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NAVAL TRIBUTE TO GERMAN BRAVERY,
cruisers reported having sung the Narn berg. So we really got through a very good day's work, only one of thoir small cruisers having escaped, and we foal that we have avenged the Good Hope and Monmouth and paid them back with a little interest. Still, one can't help foal· ing sorry for the poor devils on board; they were very nice fellows, and we have dodo all we can for thom, and I must say The action of the Falklanda is described they put up a most gallant fight consider by an officer of the Inflexible in an accounting the odds against them. Our ships are which is not only extremely interesting practically undamaged, and we should in itself, but has the additional merit have finished the action much sooner if wo of being the first description published of had gone closer to them, but, of course, a modern battle-cruiser in action by one sur object was to sink them with as little serving in such a ship. The letter, which damage to ourselves as possible is dated December 11th, saya
I am just sending you a short descrip tion of the action on the 8th. I suppose you have seen in the papers that is took place near the Falkland Islands.
One of the officers saved was telling me that towards the end of the action he could
not get along their upper deck, as they practically had none left; nearly every
On Tuesday morning we were in harman on the upper deck had been killed, bour, and had started coaling at about all the guns were out of action, and one 6.30 am. At about 8.30 am fire German turret had been blown bodily overboard cruisers were reported approaking the by 19in. lyddite shell. Both their engines harbour by the shore signal station These were broken up, and they had a fire. in turned out to be the Scharnhorst the after part of the ship. They would probably have had many more fires but ship), Greisenau, Nurnberg, Dresden, and
our holls striking the water near the Leipzig, the squadron which sank the Go
Canton which kept Hope and Monmouth off Valparaiso. course we were delighted to see them, we were wanting very badly to settle accounts with them over their last explo
When they sighted us they immediac turned tail and made off as fast as th could, for, of course, we had a conside ably more powerful squadron. Appa ently they had not the faintest suspicio that we were in the vicinity, for they hi expected to take the Falkland Island withont much opposition and coal ther I believe that half their seamon! were landing rig ready to land when they we approaching. As soon as they were ported we all dropped & coaling at onc shoved off the colliers, and made off aft them. As we knew we were faster the taby were we did not hurry very much start with, but slowly closed with the and this gave us time to have dinner con fortably before getting on with the worl
BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT.
About 12.30 the fagship and ourse who are considerably faster than tho re of our squadron, läcreased speed and we on ahead to attack their two big cruiser the Scharnhorstand Greisenau. At p.m. we opened fire on them at a reg of yards, the flagship taking on t Greisenau and ourselves the Scharthurd Their light cruisers immediately spre but we managed to get at least one s Hinto the Leipzig before they made off, she was observed to be dropping rapi astern. We then turned the whole of attention to the big druisers and lufti rest of our squadron to deal *** light cruisers.
We blazed away at the Scharnhorst for slaughter of innocents! Certainly i three hours, and finally she cank at about the good opinion of the peoples ofinout
nations.
The Umied Presa observes: —— Once more the futility of an offensive
4 p.m. It was very hard to tell what damage we had done to her as there was a great deal of smoke and we were, of course, a considerable distance away. We could see that she had three funnels gone attack from, the air has been demonstrated, and both masts shot away, and must have Once more women and children have been been more like a sieve than anything else killed as the result of useless experiments. before she finally went down. We had with aerial weapons. The science of war- very little damage done to us, as we had far has pot mounted to the heavens. ati immens superiority in gunfire. Our Valuable observations can be made from 12in, gun were hitting her pretty hard above, but death and destruction cannot. all the time, but as she had only 8.in. bo rained down except upon the innocent gung her fire was very ineffective all the more than on the guilty. Civilians are Ptice, though I must say remarkably prohibited from making war upon the accurate. When she started to go down enemy, and strict application of the she went very quickly, and unfortunately German military military code in We were unable to stop and pick up any Belgium has demonstrated what fearful of her men as the Geirenas seemed still penalties are imposed on a civil popula- tion that takes up arms against soldiers to have a good deal of kick left in her.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
TO-DAY:
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TO-NIGHT
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We went to the flagship's assistance and started in again at the Greisenuw about 4.45 pile, she appeared to be sinking and bad ceased fire. Her colours had been shot away several times, but she had hoisted from again, and now we thoug she had hauled them down. The only
visible damage done to her was her fore be summarily shot. Probably aerial raitis. fon England encourage during heroian by most funnel shot away, though as we force of example among the German found out afterwards she was badly
tented.
The raid, in so far as it is possible to
knocked about. Apparently she had no troops, and German public opinion too, more colours left, but was still game, for which has pinned great faith to the effec as we were closing she managed to get off tiveness of aircraft, bas influenced the one more solitary gun. We had to staid Present raid. Nevertheless the killing of off again, and gave her a few more rounde, women and children is a hard price to and another of our cruisers which had exact even though it stimulates battlefield come ap let off a few st her. About 5.15 courage, and keeps public opinion. con- she was observed to be sinking, and we
The Evening Sun says:- started to close her. She heeled over very slowly till she got to about 70deg., then she went over with a rush, there was a judge it at present, was as wanton and as large cloud of steam, she cocked her stem insignificant as the recent naval raid- For the eron loss purposeful perhaps. up in the air and disappeared.
I should think about 300 to 400 of her attack on Scarborough may have been crew managed to get away from the ship, undertaken in the tops of drawing out and were left floating about in the water, part of the Grand Fleet and leading it. hanging on to bits of wreckage, ham into mine-fields previously prepared, mocks, and anything they coud lay hand while the air raid could not have been on. Their heads bobbing about in the undertaken for any purpose beyond purs detructiveness. The one thing certain is water looked for all the world like a great that the raid, whether for the purpose of patch of brown seaweed As soon as
mierable failure. possible wo got out what boats we had creating panic or doing damage, was a left to pick them up, and threw lifebuoys and any available bite of wood to them. The flagship and the other cruiser had come up and were doing the same, but EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY'S "ROLIE a lot of them were drowned, as we cores
OF HONOUR.”
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Saturday, 27th Feb,
2 p.n-Hongkong Race Meeting-Off Day, Monday, 1st March -->
9.15 pmHenry Dallas at the Theatre Royal
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Thursday, 4th March
Annual Flower and Vegetable Show of the Hongkong Horticultural Ecclety in the Botanic Gardeng
Friday, 6th March —
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get choppy. It also was awfully cold in
the water, and those we got on board were The first official issue of the Rolk of hall-frozen, and you could see many of Honour" of the University of Edinburgh them in the water letting go of the spars contains the names of nearly 1,700 mem or whatever they were holding on to as bers of the University, about 1,000 of they gradually got numbed. We saw whom hold commissions in the Forces.
Five are in command of battalions, icebergs the next day.
Under the heading Pro Patrio appear the names of 13 officers who have died in. the service of their country, including four surgeons lost in the sinking of cruisers, six doctors in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and three infantry officers
More than half of those who have accepted commissions, are in the Army or Navy medical service.
TRIBUTE TO THE ENEMY, We picked up the commander of the Gneisenau, seven officers, and about 50 men, and between the three ships we managed to save about 180. But a lot of them were drowned, and it was an awful sight to see them floating about in the water shouting out for the boat to come to them and then they would suddenly go down. About 7 pm, we started off to In addition to those whose names are on look for the remainder of their squadron the roll there are almost 60 members, in In the evening one of our light cruisers the various units of the Offers Training reported having sunk the Leinig, and Corps, and 350 in the University Reserve, another ote had sung two of their colliers. making a total in all of over 2600 on Next morning one of our armoured service
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