r battle, was unable to
keep on her trail. The fast _Eitel Friedrich_, which as a merchant ship
converted into a man-o'-warsman had greater speed than any of the ships
on either side, was able to get away also. These two German ships now
took up their parts as raiders of allied commerce, and were not
accounted for till months later. There was now on the high seas no
German squadron.

CHAPTER XXXVII

SEA FIGHTS OF THE OCEAN PATROL

There were some minor naval operations in the waters of Europe which
have been neglected while larger actions elsewhere were recorded. During
the month of September, 1914, the British admiralty established a
blockade of the mouth of the River Elbe with submarines, and the German
boats of the same type were showing their worth also. On August 28,1914,
the day after the raid on Libau by the German cruiser _Augsburg_, the
date of the battle of the Bight of Helgoland, the two Russian protected
cruisers _Pallada_ and _Bayan_, while patrolling the Russian coast in
the Baltic Sea, were attacked by German submarines. Surrounded by these
small craft, which made poor targets, the two Russian ships sought to
escape by putting on full speed, but the former was hit by a torpedo and
sank. The other got away.

All of the Allies, with the exception of France, had by the beginning of
September, 1914, suffered losses in their navies. The navy of the
republic was engaged in assisting a British fleet in maintaining
supremacy in the Mediterranean, and kept the Austrian fleet bottled up
in the Adriatic Sea. French warships bombarded Cattaro on September 10,
1914, to assist the military operations of the Montenegrin Government.
These ships then proceeded to the island of Lissa and there destroyed
the wireless station maintained by Austria. The Austrian navy made no
appearance while the allied fleets scoured the lower coast of Dalmatia,
bringing down lighthouses, destroying wireless stations, and bombarding
the islands of Pelagosa and Lesina. On the 19th of September, 1914,
they returned to Lissa and landed a force which took possession of it,
thus establishing a new naval base against the Central Powers' navies.

Duels between pairs of ships took place in various seas. The career of
the raider _Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse_, a fast converted liner, was
ended by the British ship _Highflyer_, a cruiser, near the Cape Verde
Islands, on August 27, 1914, after the former had sunk the merchantman
_Hyades_ and h