Upon the evening of December 8th, after the _Glasgow_ and _Cornwall_ had disposed of the _Leipzig_, there were one English and two German cruisers unaccounted for. The _Kent_ had last been seen chasing the _Nürnberg_ towards the south-east, while the _Dresden_ was disappearing over the curve of the horizon to the south. Upon the following morning no news had come in from the _Kent_, and some anxiety was felt; it was necessary to find her before proceeding with the pursuit of the _Dresden_, and much valuable time was lost. It happened that during her fight with the _Nürnberg_, which she sank in a most business-like fashion, the _Kent’s_ aerials were shot away and she lost wireless contact with Sturdee’s squadron. The _Glasgow_ was ordered off to search for her, but fortunately the _Kent_ turned up on the morning of the 10th deservedly triumphant. She had performed the great feat of catching and sinking a vessel which on paper was much faster than herself, and she had done it though short of coal and at the sacrifice of everything wooden on board, including the wardroom furniture. She was compelled with the _Glasgow_ and _Cornwall_ to return to Port Stanley for coal, and this delay was of the utmost service to the fugitive _Dresden_. Though the movements of that cruiser, in the interval, were not learned until much later, it will be convenient if I give them now, so that the situation may be made clear. The _Dresden_ had owed her escape to her speed and to the occupation of the _Glasgow_—the only cruiser upon our side which could catch her—with the _Leipzig_. She got clear away, rounded the Horn on the 9th, and on December 10th entered the Cockburn Channel on the west coast of Tierra del Fuego. At Stoll Bay she passed the night, and her coal-bunkers being empty sent men ashore to cut enough wood to enable her to struggle up to Punta Arenas. She ran a great risk by making for so conspicuous a port, but she had no choice. Coal must be obtained somehow or her number would speedily go up. She was not entitled to get Chilean coal, for she had managed to delude the authorities into supplying her upon five previous occasions during the statutory period of three months. Once in three months a belligerent warship is permitted, under the Hague Rules, to coal at the ports of a neutral country; once she claims this privilege she is cut off from getting more coal from the same country for three months. But the _Dresden_ again managed, as she had already done four times before, to secure supplies illegitimately. She coaled at Punta Arenas, remained there for thirty-one hours—though after twenty-four hours she was liable to internment—and left at 10 p.m. on the 13th. It was this disregard for the Hague Rules which led to the destruction of the _Dresden_ in Chilean territorial waters at Juan Fernandez three months later. We held that she had broken international law deliberately many times, she was no longer entitled to claim its protection. She could not