an ships, and outnumbered by
them, her appearance meant her destruction. The _Glasgow_, later joined
by the _Canopus_, arrived in battered condition at the Falkland Islands.
The _Monmouth_, after the main action was over, was found and finished
by the German squadron and went down. Seventy shots were fired at her
when she lay sinking, on fire and helpless, and unable to fire her guns.
Germany had evened the score in the second battle between fleets.

The _Dresden_ after the Falkland action took refuge in Fiordes of Terra
del Fuego and after being there for a couple of months proceeded to the
head of the Island of Juan Fernandez where she was found by the
_Glasgow_, _Kent_ and auxiliary cruiser _Orama_ and was destroyed.

Most remarkable had been the career of the German third-class cruiser
_Nuernberg_, which had joined the other German ships that went to make up
the German squadron which fought in this battle off Coronel. This
vessel, on the day after Germany and England went to war, was lying near
Yap, an island in the Pacific, that had been, until captured by the
Japanese, the wireless station of most importance to the Germans in the
Pacific Ocean. She immediately, after being apprised that she was part
of a navy engaged in a war, set sail and was not reported again until
the 7th of September, when she appeared at Fanning Island, a cable
station maintained by Britain, and from which cables run to Vancouver to
the east and Australia to the west. Here she hid her identity by
entering the harbor flying the tricolor of France and appearing as
though she was making a friendly visit. Officials on the island, happy
to think they would have such a visitor, saw two cutters leave the
warship.

Great was the surprise of those watching events from the shore when they
saw the French flag lowered from the masthead of the visitor and in its
place the German naval ensign run up. The cutters were just about
reaching knee-deep water at the shore when this surprise came, and it
was augmented when, with the protection of the guns of the vessel, the
men in these cutters showed themselves to be a hostile landing party.

Her presence was not reported to the rest of the world for the good
reason that she cut all cables leading from the island. All the British
men there were put under guard, and after damaging all cable instruments
she could find, the _Nuernberg_, accompanied by a collier that had come
with her, again took to the high seas