Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19
ny HANSON nENNE'rr.

Admiral Manan's contention, based
'h.n his !. or that sea 2ower f Either
in wars where both can play their
part, has received striking confirms
evcnt Of the world war Which the Ger.
man rulers began and which has end
ed I'm their country's ruin.
his war has been larsaiy Invisible TO
the general public. II has been kept
20 for sound strategic reasons. lts
been revealed al the time. But Il VIII
become evident when the whole story
shall be told that the superiority u
tho free nations in seq power was
The. decisive factor in foilng the Hum
nish plot TO rul. and cnsiavc tho world
, me b Britism navy has as mat s,r,,a
sic. When the war began II ~as
nearly two to one, tho most powerful
on on. the seas: And IL ~a h;, ready as on,y
on land. While It's work was admir-.
ABLY supplemented by the fleets OF
years by that or the United states.
upon 1t fell the Whole or one OF the
three great sea tasks Of the war and
The heavier part of the other two.
THREE GREAT TASKS
OF ALLIED NAYIEs
These tasks we're % clearing tho
oceans of the German cruisers: CD tho
paralysis 81 tho German high seas
rent: t3) guarding transport Of troops
and supplies, including the battle with
the German Submarines afId mines.
Within twenty-four hobs after. tho
declaration OF WAY, Admiral Sir John
Aellicoe was at sea with the British
set upon the German outlets TO the
oceans. The story of that more than
htty months csaseleas watch OF I'M
North Sea mus, give. iirst place; hon.
ever, TO the tale OF the hunting o!
Inc Hun from all the outer waters OK
the world
GERMAN SHIPS DESTROYED
BEFORE WAR STARTED
How deliberate was the German war
planning s shown By the Tact tina.
several days before is dec!s .,.;nlom
steamed on, OF kiao Chao TO take up
The wori, OF commerce destroying. De
aching III. Emdcn 10 raid the inui"h
ocean. Spec sen; the Leipzig and NJ
erncerR TO join the Dresden on the
south American coast. where he laterr
met them Win The a;hnFnm nor; so a
dcfenHclcss French and British trading
towns among the south Pacific !siands.
charles Craddock. s,eamins north
/. cruisers in yale Off Coronel, on the
ors Good HOPE and Monmouth and the
light Cruiser GLASGOW. The hattleshi9
Campus. sent ou, 10 re-entoTce S!ao
5 inc action owing :" slow spcen.
dock was ovcrInatchcd and tue Hooa
(" Hope and Mon,nouth ven, down YIN
All hands the battered Glasgow alone
: e,caping south to warn the Can9pus,
The British Adsnral.y eaicniaiied;
correctly ,hat SPEC wo4id DC co a,,s,nnt
rnid on tho Falkland Isla nds. ~ tic
Souir Atlantic. and scnt thIther ~.
mira Sir Ireder,,c1k Sturass w''I e l,1
Cornwall. Bristol aud -Iac-donia
GERMAN. CHIPs DESTROYED
~ HATTLI: or FALi<LA>Ds
rho next morning arter tho British
q sauadron arrived. spec stGa nieG ,nsp
y .sicnt The action opened just before
~ r. NJ on December 5, 1914. 49, t;io
? III. Scharnhorst sa1k. and soon are.
,he ,'nc'aen"u 70 D. jo.htS ~ i'S
The Leipzig AZ SIS. Unlike the Huns a.
,,orone!, the British seamen AID tms s.r
bcst 10 rescue their beaten foes though
few survived those icy waters
: The Dresden escaped for the tiI;'-
and he'd back into the Pacific, TO b'
y gov at Juan Fernandez the next March
:. and to pull down her coior' ai'er an
action OF five minutes.
> LNDi:N DESTROYED BY
AUSTRALIAN CRUISER
.h Tho Emden had met her fate month
Ss e;3re, ine "n' D nt Of merchsn,
ahirs. On November 10. 1914. the AUS
ITALIAN cruiser sydney. when about
|ehft. miles east OF the C"cos- keciinE
Islands in The Indian Ocean. picked
Mn wireless message from the Cocos
station. strange wafSh'P OH en-
france"
/ sighted coming out from the dcsiruc-
! ton OF the wireless station. Two hours
more and the Emuen was a flaming
wreck OH the North Keeling reefs
Within the first month OF the war,
on Angus. so. 1915. the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse had been sunk By the
~Tishnyer off the Cape Verde Islands.
Two weeks later, on September u. ,the
: Csrinania, an armed merchantman. had
. scttIcd the Cap Trafalgar in the South
& Atlantic. and the Sprcewald was cap
Jared by the Berwick in the North At
i.nt;c.--
4 The Prinz Eitel Friedrich was hunt
ed to refuge in an American port on
aprl s. 1918. The Gcic- had internei
az Honolulu carly in the war. The
fate remains one of the mysteries OF
the seas. The KoeniSsberg ran for
;shcltcr into an african river forest. and
sperished there OH July II, 1918.
> IIt5S FLAG SWEPT FROM OCEANS
"a on FIRST YEAR or WAR
4ISccpt Tor one or TRIO raiders which
slipped through the blockade disguised
-! iscuiral merchantmen. that was tic
end OF tho German flag on the oceans.
All OF the great German mercantile
MSS locked W in home or neutral har-
bors The ships in American and most
H,utr9. ports We're later seized In COM
pcnsation for submarine sinkings
~ the end of live months the Cru Sc :
var was practically at an end. Within
year no German flag flew outside the
FiaItic save for occasional excursions
into the North Sea, or when shown
briefly by q skulk!nG submarine
The naval wars first and continuing
problem was tho German battle fleet
10 heat IL IL 1t came out from ia citadel
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