The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1914-12-18
RAID ON ENGLAND'S FINEST
CHANNEL HARBOR RESULTS
IN SINKING OF SEW
ERAL BOATS.
CRUISER NUREMBERG is
SUNK BY BRITISH FLEET
German Cruiser Is Destroyed in Rum
ming Battle Off the Falkland
Islands After the Fashion of
the Scharnhorst, Gnei-
senau and Leipsic.

Dover, Eng, Dec. 1.-THE city of
Dover was thrown into excitement by
the announcement that the Germans
in the early morning attempted SUBJ
marine attack upon the harbor works
and the fleet at anchor in the harbor.
The forts were put on the alert early
by the appearance at the harbor en-
trance of an unidentified steamer, be-
lieved to have been the tender of the
submarines.
Half an hour later, it is said. a
single submarine was sighted and one
of the heavy guns in the harbor fired
at her. The observers later sighted
what they believed to be fleet of six
submarines several miles out in the
channel. The forts began firing at
up for half an hour. At the same time
the torpedo boat destroyer put to sea,
where it remained all day.
London, Dec. 11.-Half a dozen Ger
man submarines made an attempt to
enter the admiralty harbor, accord
ing to a Dover dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company, and for
half an hour the batteries kept up
furious fusillade, firing at least 200
shots. 1t is reported that two or three
of the submarines were sunk, but no
confirmation of this can be obtained.
Make Attack in Rainstorm.
The attempt was made under cover |
of early morning darkness and during |
a heavy rainstorm. The first alarm, |
says the dispatch, was given by the |
firing of naval gun, and soon all the |
batteries were in action.
The admiralty, to whom this dis
patch was submitted, said it had not |
received confirmation of the reported |
attack.
Dover Is Opposite Calais.
Dover is opposite the Fnech town
of Calais and is one of the chief |
ports of communication between Eng
land and the continent. The admiralty
harbor, comprising an area of 610
acres, is the finest harbor of refuge in
the channel It's construction was be-
gun in 1898 and completed in 1909 at
a cost of ST., 100000.
The western limit of the old COM
mercial harbor and the admiralty har-
Dor is the admiralty pier. The COM
mercial harbor is bounded on the east
by the Prince of Wales harbor, while
the east arm of the admiralty harbor
is built out from the, shore to the east
of Dover castle. There are numerous
forts guarding the entrance
GERMAN CRUISER DESTROYED
IN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
London, Dec. IL The German
cruiser Nurnberg, which withdrew
rom the battle off the Falkland islands
last Tuesday and attempted to make
her escape in company with the cruiser
Dresden while the British warships I'M
der Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Dove
.on Sturdee we're sinking the cruisers
5charnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig,
was hunted across the water by units
If the British fleet and sunk the same /,
lay.
This information was contained in a
statement of the British official press
nent added that search for the Ores
len was proceeding. I
Report Dresden cornered.
Although the official press bureau ;
avs the British men of war are still
eeking for the last one of Admiral Won
;pee's vessels, unofficial reports re- q
eived in Buenos Aires say the Ores !,
EN- has been cornered in the Straits
+ Magellan, the tortuous waterway =
eading from the Atlantic to the Pacific y
t the southernmost point of South :
Lmerica. Whether these reports are :
rue or not, 1t is believed in admiralty ?
ircles here that the Dresden, even
nough she is a somewhat faster boat
nan any of those sunk in Tuesdays
attic, eventually will be brought to r,
ction. The battle in which the Scharn- S
orst, Gneisenau and Leipzig were sent 81
, the bottom, according to an admir- e.
Ity report, laasted five hours, with F
lteryals The Scharnhorst sank in al
Tree hours and the Gneisenau two cl
ours later. No loss of any British
essel has been reported by the ad- G
iralty. L
Brings Insurance Reduction. W
The destruction of majority of the pi
lips of the German squadron had an So
1mediate effect on insurance rates al
Id the government rate for insurance 1,
cargoes against war risks was re- CT
iced from two guineas to one and of
le-half guineas per cent. 81
One member of Lloyds, who recent
Aliens to Help Red Cross.
New York, Dec. 8.-Work in max
q supplies for the Red Cross is to be be
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