Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-14

0 oecounts of the battle off fhe
 ssss ,.a Islands, when Admira
 'A,s ,a. crushed the fleet of Ad:hira
 ? a'es, Spec, were made public today: ..,.
 sn a;stressing incident of the battle
 dls'. ahout two hundred of the
 that of the the Leipzig could have beer
 w V, oh had they been able to sigma
 yea a.it;sb uiS that they would sur
 |" As it was, the signal could
 pdel, soue been given on account ol
 s;arceness aarc of the fight and the
 li cruiser was punished until
 rll,an asoent about a dozen men were ~ne as, first eyewitness says: lne m,so K Kent was the guardship, with
 ln' m and first out of harbor Pam normans s saw the Glasgow and
 e vent u and Admiral Von Spec
 ,a signal to say they would en- .us as Their distance was then twelve g. g The 1nvincible and lnflexl-
 les, %ere not out till an hour after
 ond " the enemy had not the ntest est knowledge they were out of
 North sea. After bit they spot
 ,ho tripod masts and their en-
 .. have never done so fast.
 uMnweyer .eI the Invincible and the flexible had the legs Of them and 0nt 1 o'clock brought the Scharn- USt u| and Gneisenau to action at ex- pma m range-16,O00 yards. The three ht cruisers, Leipzig, Dresden, and 'rnberg, made off in another dlrec- "Tno % Glasgow, the Cornwall and
 Kent were hot-foot after them. county cruisers were too slow, d the Glasgow impeded the ene- s,o litht cruisers by making them m to reply to our fire, thus let the Cornwall catch up. The rnnwall and the Glasgow were after Leipzig, the Kent after the Nurn- te and the Dresden, miles away on
 horizon. About 3 o'clock we ened fire.
 nFor two hours the Glasgow fought Leipzig, alone, twisting and turn her shots falling far too close for 1lasgow's liking. Two shells ent through the foretop, taking one bns hand off and killing another,
 feet below on the uEaer deck. bont five the Cornwall got into nge, and weighed in with her 6 ch, The two simply raked the &ipzig fore and aft. Their upper ck was a shambles.
 fAfter she caught fire and stopped, E Glasgow steamed round and und, out Of torpedo range. As her g was still flying the Glasgow ought she was waiting to put a tpedo into her, and. as there Wer" Veral explosions that looked like us, she did not know whether et Is finished out.
 FHer captain told the Cornwall <: bk her with gun-fire.
 PThe Glasgow afterwards learned appalling news that while she ls circling round the Leipzig 200 the crew left had fallen in waiting ] the Glasgow to come and save em, and that the few shots of the rnwall killed every man except out dozen. If the Glasgow had any dication that they had surrenderec could have saved large part of crew, but the survivors said the e was so bad they could not do |ything. Eventually the Glasgow led to pick up any remaining. The ipzig. was burning furiously, and sht at any moment have blown uN going as near as possible the asgow told the Germans to jump to the sea and swim to the boat bich they did. Unfortunately, at tffe me time the ship gradually heeled Ter and plunged down to the bottom. be Glasgow only picked up eleven 'us.
 They had fired every shot they Id. Some of them think that when e Cornwall opened fire at the end E meant to give them no quarter as Venge for the Good Hope and the onmouth. When they left the Glas- Pw we gave them three hearty eers, for they had fought a gallant Ptlon under considerable odds.
 The Kent caught the Numbers; as rec of the latter's boilers gave out. ply three out of 33O men were pick up, as the Kent, running short of Pai' had burnt her boats, and every (ece Of wood in the ship, even. tear g up decks. The Scharnhorst went Pwn With all hands, firing up to the (s'' put 150 were picked up from Pe Gneisenau.
 'Not man was hurt on the In (nclble, lnfexible and Cornwall. The (ent had five killed and twenty |ounded, the Glasgow one killed and Fven wounded"
 me second eyewitness tells chief or the encounter of the Kent and Ie Nurnberg. After describing the Fslnnlng of the action it runs as fol oa the Kent men remained at ac' |oa stations till 1O:3O, when the or' Caa. I'eas were photographed, and the [as' of Deutschland Deutschland t.er Alles' was atunk in sloe gin F,ea | there was lunch, and after slus group sat on the top of the %Ward (a,s gun turret, calling it the sa fsas' and watching the pursuit, and [sr l2:55 the Scharhorst and Chef usu' At 1:S5 everybody was order 70 action stations again. At 2:2; I.s ss. again fell out. and an officer II. I,pa, upon the bridge (which wal "eu the dress circle) and sat or