busy until she could be joined by her accompanying ships.

[Illustration: Plan--Vice Admiral Sir Doveton Surdee's Action off the
Falkland Islands. Dec 8, 1914.]

The _Cornwall_ by four o'clock was also near enough to the _Leipzig_ to
open fire on her, and three hours later the German cruiser was having a
time of it with a large fire in her hold. British faith in heavy
armament with long range had again been vindicated. There was something
of human interest in this duel between the _Glasgow_ and the
_Leipzig_. In their previous meeting, off Coronel, the German ship had
had all the better of it and now the men of the British ship were out
for revenge. Consequently the _Glasgow_ signaled to the other British
ships: "Stand off--I can manage this myself!" By eight o'clock in the
evening the _Glasgow_ had her in bad condition, and the _Carnarvon_ came
up to assist in raking her till there was nothing left but a mass of
wreckage on her decks. But her flag was still flying and the British
ships kept circling around her, thinking she still wished to fight, but
not coming near enough to permit the use of her torpedo tubes. Miserable
was the plight of the _Leipzig's_ crew, for the two hundred men who were
still alive were unable to get to her flag on account of the fire aboard
her, and they had to remain inactive while the _Carnarvon_ and _Glasgow_
poured round after round into their ship. Only twelve remained alive at
nine o'clock, when she began to list to port. Slowly more and more of
the under-water part of her hull showed above the sea, and she continued
to heel until her keel was right side up. In this position she sank, a
large bubble marking the spot.

When the _Nuernberg_ left the line of German ships at one o'clock, it was
the British cruiser _Kent_ that went after her, a vessel more heavily
armed than the German ship, yet about a knot slower. But by hard work on
the part of the engineers and stokers of the _Kent_ she was able, by
five o'clock, to get within firing distance of the _Nuernberg_. By a
strange trick of fate the _Kent_ was sister ship to the _Monmouth_ which
had fallen victim to one of the _Nuernberg's_ torpedoes in the battle off
Coronel. Here, too, was a duel with human interest in it. In their
desire for revenge, the men of the _Kent_ made fuel of even her
furniture in order to speed up her engines. Her 6-inch guns now began to
strike the German ship, and soon a fire broke out aboard her. She could
have