Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-07
GOOD HOPE SUNK
IN CHILE BATTLE,
LONDON ADMITS
Admiralty Announces Anmored
Cruiser Foundered-Fear Ad-
miraI Cradock Is Lost.

LONDON. Nov. doubt no
longer exists concerning the disas-
trous defeat of the British fleet by
the Germans off the coast of Chile
last Sunday. as the British admiral
ty issued a statement acknowledging
that the British cruiser Good Hope,
with Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher
Cradock and 900 men on board was
sunk, while it is believed that the
cruiser Monmouth, which the Ger
mans reported sunk, was run ashore.
The admiralty issued last night
this statement:
HOn Sunday last the cruisers Good
Hope, Monmouth and Glasgow en-
gagged the German warships Scharn-
horst, Gneiseneau, Leipzig and Dres-
den. The action lasted one hour, be-
ginning after dusk.
EARLY in the action the Good Hope
and Monmouth took fire. but fought
on until a serious explosion occurred
the Good Hope, which foun-
dered.
1.-The Monmouth hauled off. making
water badly. and is now believed to
be ashore. Neither the battleship
Campus nor the armed merchant
man Otranto was engaged in the
battle.
1.-The absence of the Can. pus from
the engagement, which appears to
have been CALAMITY contested, left
enemy's preponderance of force con-
siderable"
The announcement continues:
Reports received by the foreign Of
fee from Valparaiso state that bel
lgerent warship is ashore on the
Chilean coast, and It is possible that
this may prove to be the Monmouth.
Energetic measures are being taken
on this assumption to rescue the sur
vivors."
LIMA, Peru, Nov. IA German
firm here has received a telegram
confirming the report of the sinking
of the British cruisers Monmouth and
Good Hope in a battle with the Ger
man fleet under Admiral Won Spec
off the coast Of Chile.
There has been no news received
here since Of the German TT British
Warships.
The British admiralty's announce
ment of the loss of the Good Hope Is
the first official information given out
from British sources of the naval bat
tie off Coroner, which had been told OF
from German sources In Valparaiso,
Chile, last Tuesday.
According TO the German version
Of the battle, as given by Admiral
Graf Won Spec, commander OF the
German fleet in Pacific waters, the
German squadron, comprising the ar
mored cruisers Scharnhorst and
Gneiseneau, and the light cruisers
Leipsic, Dresden and Nurnberg. sighted
the British armored cruisers Good
Hope and Monmouth, the light cruiser
Glasgow and the transport Otranto
between and o'clock last Sunday
evening In a heavy rain and rough
weather off Coronel.
An engagement followed at once. In
which, Admiral Won Spec reported, the
Monmouth was sunk and the Good
Hope took fire after an explosion.
The German admiral said the fate of
the Good Hope was unknown, owing
to the darkness. He said the Glas-
cow and the Otranto also sustained
damage, but the darkness prevented
the Germans from learning the extent
of IL.
1t was unoff1cially reported from
Valparaiso that the Glasgow's speed
had enabled her TO escape. The
berg arrived in Valparaiso at noon on
arrived in Valparaiso at noon on
and took on coal The Leip- |
sic and Dresden have not been re-
ported since the battle.