More Details on Naval Buttle Bucnor Aires, Dec. 24.
The papers here today published the story of the running battle between the Admiral Graf Spec and three British cruisers off Montevideo fon December 13 as given by an 'ernieer on board the German warship.
"The British ships fought cleverly andi our situation became a desperate "he said. "We were surrounded.
commander, Captain Langsdorf, received slight injuries to the arm and head and fainted for about 25) minutes. After feeling an impact under our waterline we made for the coast. We had to sound the waters very often as we did not know the coast very. well. We entered Montevideo firmly convinced that we had seriously damaged two enemy Fokker, 7 lane constructor and inventor, died '2. New York hospital this morning.
the age of 49 years. Several blood transfusions proved in vain, and a fatal end to his ailment. was feared already yesterday, when his physicians "declared' he" was near! Seath.
Friends of the deceased, who was 'a widower the past ten years' and without children, declared today that hhis body' will be'taken to the Nether lands for burial. The date was not fixed today. however.
"The late Herr Fokker was born Apri 6, 1800, in Kediri, Java, of Dutch parents. He received his education Haarlem, the Netherlands, and then went {0 pre-War Germany {0 pursue the aviation career which he had found stunted in his homeland. In the Kaiser's Reich, he soon gained renown for his original Jconstruction and successes in the early pioneer years of aviation.
His first public acclaim came in 1912, when he participated with great success in the St. Petersburg military aircraft exhibition. The German Government then interested itself in the development of his concern. placing orders for his machines and making, three-year contract for the (raining. of pilots.
During the Great War shortly after, the Fokker Flugzeug Werke Schwerin, Mecklenburg, became among the most important in all Europe.
err Fokker at that time made several important inventions, parti ularly in regard to aeroplane arm= ament. It was he who first invented the device which permitted the firing of a machinegun through the field a tractor propeller. Upon conclusion of the War in 1918, he liquidated his aviation plant in Germany and tumed to his homeland, - where founded the RIV. Nederlandsche Vilegtuizenfabrick, of which he still was it director at his death—Havas
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