Word: coronell
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England and France may have their minor difficulties over rewarding service to the commonwealth, but just so long as the reward is in the form of a rosette or coronel, they will be following their own best interests. They will escape the necessity of awarding public utilities jobs to loyal contractors, agencies to loyal Anti-Saloon Leagues, warships to influential trust companies...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...