Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-16
Vessel That Escaped From
Disaster Off Falkland Is
lands Is Chased to Fate Off
Juan Fernandez,
WHITE FLAG DISPLAYED
WHEN SHIP IS BURNING
Crew Is Taken Off, Fifteen
Being Badly Wounded Only
Two TeutOOiC Raiders Are
Now at Large,


London. March Is t5;55 p. m)---
The British admiralty announced to-
night that the German cruiser Dres-
den had been sunk.
The sinking of the Dresden was an
nounced the following statement:
"On the 14th of March, at a. m,
II. NJ. $. Glasgow, Captain John Luce.
II. ~, II. NJ. auxiliary cruiser Orma.
Captain John r. Seagrave, r. ~, and
II. NJ. $. Kent, Captain John d. Al
len, G. y. r. n, caught the Dresden
near Juan Fernandez island.
An action ensued and after five
minutes fighting the Dresden hauled
down her colors and displayed the
white flag. She was much damaged
and set on fire, and after she had
been burning for some time, her mag
azine exploded and she sank.
THE crew was saved, fifteen bad
ly wounded. Germans are being land
ed at Valparaiso.
There We're no British casualties
ana no damage to the ships"
The sinking of the Dresden leaves
at large on the high seas, so far as is
known, only two German vessels-the
cruiser Karlsruhe last reported as op-
Grating in the West Indies, and the
auxiliary Kronprinz Wilhelm which
Is still raiding commerce in the south
Atlantic.
The Dresden was a member of the
German squadron which was defeated
| by the British off the Falkland is
! lands in December She was the
I only one Of five German waIships e
/ escape. rhe Dresden was said to have
I fled to the westward, but there had
/ been no definite reports as to heI
Whereabouts since that time She was
reported unofficially to have been
seen in the straits of Magellan and
later TO be in hiding in one of the bays
on the Chilean coast.
The Dresden was a sistership Of the
, famous Emden, which was sunk in
the Indian ocean by the Australian
cruiser sydney.
At the outbreak of the war the
Dresden was assigned to the West In
dian station, and just prior to the be
ginning Of hostilities she took Vie
toriano Huerta, who had resigned as
provisional president of Mexico, from
( Puerto Mexico to Pamaica.
Little was heard OF her until the
battle off the Falkland islands, Late
in August she sank the British
steamer Hyades off the coast Of Bra
zil
The Dresden vessel of $500 tons
was no match for the battle cruisers
in the fleet of Vice Admiral Sir Ed
ward Strudee in the battle off the
Falkland islands and after the de-
structon of the Scharnhorst, Gneise-
nau, Leipzig and Nurnberg, she
steamed away and escaped her pur-
suers in the darkness.
Since that time both British aud
japanese warships have searched per-
sstently, but for more than three
months the German cruiser eluded
pursuit,
The DresGen's armament was com
naratively light She carried ten four
inch guns, eight five-pounders -four
machine guns and two torpedo tubes.
She was 1896 feet long. Her compile
ment was 321 men.
Juan Fernandez island, near which
the Dresden was finally run down, IS
a Chilean dependency in the Pacific
ocean about 400 miles off the main-
land. The solitary residence on Juan
Fernandez island for four years Of a
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