DETAILS OF SINKING OF KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE.

• LAS PALMAS, Saturday.

Lieutenant Dcane, one of the prisoners from the steamer Galician, in an interview, said the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sighted the cruiser Highflyer at 1.30 on Wednesday. The commander then ordered her prisoners below. An hour afterwards he told them to get aboard the collier Arucas, which was coaling tho Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. The latter's officers said the Highflyer was going to fire, and had given the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse an hour in which to clear. Owing to the officers' delay, the prisoners only boarded the collier in the last minute, and even then some remained on the vessel. The Highflyer was four miles off when she opened fire. A shell passed over the Arucas' deck. There was much delay in cutting the Arucas , hawser, shells falling all the time. It was ten minutes before they got out of range . The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse kept her officers and gun crews, and a few engineers, and the remainder were told to board the Arucas as best they could. There was a frantic struggle to get off tho doomed ship. As the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosses bow was on to the Highflyer, the latter had some difficulty in finding her mark. She consequently manoeuvred round to get a broadside. The \cannonado of both ships lasted for forty minutes. All the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosses shots appeared to fall short. She was herself hit three times, and then caught on fire. :

When she wag silenced the Highflyer ceased firing. *

. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was still afire, and tho Highflyer was standing off when the Arucas got out ofi sight.

It is reported that the captain gare his sword and a letter to his wife tor his secretary, who boarded the Arnca&j He said he intended to blow up th* ship before he sttrrendered. j