. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. British squadron under command of AdmiralBeattj^ raided the bight of Hehgoland, close to theGerman coast, sinking two cruisers and two destroy-ers. The next battle was disastrous to the Britishsquadron of Admiral Cradock, who was attacked bya much superior force off the coast of Chile, Nov. LCradocks flagship, the Good Hope, and the Mon-mouth were sunk with all hands and the cruiserGlasgow badly damaged, though it escaped to German victory was soon more than matchedin a battle off the Falkland Islands Dec. 8, when thefour

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. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. British squadron under command of AdmiralBeattj^ raided the bight of Hehgoland, close to theGerman coast, sinking two cruisers and two destroy-ers. The next battle was disastrous to the Britishsquadron of Admiral Cradock, who was attacked bya much superior force off the coast of Chile, Nov. LCradocks flagship, the Good Hope, and the Mon-mouth were sunk with all hands and the cruiserGlasgow badly damaged, though it escaped to German victory was soon more than matchedin a battle off the Falkland Islands Dec. 8, when thefour ships of Admiral Van Specs squadron, theScharnhorst, Leipzig, Nuernberg and Gneisenau,were sent to the bottom of the ocean. One Germanship, the Dresden, escaped, but it was found bythe Glasgow and Kent three months later in Chileanwaters and destroyed. The Germans next took to using their warshipsfor raiding defenseless English towns, suddenly ap-pearing before some peaceful outing place or fish-ing village and bombarding the homes of the non-|| combatants,

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