KAISER'S FLEET CftlPPtED, BRITISH ADMIRALTY SAYS Eighteen of Enemy Lost, Against Fourteen, Is Sub stance of Official Statement EVENING LEDaEBrPHli;AJ)EiI?HlA; MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1910. particularly severe, Of the ships that were destroyed scarcely an officer vu saved, almost all going down at their posts of duty1. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. In an Interview on the results of the battle, con tends that the British strategy was sound, and that Vice Admiral Bealty, who, as neaa of the battlo cruiser squadron, brought on the action by his dash against the Ger maris aa soon as thoy were sighted, really wdn another brilliant success, nKhough nt heavy cost RESCUED BRITISH SAILORS TELL VIVID TALES OP FIGHT HOLD DOMINION OP SEAS I List of English Ships I Presumably in Battle IX w K While official statements regnrd infc tho British ships engaged in the Jutland buttle arc lacking, dis patches giving tho names of some of the vessels which took part form tho basis for tho following nnnrntimntn list: BATTLESHIPS Iron Duke (Jellicoe's flagship). Marlborough (damaged). Emperor of India. Bcnbow. Queen Elizabeth. Mnlayn. Warspito (damaged). Valiant. Barham. , BATTLE CRUISERS Lion (Beatty's flagship). Tiger. Qflccn Mary (sunk). Princess Royal. , Indcfatigablo (sunk). Indomitable. Inflexible. Invinciblo (Hood's flagship sunk). ARMORED CRUISERS Defense (sunk) . Warrior (sunk).. Black Prince (sunk). DESTROYERS (All sunk). Tipperary. Nomad. Turbulent. Fortune. Shark. Ardent. Nestor. Sparrowhawk. German Ships Sunk, According to British Two battleships ("Wcstfalen type). Two battle cruisers (Derfflinger type). W Wiesbaden Oinht cruiser). Elbing (light cruiser), Light cruiser (Rostock type). Frauenlob (light cruiser). Nine destroyers. Submarine. (A Dutch report asserts the cruiser Scydlitz was observed seri ously damaged after the battle and that it subsequently sank.) Losses Germans Admit BATTLESHIPS Pommcrn. CRUISERS Wiesbaden. Elbing. Frauenlob. Six destroyers. LONDON, June 6. Tho German battlo cruiser fleet has been reduced to thrco or four units. If not less, es a result of the naval engagement In the Nojth Sea on Wednesday, It Is declared here. As lato official reports aro received It becomes more and more evident, experts say, that the British fleet won a declnive victory over the German high seas fleet. At least IS German men-of-war aro now believed to havo been destroyed, aggregat ing 113,435 tons. Fourteen battleships are admitted lost. The British Grand Fleet Is In complete control of tho North Sea and virtually as powerful as ever. It Is declared here. Tho German fleet Is both badly battered and heavily weakened aa a result of the losses sustained on Wednesday and Wednesday night, Britons assert. It will be many weeks before repairs can be made to put the German fleet in fighting trim. junuiant strategy waa shown by Admiral Sir John Jelllcoe and by Admiral Sir David Beatty. High tribute Is paid to the lower officers and men allko. It was significant that the German Naval Office in commenting upon tho great battle paid particular com pliments to the courage of the British . sailors, who fought gallantly to tho very end tvhllo their ships were sinking beneath them. Aa the figures stand at present, It is estimated that 32 ships were lost. If the Germans lost 18 ships, as now claimed, the loss of life may hava been as high as tSOO, men. An official statement. Issued by the Brit ish Admiralty last night, declares that there is "no doubt" that the German losses in tho great sea light of May 31, off the Danish coast, wero greater than those of the British. The statement also reveals, for the first time, that the British grand fleet in the lat ter phase of the battle actually came Into action against the German high seas fleet the first time in the war that either main battle fleet had fired a shot. (The German official statements have from the first con tended that the British main fleet waa en gaged, but this was at first denied by the British.) This statement has had a profound effect on the British public ; and British pride In the navy, after surviving the heavy blow inflicted by the early and unfavorable re ports of the flght, has already remounted to even, greater heights than before. The casualty lists of the Admiralty now issued also show that the British casualties, terrible aa they were, were still not quite so staggering aa had been feared from the early reports, The. loss In commissioned officers was .65Walfham Elgin K Value Njr 512.00 jW fm $ -LjT " rf iff ViBb v ' r ,- I ln.j jrf WM (HSMimu l m A Hm " t- vSIKc If -a-M af ass-fur pr- te$gg fft-YEAR ,dWO GOLD- FILLED Watches Here U our updoo uult to iur a U.tS. Itcai il Bind (Ml Ut fcai U-cjrut soli JUi J, JSTSdlUV Sirmn Tifclil'ti af n Vti. HtlJ air aroiip Buyo... a h.r. tu . - M r Jnffbf wttl Mil jra mm ttr tm met H wateb aa4 dU- 1 SiaiSlUlffOiti,- jsSmSki LONDON, June E Wounded sailors and unwounded survivors who have reached England give thrilling accounts of tho notion. When Uio engagement opened, on Wednesday afternoon, the ships were IB miles apart, tho gunners on both sides firing nt invisible targets. (sailors said tho battle was fought In n sen calm as a mill pond, with a mist hang ing low, making firing at tho longer ranges almost Impossible. "It sounded like 10 thunderstorms rolled Into one," was the description of one. Most briefed It by saying It was "hell." The night duel between the British battle cruiser Invincible and a powerful German ship whose Identity Is uncertain was worthy of the traditions of Nelson, says. the Dally Mall. "The two ships fought like bulldogs, all tho guns roaring as fast ns they could be loaded and fired. "Within half an hour after tho battle began both ships had been sot on fire and the flames lighted up tho gray superstruc tures ns great olumcs of black smoke belched up "Mighty guns were fired In salvos. It wns a fight to dcrth. Both battleships went t6 tho bottom. Admiral Hood went down with tho Invincible, his flag ship, and both men of war disappeared with their flags flying." The naval correspondent of tho Morning Tost calls the engagement tho most notable lctory achieved by tho royal navy In mod ern times. An Interview printed In tho Times, which a sailor on board n battleship gave, says In pirti "It was Just nfter 3 o'clock on Wednes day afternoon when tho order sounded through the ship that sent every mnn to his post Tho decks were already cleared for action ns we wero near German water and wero prepared for any emergenoy. Thcro wns a trying wait when wo didn't know what wad going to happen. At last word went around that Admiral Beatty's flag, tho battlo cruiser Lion which was leading our line, hnd signaled that tho enemy wns In sight. It was not many min utes nfterwnrd that the Lion fired the first shot It was n very long range, but we wero going at full speed and rapidly draw ing In upon the Germans. "Ono by one, tho other ships began firing, and then for five hours we were at It, every gun raining shells at top speed upon the enemy. AVe were shaping a zigzag course nil tho time, In order to prevent the enemy from keeping the range. Most of the fight ing was dono at kOOO jards, and it wns decidedly deadly for tho Germans. The German ships outnumbered us, but tills would not have mattered If they had not the advantage In position, also. During a good part of the fighting the sun made It very difficult for our gunners. Tho Ger mans could see us nil right, but It wai very hard for us to seo them. The shells wero dropping around us like hall, somo hlttirtg nnd other falling Into tho water and casting up high columns of spray. "Our armor plato was dented with holes six Inches doep In somo places, but none o tho German shells hit us in a vital spot, or oven put any of our guns out of com mission Tho worst part of the bombard ment was the use of gas shells, which ex ploded on board, filling tho vessel with sick ening fumes. There were only n few men killed and wounded on our ship, but I saw two or three others burning, and I believe ono was the Invincible. I saw the Queen Mary blow up. "If tho Germans wero using Zeppelins I did not see any of them. It Is doubtful for the Germans apparently had no warn ing of the approach of our big ships. "Tho Queen Mary was the first of the English ships to go down. A gigantic shell pushed into her thinner plating, ex ploding tho magazine. The ship buckled up nnd sank like a stone. Tho next victim of German shells was the Indefatigable. German shells filled with poison gas filled the vessel with volumes, and worked great Jvavoo among tho gun crow. Soon the Lton had to fait out of line, one of her turrets having Jammed and several of her guns haying been put out of commlsalno. "About this time tho Invincible, In domitable and Inflexible arrived from an- omer station, and with them armored cruisers of tho second cruiser squadron, In cluding the Warrior, Defence and Black Prince. '"The Invincible was riddled with shells and tas struck by a torpedo in a vital spot." A dispatch from Edinburgh quotes the Scotsman as eaylng that a Zeppelin was shot down by tho Queen Mary before she sank and fell In flames not far from the vessel. . During the night fighting the air wan il? k. wlth fo nt I'lffh wind sprang up which made tho seas run heavy. It was the roughness of the water that compelled the f onndonmont of the Warrior. She had beon oadly rlddlod and water was pouring Into !!"" throuSh tho rents. !? .wnB lIl nrat Sreftt naval battle on '; u " wnicn tno elements were so varied. Ordinary ships of war were supplemented by Underwater craft nnd nlBo by aircraft, BRITANNIA'S VICTORY SCOllTED BY GERMANS; GIVE PROOF, THEY SAY Two More Such "Tactical Tri umphs" and Fleet Will Be Re t duced to Rowboats, Offi cial Asserts GERMAN CRUISER SEYDLITZ MAY BE BRITISH VICTIM ItOTTnrtDAM, Juno B. Tho powerful Gorman cruiser Sovdlltz may havo been sunk by the British warships. It Is re ported from Itlbet Jutland that the Scyd litz was sighted Thursday mornlng38 miles wost of Fanoo Island going tiouth, pursued by British warships. Sho was badly dam aged. Tho Seydlltz, a sister ship of tho Dcrf-, fllnger, displaced 25,000 tons. LOSS IN MEN ENORMOUS, GERMAN MARINES ADMIT COPENHAGEN, June B. German ma rlncs report that their losses In the battlo oft Jutland on Wednesday wero colossal. Only n few men wero saved from ench of tno lost snips. Survivors from tho cruis ers stayed on rnfts for 30 hours without food. Somo became demented nnd Jumped Into tho sea. 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Great Britain's claim to victory In the naval fight bt Wednes day la taken ne an enormous Joko by all normany. Tho claim la not even accorded the dignity of serious attention. It does not arouse lro or resentment, but mirth only. ' "Yes." irrlnncd one official. "Oreal Britain won an enormous tnctlcal victory. About I name them? two more such tactical victories nnd the British navy would be reduced to row boats." Tho Germans reatlfce Just the position Great Britain Is In. For years and years they have been boasting of their peerless inivrr. Alnriff fjimn ttm land flshtlnff and England did not take her full Dart, but always referred to Its peerless navy the unbeatable nrlde of tho seas which when the moment came would smash Germany forever. It was the navy which waa "go ing; to dig the rats out of their holes." Then catne the fight, and when the snioke o battle cleared away the pride of tho British navy waa nt the bottom of tho North Sea and tho German fleet was riding safely at anchor In Its homo port, according to tho German view. The Germans point out that the British Admiralty was almost forced to make false claims of German losses to prevent the Bhock of the worst naval drubbing of the war from proving too heavy a depressant on tho English people. When the claim of the British that heavy German battleships wero destroyed Is men tioned, German officials tmillo blandly ntul ask "Why doesn't the British Admiralty It should be easy enough If they wero sunk. We were net at a low to name th6 British ships whloh went down." . The Germans claim that ho preserit British policy or refusing t6 admit ts own complete losses and asserting f"W heavy losses for the enemy In i on a par with their system t distributing news thriughbut the war. Admiral Von Tlrplt. resigned. 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