South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-15
PEEVED BE CAUSE.
He DIDN' I SEE
BLUEGHER SUNK
British Torpedo Boat Officer
Forced to Hang Around on
Edge and Watch Big Ships
Shell Each Other.
BY a Special Correspondent.

LONDON. March 15.-I have Just
come into possession OF an interesting
account OF the North sea battle in
which the Bluecher was sunk. written
BY a British officer Of the destroyer
"SanCay" He says.
am afraid j can't say that the
Ssndhy took a leading part on Sunday.
You see It was nearly entirely big
ship action and the destroyers hardly
got a chance
We had a beastly night on Saturday;
you could not see a thing except al in
tervais and you had to look out as best
you could. AS the light got better we
made out the enemy battle cruisers
making our way 1 was vet through.
having come up quickly without IN
oilskin. which I won't do again even
though / am lit late on the fore
castle. also suffering a bit from sea-
sickness. 1 suppose at pinch one
can fght well even though its on an
empty stomach and no sleep and wet
through, but / ann blowed if you can
II you are feeling seasick.
Run at sight or Lion.
a bit later we made out some heavy
ships on our port side eve were steam
Ing nOrth.) These might have been
Germans for ali we knew i'm the Sand
fly The German ships came ON for a
bit but as soon as they caught sight
of the lion and that lot. they altered
course 10 points and made off to-
wards the fatherland as quick as they
could. We realized then that we
should see some very pretty firing and
something rather out of the common
as for the first time during the war
our latest super-dreadnaught We're
going TO be pitted against theirs, and
the numbers on either side were more
or less equal.
About a.. IN. our leading ships
fired ranging shots from the fore tur-
rets. but they fell short about $50
10 seemed that the enemy were within
range, and at 9:45 the Tiger and Lion
seemed 10 be firing their whole broad
sides regularly, and about 10 a. M the
Lion. Tiger. New Zealand and Princess
Royal were all in action. II was very
hard to see from where we were as
our bridge was washing down. and one
could not keep the binoculars dry.
As far as We could see our shots were
straddling them all right and theirs
seemed TO be all around our two lead
ing ships. especially the Tiger
can't say l was very impressed with
the action, as it looked Just the same
seen in peace time I have NO doubt
DO was quite exciting enough. though.
in the -. C.s or to anyone who had
not seen ships engaged before At
1905 we sighted "a Zepp. About the
progress of action and damage each
side was dOing we could tell. very
little. except that their shooting seem
cd jolly good.
Lion Badly Hurt
At 1910 we came up 10 the Lion,
who had fallen out Of the line and was
listing a good deal to port. other
wise she seemed perfectly all right.
However. she was obviously out of
action and il did not cheer us up at
all as. for all we knew. our other
three might be getting the worst Of
IT, The first fOtilla boats formed "a
screen around the Lion and after this
We were out of the lighting altogether
and much TO our annoyance we had to
let the whole concern drift away TO
The eastward splitting out flame and
smoke at each other quite in approved
style. Our main care was now guard
Ing the Lion from torpedo attack, and
We steamed slowly northwest. The
admiral shifted his flag TO the Ach-
eron. At , p. m. the remainder of our
ships appeared astern of us and o> err