank the dismantled French
gunboat Zelee In Papeete harbor.
The Nurnberg is a smaller cruiser
Of $3.50 tons and carries 295 men
She has ten .4.1-inch guns, eight s.
FOUNDERS, four machine guns and two
torpedo tubes. It is believed she is
the vessel which cut the cable con-
Meeting the United States with Aus
tralia in September.
The Dresden and Leipsic are also
small cruisers. The Dresden is OF
$500 tons and the Leipsic of $3.50.
They have compliments Of 321 and
2S6 men, respectively.
ORDERS TROOPS.