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It Is estimated ISO ships engaged in the battle. It is not oonsldnred probable the shipwrecked British and German sailors will be interned In Holland, as they have promised not to at tempt to escape. * powder smoke and so thick was the weather that, despite our nearness we cculd see only the dim outlines of the warships. Preadnaughts Catch Fire "The fog and darkness was pierced by the red glare from the big naval guns "Around the German ships huge rolumns of water rose high into the air like geysers as the shells from the English men of war fell around them. "Two of the German dreadnaughts caught Are and we could see smoke rolling up tnrough her super structure in the lurid glow. The flight and pursuit was on at top speed when the vessels got beyond our vision." The destruction of three battle cruisers by German gunfire has re vived reports that were current some time ago that monster 17-inch guns were being Installed upon German warships to outrange the guns on the ships of every other navy. Six Zeppelins There were six Zeppelins in the air fleet which took part in the flght, ac cording to a dispatch to the Mail from Copenhagen. One of them is reported to have been badly damaged by British gunfire. "TTie presence oT so formidable a British fleet near Helgeland, the German base, has aroused much speculation here. Both fleets were reinforced before the battle ended by the Germans taking flight. Details of this feature of the en gagement are furnished by the follow ing dispatch from Copenhagen: "The captain of the Danish steam ship Naesborg gives the following ac count of the sea flght: " "When the Naesborg was ninety five miles west of Cape Hanstholm on the northwest coast-of Jutland, a few small British warships appeared pur sued by the German fleet. Suddenly the British warships turned and steamed westward, violently shelled. Tn a few minutes a large number of British dreadnaught cruisers appeared from the north and west. The British then began attacking the German ships which were reinforced from the south. A violent flght raged. "T7ie sky was filled with smoke and the sea In a state of uproar. '' 'At last the German fleet was drawn westward pursued by the Brit ish while several more British ap peared coming from the westward. The German fleet was divided in two parts, one of which escaped. I don't know the fate of the other." " It. is reported that Admiral Horace Hood flew his flag on the destroyed battle cruiser Invincible as second in command of the battle cruiser squad ron. Six Zeppelins Participated in Fight; One Badly Hit; Kaiser Demanded Battle By Associated Prtss London, June 3.—Six Zeppelins par ticipated In the naval engagement off the coast of Jutland on Wednesday, according to a dispatch from Copen hagen to the Dally Mail. One of the the L.-24, was hit several ' times and badly damaged, the report says, but she was able to reach the Schleswig coast. Several of her men were wounded and all of her supplies had to be thrown overboard. A dispatch from the same source declares it Is generally stated In Berlin that the activity of the German fleet was due to the energetic demands of Emperor 'William to his brother. Ad miral Prince Henry of Prussia, com mander-in-chief of the navy, and Ad miral von Capelle. minister of the navy, an the emperor's visit last week to WUb«lmat>av«n, ( SATURDAY EVENING, Commander of Elbing Opens Valves After Gun Fire of British Ruins Ship By Associated Press Ymuiden, Netherlands, June 3. These details of the sinking of the German cruiser Elbing were learned here to-day from Dutch crews, Ger man sailors and the Dutch military commander of Ymuiden, who spoke to three of the German cruiser's officers. The Elbing was a new and fast cruiser of about 4,000 or 5,000 tons and carried a crew of 460. The British gunfire caused sucli destruction on the ship that Captain M&dllng, who was among the three officers saved, decided to have the valves opened and to allow the vessel to sink. Before the Elbing went down the bulk of the crew WHS taken over by a German torpedoboat. but doubts may be expressed as to whether the sailors arrived safely at Wilhelmshaven. Twenty-one men remained on board until the vessel foundered, when they left in a lifeboat. Later they were picked up by a Dutch trawler. Members of the Dutch crew said that when the Elbing sank the sea was covered with drift wood and dead bodies were floating: around. Some of the sailors saw a German warship in a sinking condition, while others no ticed warships blazing. Six of 111-Fated Ships From Portsmouth; Pathetic Scenes When Families Get News By Associated Press ' Portsmouth, Eng.. June 3. All last night crowds of anxious people besieged the dock yards and news papers here for news of relatives and friends among the crews of the British vessels sunk in the North Sea battle, six of the 111-fated ships, Queen Mary, Invincible, Black Prince, For tune. Sparrowhawk and Ardent, hav ing belonged to this port. Little In formation besides that given in the British admiralty statement, however, was available. Portsmouth had been looking for | ward to a sea fight but news of the 1 disaster which has befallen several of i Great Britain's vessels fell like a ] thunderbolt among the people who | never had anticipated any result like I this. Reports of the fight spread like wild fire and pathetic scenes were wit nessed at the dock yards and the : newspaper offices where stricken ; families pleaded for some word of hope concerning the men who. it was i feared, had gone down with the | ships. * Crew of German Cruiser Elbing Landed; Vessel Not Mentioned in Statements By Associated Press Ymulden. Holland, June 3. —Three officers, three petty officers and twelve sailors of the crew of the new small | German cruiser Elbing, which was lost | in the Jutland battle, have been landed here. One officer said the Elbing sank I after she was rammed by another Ger | man vessel, which rescued the remain ! rler of her crew. Another maintained the Elbing was blown up by the heavy I firing of her own guns. One of the Elbing's boats, containing some of her crew and some British officers who were picked up by the trawler Bertha, are being brought here. The loss of the Elbing is not men tioned in either the British or German official accounts of the battle, but the British admiralty statement says that a "light German cruiser" was sunk. The Elbing does not appear in avail able naval lists. Two Zeppelins Reported Lost With All Their Crews By Associated Press Esjberg, Denmark, June 2, 12.15 P. M.—Two Zeppelin dirigible balloons are reported by fishermen returning to port to-day to have been destroyed. On one airship all the members of the crew are said to have perished. The Avis Lamvig states that fisher men arriving this afternoon report that yesterday they saw a Zeppelin in flames as the result of gunfire and that it was destroyed forty miles off the Thyboroln canal. The fishermen say the entire crew perished. The Ekstrahladt says fishermen ar riving at Ringkjobing say they saw another Zeppelin destroyed yesierday some miles from these waters. A fishing cutter to-day brought into Ksjberg fourteen empty torpedo tubes. tubes. i U-28 Survivors Report German Losses Colossal Tjonilon, June 3—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copen hngen says the German torpedo lx>nt V-28 was sunk during the naval engagement. Three survivors who were rescued from a raft by a Swedish steamship reported, the dispatch says, that all the rest of the crew of 102 were lost. According to this dispatch the survivors of the V-28 said they be lieved twenty German torpedolX>ats were destroyed and that the Ger man losses as a whole were Most Serious Losses to British to This Time Have Been Caused by Submarines Since the beginning of the war Brit ish cruisers and destroyers have pa trolled during day and night the ap proaches to the German fleet's base in the bay formed by the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser, protected by the mighty fortifications of Wilhelms haven on the south, on the north by the supposedly impregnable defenses of the Kiel canal, and guarded by the outlying island of Helgoland. Until the engagement that has just occurred, however, no German fleet has put forth In force to necessitate the giving of the alarm to the British main fleet that its foe was coming out to give battle. The rendezvous of the British battle fleet has been a secret, but is generally believed to have been in the Orkney Islands, north of Scot land. The long months of watchful wait ins by the British, however, were broken into by two naval engagements, in which comparam ely small squad rons of German warships were in volved, and in both of which the Brit ish were victorious. On August 18, 1914, Admiral Sir David Beatty on his llagship, the battle cruiser Lion, led his squadron in a daring dush into the bight of Helgoland. Jn an engagement almost under the guns of this great fortress three German armored cruis ers and two destroyers were sunk with a loss of 2,500 men. Previous Running- Fights On January 24, 1915, a German squadron attempting a raid on the British coast encountered Admiral Beatty off the Dogger Banks and in a running fight the German cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two of her sis ter ships set on fire. Several raids have been made by German naval de tachments on the British coast, in which Yarmouth, Scarborough, Whit by, Hartlepool and Lowestoft have been bombarded. The last of these raids occurred April 26 last, on which occasion, according to the German claim, a British destroyer and two scout ships were sunk. The most serious losses to the Brit ish fleet hitherto have been through the operations of German submarines and by means of mines. Such an instance occurred Septem ber 22, 1914, when the British cruis ers Hogue, Cressy and Aboukir were torpedoed within all hour by the Ger man submarine U-9. The German navy, however, performed brilliant feats in regions far distant from Europe, its most notable victory be ing in the battle off Coronel, Chile, early in the war, when the German far eastern squadron, attempting to reach home waters, encountered a British fleet under Admiral Cradock. In the battle the Germans sent the British cruisers Good Hope and Mon mouth to the bottom with all hands. A month later a British squadron met the victorious Germans off the Falk land Islands and of the five German cruisers in the squadron four, the Scharnhorst, the Gneisena, the Nur emburg and the Leipsic were sent to the bottom. The fifth, the Dresden, es caped, but was caught later at Juan Fernandez and destroyed. Rear Admiral Hood Is Believed to Have Gone Down With Cruiser Invincible By Associated Press London. June 3. Rear Admiral Horace Hood probably lost his life when the battle cruiser Invincible was sunk in the Jutland battle. Admiral Hood was flying his flag on the In vincible as second In command of the battle cruiser squadrcn. Admiral Hood war 4 6 years of age and was naval secretary to the first, lord of the udmlrally at the outbreak oi llie war, ( HARRISBURG r £jf&S TELEGRAPH RESULT PLEASING TO ALL GERMANY Jubilant Over Comparative Losses; Maintain Field; Many Individual Fights Berlin, June 3. By Wireless from a Staff Correspondent of the Associat ed Press, via Sayville, N. T.—The first naval battle on a grand scale during the present war, has been attended by results which, according to the infor mation received here are highly satis factory to the Germans, not only in respect of the comparative losses of the two fleets but in the fact that the Germans maintained the field after the battle. This is shown, German commentators assert, by the rescue of British survivors. The full German high sea fleet was engaged under personal command of Vice-Admiral Scheer, the energetic German commander who succeeded Admiral Von Pohl. The British fleet is now estimated at approximately twice as strong in guns and ships as that under Admiral Scheer. .Many Separate Fights Detailed reports have not yet been received but the main engagement ap parently occurred about 125 miles southwest of the southern extremity of Norway and 150 miles off the Dan ish coast. The battle was divided into two sections. The day engagement began at about 4 o'clock in the after noon and continued until darkness or about 9 o'clock. This was followed by a series of separate engagements through the night. The exact ranges and courses of the day fight have not been ascertained. It is assumed the ranges of the day engagement were not extreme possi bly at a distance of about eight miles, as the weather was hazy. The German torpedoboats 1 and de stroyers were more effective than the British accounting to a considerable extent for the successes of the Ger mans against an overwhelmingly su perior force. It is understood the Queen Mary and the Indefatigable were both sunk In the day battle. It has not been learned when the War spite and the other British warships went down. (The loss of the Warspite lis denied officially by the British.) I All the German warships except I those mentioned in the official dls | patches reached Wilhelmshaven safely. Thus far nothing has been reported I regarding the extent to which any of I these vessels were damaged. Berlin Decked With Flags It is stated at the Admiralty that at ! least 34 British capital ships were en gaged and that the British torpedo flotillas were severely handled. The battleship Westfalen alone sank six torpedoboats during the night en counters. Germany's personnel and material alike stood the test brilliantly and the damage sustained by the German fleet is small in comparison with the Brit ish losses. The battleship Pommern, which was sunk, was commanded by Captain Boelken. > Berlin is decked with flags and the | achievement of the German fleet has j aroused the greatest enthusiasm. There was a remarkable demonstra tion in the Reichstag when Rear Ad miral Hebblnghaus, former naval at tache to the German embassy at Wash ington, announced the result of the battle. Admiral Scheer, One of Ablest Tacticians of Navy in Command of Germans \ Amsterdam, via I,ondon, June 3. Advices from Berlin say that Vice- Admiral Scheer, commander of the German battle fleet, was in personal command of the German forces in the battle off Jutland, while the scout division was under the direction of \ ice Admiral Hipper. The German forces Consisted of the German high seas fleet with dreadnaughts, older ships of the line, battle cruisers, all the light sea forces at present in the North Sea, torpedoboat destroyers and i submarine flotillas. Admiral Hipper came into contact i with the enemy about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when he engaged a squad | ton of British cruisers and light cruis- I ers. Subsequently the whole fleets on both sides engaged and the fighting lasted until 9 in the evening, Later on in the night the ships were engaged again. The leading German vessels alone sank six modern destroyers. All reports from the German sea forces which participated in the battle i agree on the bravery shown by the t enemy in the long battle. The "crews of the German torpedoboats which were sunk have not been heard from, but the majority of the men on the other vessels which were lost were res cued despite the unfavorable weather. Naval airships gave valuable aid in re connoitering before and after the battle. Vice-Admiral Scheer was appointed commander of the German battle fleet in February of this; year, succeeding Admiral von Polil, who retired on ac count of ill health. Admiral Scheer is considered one of the ablest tacticians in the German navy. He was for a long time director of the general ma rine department at the admiralty and also served as chief of staff of the high seas fleet and as commander of a battle squadron. Admiral Hipper was in command of the German squadron which fought a battle with the British squadron under Admiral Sir David Beatty in January, 1915. It was in i this battle that the German cruiser : Bluecher was sunk. rowds Cheer Wounded as They Reach London London, June 3. Wounded men from the North Sea battle reached London to-day. They were quickly removed to hospitals or their homes by Red Cross ambulances. The public was strictly prohibited from talking to the men, but crowds assembled at the railway stations cheering them. Some of the men were carried from the cars in stretch ers. while others with heads or arms bandaged or showing marks of burns and scalds walked along to waiting ambulances. There is no estimate of the number of wounded, but it is feared the loss of life will exceed 5,000 officers and men, including the whole crew of the Queen Mary, which, the admiralty has been advised, has been lost In Its en tirety. The Evening News states that Vlce- Admlral Sir David Beatty, who was In command of the battle cruiser squad ron, was not harmed. 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