Identifier: literarydigesthi10hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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went to the bottom, while the Glasgow and Otranto took refuge in a Chilean port. The Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Nurnberg were in the harbor of Valparaiso the next day coaling and provisioning in preparation for steaming away. They were expected to relieve the cruisers Leipzig and Bremen, which had the Glasgow and Otranto bottled up in the port of Talcahuano, eight miles northwest of Conception. Opposed to an overwhelming preponderance of gunfire,both the Good Hope and the Monmouth were quickly in a 24 WARSHIP BATTLES AND RAIDS ON COMMERCE blaze, and although fighting with courage to the last, the two vessels went down with all on board. The Glasgow alone of the three British ships engaged escaped. At the long range at which the action took place, the light armament on both sides must have been all but useless. Weather conditions, moreover, were against a full employment of the lower batteries of the British cruisers. The marksmanship of the German gunners was of the best. From the small losses on
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Cape Horn _- Scale of Miles THE MATTHEWS-NORTHRUP WORKS, BUFFALO, N.V. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS The map shows how the large warships which the British had sent against the German fleet, were in waiting for them, screened by these islands, when the Germans came around into the Atlantic by way of Cape Horn their side it appeared that they could have scarcely felt the effect of the British fire at all. Altho the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had been intended for bigger work than commerce-raiding, they had been a distinct menace to South American trade; but as far as known, neither of these large cruisers had ever attacked a British merchantship. The work of preying on commerce (page 25 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA) was left to smaller ships. The Leipzig in October sank the Bankfields off Peru, while bound from Eten for England with 6,000 tons of sugar, and the oil-tank steamer Elsinore, and early in November sank the Vine Branch off the Chilean coast while outward bound to

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