Bombardment of Papeete
{'<entity_0>': 'French Polynesia', '<entity_1>': 'Bombardment of Papeete', '<entity_2>': '22 September 1914', '<entity_3>': 'World War I', '<entity_4>': 'Papeete', '<entity_5>': 'Tahiti'}
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The <entity_1> occurred in <entity_0> when German warships attacked on <entity_2>, during <entity_3>. The German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau entered the port of <entity_4> on the island of <entity_5> and sank the French gunboat Zélée and freighter Walküre before bombarding the town's fortifications. Von Spee decided to raid <entity_4> in <entity_5> on his way to rendezvous with the rest of his squadron at Easter Island. The French had no heavy defenses at <entity_4> but had been warned that von Spee's squadron might raid <entity_5> and that a German squadron had been sighted off Samoa. Although <entity_4> was the capital of the <entity_0>, by 1914 it had become a colonial backwater, lacking a wireless station and having a garrison of only 25 colonial infantry and 20 gendarmes. At 07:00 on <entity_2>, the French sighted two unidentified cruisers approaching the harbor of <entity_4>.
['battle']