Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-12-19
Admiralty at London Reports
German Squadron Is De-
Stroyed.
FOUR WARSHIPS SUNK
Admiral Won Spec Thought to Have
Perished--Cerman Advance in Po-
land is Said to Have Been
Checked-kalser's Indis-
position Yielding to
Treatment.


the admiralty has received a cable
dispatch from Vice-Admiral Sturdee
of the British squadron stating that
in the battle off the Falkland islands
in which the German cruisers Scharn-
horst, Gneisenau and Leipzig were
sunk the British casualties totaled
seven men killed and four wounded.
No officers, the dispatch says, were
either killed or wounded.
Germans concede Losses.
Berlin, Dec. II (via London) A
German semiofficial statement was
given out today regarding the naval
battle off the Falkland islands, De-
cember 8, when the German cruiser
squadron commanded by Admiral
Count Won Spec was defeated by a
British squadron under Vice-AdmiraI
Sir Frederick Devotion Sturdee.
The loss of the cruisers Scharn-
horst, Gneisenau ard Leipzig is con-
ceded by the Germans and little hope
was held out that the cruisers Ores
den and Nuremberg could long evade
capture.
Report Dresden Destroyed.
Buenos Aires, Dec. 1.-THE cruiser
Dresden, the last of the German
squadron, is reported to have been
destroyed
Would Mine Gibraltar Straits.
Madrid. Dec. 1.-THE intelligence
department of the British admiralty,
according to information received,
has frustrated a plot of a number of
Germans to SOW mines in the Straits
of Gibraltar. They had acquired the
controlling interest In a group of
three trawlers and had arranged to
load them with mines, which they
were to drop into the sea in the
course of the first warship the mio'
meet.
Nuremberg Also Destroyed.
London, Dec 1.-THE German cruz
ser Nuremberg, which withdrew from
the battle off the Falkland Islands and
attempted to escape in company with
the cruiser Dresden while the British
warships under Vice-Admiral Sir Fred
erick Dovetop Sturdee were sinking
the cruisers Scharnhorst. Gneisenau
and Leipzig, was hunted across the
water by units of the British feet and
sunk the same day.
Big Cruisers Under Sturdee.
The British battle cruisers Lion and
Indefatigable, reported to be part OF
Vice-Admiral Frederick Sturdee's
squadron. displace 26,350 tons and 49,
$50 tons, respectively.
The two largest cruisers of the Ger
man squadron sunk by the British
we're the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau,
both of 1880 tons displacement.
Report of the Battle.
London, Dec. 10.-A British squad
ron under command of Vioe-Admiral
Sir Frederick Sturdee, chief of the
war staff, engaged a German squad
ron under Admiral Count Won Spec off
the Falkland islands, in the South At
lantic, and won a victory which is be-
ing acclaimed through England.
The armored cruisers Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau and the protected cruz
ser Leipzig, three of the German war
ships which had been menacing Brit
ish shipping. and part of the squadron
which sank the British cruisers Good
Hope and Monmouth in the Pacific on
November |, were destroyed
The cruisers Dresden and Nuern-
berg, the two other vessels which COM
posed the German squadron, made OFF
during the fight.
Admiral Believed Lost.
The British 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 flag
ship of the German admiral, being
saved. and 1t is thus presumed that
Count Won Spec, his officers and men,
went down fighting.
The British casualties were seven
killed and four injured.