. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. 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 bef

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. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. 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, killing women and children for thepleasure of it. Before the British fleet could cometo the defense, the Germans would speed back toport, as they employed their fastest ships for thispurpose. Bluecher Sunk by British. On one occasion the enemy failed disastrouslyto get away in time. Sallying forth to bombard theEnglish coast, the Germans met a British battle.

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