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The ' Glasgow' engaged and impeded the Leipzig' till the

'slower county cruisers came up. The ' Cornwall's' 6 in. guns

"simply raked the' Leipzig' fore and aft." When the ' Leip- zig 'was on fire herfiag was still flying, and the' Glasgow ' thought she was preparing to fire a torpedo. Moreover, several explo- sions were believed to be guns firing. The Cornwall' accord- ingly received orders to sink her. It was afterwards learnt, however, that two hundred of the 'Leipzig's ' crew had fallen in waiting to be saved. "If we had any indication," says the writer, "that they had surrendered we could have saved a large part of the crew." The 'Kent,' which sank the Niirnberg,' burnt her boats and the wood of her decks as she ran short of coal.