The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-16

Displayed-No Casualties on British
Vessels.
LONDON, March 16,-The British ad-
miralty announced last night that the
German cruiser Dresden had been sunk
The following statement was made =
ON March II at 9 a. m, II. NJ. :.
Glasgow, Capt John Lane, r. y. II. NJ.
auxiliary cruiser Drama, Capt John II
>egrave. r.. y, and II. NJ. s. Kent. Capt.
John d. Allen, {. b. II. n, caught the
Dresden near Juan Fernandez island.
An action ensued and after fivc-mn-
utes' 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 ion some time
hcr magazine exploded and She sank
The crew We're saved, IL badly wound
ed. The Germans are being landed at
/ Valparaiso. There were no British cas-
W,ltleS and no damage TO the ships
The Dresden was a member of the Ger
man squadron which Was defeated by the
/ British squadron off the Falkland islands
| in December. She was the only one OF
I,thc tive German warships to escape She
/ was sand To have fled to the westward. but
}
/ her whereabouts since that time She was
reported unofticiallv to have been seen in
/ the straits of Magellan, and later to be IN
hiding IN one OF the bays along the CHILEAN
/ coast
The Dresden was sister, ship OF the
famous Emden, which was sunk of Cocos
island in the Indian ocean by the Aus
traian cruiser Sydney after an adventul-
OTIS career. The sinking OF the Dresden
leaves at large ON the high seas, so far as
Is known, only the cruiser Karlsruhe, last
reported as operating IN the West Indies
and the auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz vii
helm, which il still raiding commerce in
the South Atlantic.
The Dresden visited New York at tn,
time of the Hudson-Fulton exposition. Al
the outbreak OF the war the Dresden WA,
assigned to the Nest Indian station, and
iu>t prior to the beginning Of hostihties
she took Nictoriano Huerta. who had re-
signed as provisional president OF Mexico
from Puerto Mexico to Jamaica. I.itth
was heard OF her until the battle off the
Falkland islands Late in August sh,
sunk the British steamer Hyades of tn,
coast OF Brazil
The Dresden. 4 vessel of $500 tons, wa
10 match for the battle cruisers in tn,
fleet of Nice-Admiral Sir Frederick Stm
dee III the battle off the Falkland island,
and after the destruction OF the Schan
horst, Gnciscnau. Leipzig and Number
r she steamed away and escaped her pun
suers in the darkness. Since that tim
both British and Japanese warships hav
E searched persistently the waters of tn
: south Pacific and south Atlantic. but 10
more than three months the German cruu
5 or Guided pursuit.
e The Dresdens armament was compare
lively light She carried 10 41-inc
, guns, eight fve-pounders. no machir
/ guns and two torpedo tubes. She was -
feet long, Her complement was 321 meI
, Juan Fernandez island, near which II
- Dresden was finally run down, Is Chilia
dependency in the Pacific ocean about ~
', miles off the mainland. The CHILEAN go
~, eminent protested to Germany in Decor
her against alleged violations of neutra
! ity 10y German warships I'M CHILEAN water
4 and three destroyeTs were sent by Chill
4 the Juan Fernandez islands. The soiitm
4 residence ON Juan Fernando island il
4 -four years of a Scotchman named AIcXa
der Selkirk is supposed to have form,
1 the basis of Defoe's tale, Robinson CIR
I soc.