The Sunday Oregonian., June 04, 1916, Section One, Page 2, Image 2

4, 1916.
REPORTS LIGHTEN
GL00HL0M
BRITISH REAR-ADMIRAL WHO LOST LIFE IN GREAT SEA BATTLE
AND TWO ADMIRALS WHO DIRECTED OPERATIONS OF
ENGLAND'S FLEET.
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THE SUNDAY OREGONIANY PORTLAND, JUNE
Great Victory Being Celebra
ted in Berlin Already Be
, v. ginning to Fade.
REPORTS WIDELY VARIANT
German Report Admits Further
Losses, While British Maintain
V They Sank Even More Ships
With an Inferior Fleet.
BT ARTHUR S. DRAPER.
LONDON, June 3. (Special.) At last
the Germans have had their long
awaited "Der Tag-." But the great vic
. tory which Berlin began to celebrate
yesterday as freeing the seas to the
Kaise-r has already begun to fade. As
the latest reports have come In from
Admiral Jellicoe and from neutral ves
sels which witnessed part of the great
battle in the North Sea, the engage
ment is shown to be in no sense the
defeat or the great disaster at first as
sumed. London, though still in the
deepest gloom, at least has had a par
tial relief. The supremacy of the seas
is still unshaken.
British and German admiralty re
1 ports continue to deny each other's
statement of losses and account of the
; action. The British ships sunk still
number the same as yesterday three
- battle cruisers, three cruisers, and
eight destroyers. The German losses
continue to grow, some grudgingly ad
mitted by Berlin, others, still claimed
by London.
Berlin Admits Farther Iki.
' Thus the German War Office, in a
. statement issued tonight, admits the
lose of the light cruiser Elbing. It is
silent, however, on the fate of the two
dreadnoughts of the Kaiser class, as
serted by the British to have been
sunk.
Against a British Admralty state
ment that only two divisions took part
in the battle and that the Germans fled
on the approach of the grand fleet,
Berlin today reiterates its assertion
that the main British forces were en
gaged. Vice-Admiral Scheer. it is contended,
with a numerically inferior fleet, fought
the "entire modern English fleet."
All day rumors have been in circu
lation that eight of the German ships
had been cut off by Admiral Beatty
in Danish waters. The Admiralty re
fuses to confirm or deny them, and
there is a growing hope that the navy
may still be able to redress the heavy
balance in tonnage lost in Wednesday's
battle. Admiral Jellicoe himself swept
the scene of the battle without find
ing a single German ship In evidence.
Loss of Life Grows.
Something of Kipling's "Blood that
is the price of Admiralty" is felt to
day, as the huge losses suffered on
the British ships become known. The
first reports of the loss of life, unfor
tunately, has not been cut down, but
. has been added to.
Of the 6000 men on tha ships that
sank but a few hundred have been
saved. Only four were rescued from
the Queen Mary, while none has been
found from the Invincible. Officers and
crew, including two Admirals, went
down at theft- posts with the Union
Jack floating over their heads.
Deadly as have been battles on land
in this war they do not begin to com
pare with the mortality at sea. To
be on a warship struck by a torpedo
or put out of action by shell fire means
practically certain death. With all the
advance in the science of modern war
fare, as far as safety is concerned, the
old "wooden walls" were far ahead of
the dreadnought.
Quarter Not Asked Nor Given.
As further details reach the Ad
miralty, the full significance of the
war's greatest naval battle begins to be
realized. Both sides fought with the
greatest military gallantry and cour
age, asking and giving no quarter. The
loss of life runs high-on both sides,
the British unofficial estimate plac
ing the number at about 6000. as in an
engagement of this magnitude it was
impossiDie to save many, every ship
looking out for herself alone.
In the words of Admiral Jellicoe,
his only regret was that the "mistv
weather saved the enemy from a more
severe punishment." The mist playevl
a big part In the ultimata result of
the battle, which was fought in four
phases. The first was between prac-
ncauy an equal numoer of battle cruis
ers. In the second the battleships of
the Germans, which nravlnnnlv h1
been hidden in the mist, came to the
support or their battle cruisers. ' The
third waa between the German high
seas fleet and part of Admiral Beat-
'J a "quaqron, wnicn Bad come up
meanwhile. The fourth was marked
by German destroyer attacks, of which
mree were made arter dark. It wad
In the first and second phases that
Britain suffered the greatest losses, the
Germane withdrawing rapidly upon the
arrival of battleships.
Destroyer Attacks Foiled.
A remarkable feature of the conflict
and one speaking-well for British sea
manship was that not a single one of
their ships was lost in these destroyer
attacks. During one stage of the fight
ing the British fleet managed to get
between the German battle cruiser
equadron and the Danish coast, but was
unable to keep them eeparated until
the arrival of the main fleet.
According to the Admiralty's infor
mation Zeppelins did not play so great
part in the battle as first reported.
This was due probably to the mist
which prevented long range observa
tions. The German submarines were about
m an stages or the fight, but it is im
possible to say now whether the three
British ships which blew up met their
fate by a torpedo or shell hitting the
magazines. The battleship Marlborough,
after skillfully avoiding three torpe
does, finally was hit by a fourth, but
was able to reach port safely. The
dreadnought Warspite suffered from
shell fire,, but put back to a British
naroor.
Firing: Is at Close Range.
Because of the mist much firinar was
done at comparatively short range, not
more man three or four miles separat
ing the ships. Naturally, hits were
frequent and punishment great. Four
hours after the British main fleet re
turned it had been coaled, provisioned.
supplied with ammunition! and made
ready for another battle, which shows
how little it suffered. Admiral Beatty
reports that he steamed over the scene
of battle Thursday morning, but found
no sign of the enemy. No efforts are
made to minimize the extent of the
British losses, but it is believed that
the final German reports will show that
the Teuton fleet suffered much more
man mus zar admitted.
Of the actual eye-witness stories
none are of British origin so far as
published. Of Admiral Hood, whose
wife was an American, Ellen Tousalin,
Admiral Beatty writes: 'He led his
division Into action with the most in
spiring gallantry." Admiral Hood went
down with the Invincible. Captain
soweroywho lost his life on the In
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Above Krr-Admlral Horace I- Hoo d, 'M ho Wen Down AVltn the Invinci
ble. Below (Left) -Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty. Who Commanded Crulaer
Squadron) (Right)- Admiral air John Jellicoe, Who Came to Rescue With
Urc'at Battle Fleet.
defatigable, formerly was British naval
attache in Washington.
Admiralty Not Dismayed..
Aside from the loss of personnel.
which the Admiralty greatly regrets, it
is not the least bit dismayed or cast
down. On the contrary it is perfectly
willing to accept the issue again to
morrow, thoroughly satisfied with
British supremacy at sea. The pre
donderant strength of the British navy
would allow of proportionate losses for
days without weakening Great Britain's
hold on the sea.
"Damned bad" was the way one offi
cer summed it up for me. "They were
looking for trouble and they found it.
We suffered losses, but we drove them
into their harbors. The British navy is
always ready for a fight. We are
ready today and we will be ready to
morrow. . . .
There is no denying the fact that the
British people have been greatly so
bered by the reports they have seen. At
this hour thy know nothing beyond the
brief Admiralty communications.
Balfour Being; Attacked.
Already in some quarters the cry is
going up for the return of Lord Fisher
to the headship of the Admiralty. A.
J. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty.
today had a prolonged audience with
King George. His recent letters to the
Mayors of the east coast towns saying
that a readjustment of the naval forces
would minimize the dangers from an
other German sea raid are now being
used against him by government critics,
who argue that any arrangement less
ening the strength of the fleet, no mat
ter how valuable as local protection, is
poor strategy. On the other hand, the
supporters of Mr. Balfour hold that
the German fleet was out for an east
coast raid when intercepted and as a
result the enterprise showed the wis
dom of British strategy.
Germany's tribute to British pluck
and gallantry is returned by British
officers, who say that the fight was
fairly contested and that they are sat
isfied. No developments of the battle
brought new features of naval warfare.
There was no "f rightfulness," and no
signs of 17-lnch guns, of which, so
much has been reported.
CRUISER SINKS RAPIDLY
GERMA3I VESSEL FRATTEXLOB GOES
TO BOTTOM IX 10 MINTJTES.
Survivor Says British Fleet Was Out
numbered and That Tentons Had
Latest Dreadnoughts. Afloat.
THE HOOK, Holland, via London.
June 3. The tugboat Thames has ar
rived here with eight men of the crew
of the German cruiser Frauenlob, which
was sunk In the naval battle off Jut'
land. They say that the warship went
to the bottom ten minutes after she
was struck. Nothing is known of the
fate of the remainder of the crew
of 350.
One of the Frauenlob survivors,
Midshipman Stolzmann, said he be
lieved he and his companions who were
brought here were the only men to
escape. He reports mat nis snip was
fighting from 6 o'clock in the evening
until 1 o'clock in the morning, when
she was torpedoed.
Other survivors say the British were
hopelessly outnumbered by the Ger
mans, who had tnelr latest dread
noughts in action and thought the
British were easy prey.
The British grand fleet came up and
the Germans made a running fight
of it.
LOSSES ARE ABOUT EVEN
(Contlnqgd From First Page.)
units of these were not able to partici
pate in the fighting, and furthermore
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander
of the grand fleet, remained in the
area of the battle after the Germans
had retreated, and swept it thoroughly
In search of enemy ships and survivors.
The King's message to Admiral Jelli
coe states. that the Germans robbed the
British of the opportunity of gaining a
decisive victory Immediately after the
opening of the general battle. Admiral
Beatty, commanding the battleship
squadron, presumably on his old flag
ship, the Lion, was again in the thick
of the action. Every arm of the mod
ern naval warfare was employed bat
tleships, battle cruisers, torpedo-boats,
destroyers, submarines and even Zep
pelins. Whether most of the destruc
tion was accomplished by gunfire or
by the methods known and practiced
by all navies. There were no surprises
and no new devices of weapons or
strategy.
How far the Zeppelins contributed
to the German successes is a matter of
dispute. Only one airship came within
sight, according to the British accounts.
and she was soon badly damaged and
withdrew. But the Germans lay stre
on the assistance rendered by their air
service and neutrals report the pres
ence of six Zeppelins in the North Sea.
The popular belief among the British
public is that scouting Zeppelins kept
the. German fleet informed by wireless
of the approach of their enemy and of
their numbers and formation.
Stories of Hero lain Told.
From survivors come thrilling stories
of the horrors and inhumanities of the
terrible battle. The British destroyer
shark acted as a decoy to the German
ships in the engagement. She was bat'
tered to pieces by gunfire, and a half
dozen sailors, picked up clinging to i
buoy by a Danish ship, tell of her com
mander and two seamen serving her
only remaining gun until the last min
ute, when the commanders lee? was
blown off.
There are stories of ships sinking
with a great explosion: of crews going
down singing the national anthem: of
merchant ships passing through a sea
thick with floating bodies.
A lifeboat with German survivors
from the German cruisers Elbing res
cued Surgeon Burton, of the British
destroyer Tipperary. He had sustained
four wounds. Two well-known Lon
don clergymen who had volunteered to
serve as chaplains at the beginning of
the war, Mr. Lyndell and Mr. Lepatou
rel, both of the Church of England,
were among the missing. Mr. Lyndell
Is a nephew of Field Marshal Viscount
French. He was to have been married'
in London Monday.
Portsmouth Is a town of mourning.
Three thousand of the men who went
into the battle came from Portsmouth,
and most of them leave families.
- The Admiralty has been crowded all
day with anxious men and women of
all classes trying to learn the fate of
relatives. Only the names of surviv
ing officers were published today. Many
persons who have relatives and friends
in the navy are ignorant of what ves
sels they are serving on. Accurate
casualty lists cannot be issued until
the identity is known of the survivors
who have been taken to Holland and
Scandinavian ports.
The Admiralty has no Information
concerning a report that the German
dreadnought Hindenburr was sunk.
Lorli Fisher Clamor Rises.
LONDON. June 8. The Daily News
calls for the return of Lord Fisher,
formerly First Sea Lord of the Ad
miralty, to the head of the mtt.
"No single event." says the news
paper, "would more effectually coun
teract the danger of a diminution of
confidence ii the navy if It exists, than
the return of Lord Fisher, who In time
of peace brought the navy to a state
of unexampled efficiency. The country
needs him in this urgent hour."
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officers say that the battle was fought
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