Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-12
Germans Concede That the Dresden Could Not Escape
 British Pursuers.
DID LAPS HAVE HAND?
Report From BuenOs Aires States That Jap Squadron Helped Destroy ,on Specs Fleet BritonS Den, Los
 ing Three Ships.

Sturdec, reporting that in the action eff the Falkland islands no British officers were either killed or wounded. and the total of the casualties was only seven men killed and four mon wounded.
 The press bureau is also in receipt of a telegram of congratulation from Vice Admiral Hayosho on behalf or the Imperial Japanese navy for the splendid victory attained off the Falk- land islands"
 London Dec 11.-Berlin is ready 10 concede the loss of the Dresden. the sole remaining unit of the German squadron destroyed by Vice Admiral Frederick Sturdee in the South At lantic last Tuesday.
 The imperial press bureau. from which emanatcs all official information given for publication. in statement issued apparently before the destruc- tion of the Nurnburg became known here says, after recording the sinking of the Scharnhorst, Gncisenau and Leipzig and the escape of the Nurn- burg and Dresden in the main en- gagement:
 ''In view of tho superiority of the enemy's fleet, which consists partic- ularly of big. fast, well-armed yes sels. there seems little chance thai our two cruisers can long evade pur- suit. We must therefore also reckon with the loss of both these ships"
 London is also confident that the
 Dresden has been accounted for. but the official announcement is awaltec
 with great impatience, as is also the announcement by the British admir- alty of the composition of the British fleet which won such signal VIC tory.
 Admiral Sturdee's latest command
 was the second cruiser squadron at tached to the home fleet. This includ- ed the cruisers Shannon, Achilles Cochrane and Natal, with number ol light cruisers, torpedo flotilla, col Hers and transports.
 British Lost Seven Men.
 Reference to the press bureau of the admiralty of the report repeated here from Buenos Aires that the British
 fleet lost three ships in the engage ment with Admiral von Specs squad
 ron caused a reiteration or the oHlcla
 statement quoting Admiral Sturdee te the effect that none of the brltlsi ships had been lost. The press bureau
 added. however, that revised reports of the casualties on the British ship'
 during the engagement showed sever men had been killed and four others
 wounded. No casualties were reported
 among the officers.
 The Buenos Aires dispatch quote' private German sources as admitting
 that the German losses will reaci 5000. ., According to the same source, th Dresden was sunk 8 hours after tn' sinking of the Nurnburg. There IS n'
 official confirmation of this. nor o !, the statement that Japanese squad : ron acted with the British fleet, trap hing the Germans between the tw' souadrons and forcing them to scat D ter. ! Going After Karlsrhue. Admiral Sturdee's fleet is looke' now to account for the German raicc Karlsrhue. still at large and fas
 b,,ilding for itself reputation secon'
 only to that of the Emden. Witn !n |, Dresden disposed of, 1t is thought Ad ,, miral Sturdee will then devote ms en ergies to sweeping the South Atlanti in searcch of the raider Karlsruhe. i, The Kron Prinz Wilhelm, Germal converted cruiser, also holding a roy i. ing commission, is reported to be Il inc South Atlantic waters, and on tn
 Pacific side the Prinz Eitel Frederic still is at large. :. Japanese cruisers even now are Il :, pursuit of the Eitel off the coast Chile. according to dispatches fror < Tokyo. > England confidently believes Admir- al Sturdee will have cleared the sea of these commerce raiders by the frs
 of the year.