West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-01-28
NINE DESTROYS
BRITISH VESSEL
lmoFed Merchantmen viknor
Sinks OF Irish Coast
DETAILS NOT YET GIVEN OUT
England Denies German Report Of
oattIe In North Sea Which Stated
That English Cruiser Had Been
eunk-eritish Acclaim Admiral
eeatty As Hero-Gernan Reports
That 6Iuecher Was Lost.


London. Jan. 26. - The steamship
vtknor. recently armed by the govern
ment and added TO the scout and COM
merce protector uAits OF the navy. has
been lost on the Irish coast.
Undoubtedly all OF her company met
death. She carried crew OF probably
500 men.
Details OF the disaster are not yet
-ootainable and the amount of lives
lost has not been ascertained.
The news caused a suppression of
much OF the JOY i'm evidence since the
news OF the naval engagement Sun
day when the German cruiser B.uech-
er was sunk.
Tho latest British ship counted
among the missing is reported to have
struck mine or foundered.
The German version of the North
sea battle saying that one of the Brit
ish battle cruisers was sunk is abso-
lutely controverted by the report sent
to the British admiralty by Vice Ad
mtral Beatty Immediately after the
conclusion of the battle.
Admiral Beatty wirelessed mo Brit
ish ships have been lost" II is not
considered possible that the com.
mander OF the victorious fleet resort
ed to useless subterfuge In phraseol.
oSy or that he used the words ships"
to conceal the fact that a single ship
was lost. Furthermore the vice ad-
mirals report that the casualties were
slight Is sufficient proof that the Brit
ish feet came out of the fight intact.
The report from the Frisian islands
that four-funneled German cruiser
Was seen making her way slowly east
ward, apparently crippled, is of keen
interest, as the island OF Schiermon-
-Oog, or the north coast OF Hol-
I'd. is about the distance from Hell
land that the fight ended. This
cruiser, with her battered companions.
succeeded, however, In regaining a
home port according to the German
admiralty.
The Joy satisfaction felt by the
British public has not abated. The
victory is taken to mean that the Ger
mans cannot raid coast towns with
impunity and that they will be beaten
every time they are detected at the
raiding. Admiral Beatty is the naval
hero OF the hour.
Germans Claim English Boat Sunk.
Berlin, Jan. 26.-The following of
fetal announcement on the naval en-
gagement IN the North sea was given
out in Berlin:
During the advance OF our armored
cruisers Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Moltke
and Bluecher. which, accompanied by
four smaller cruisers and two fiotillas
of torpedo boats, were steaming I'm
the North sea. these vessels became
engaged with British detachment
composed OF FIVE battle cruisers, sew
erai smaller cruisers and twenty-six
torpedo boat destroycrs.
"The enemy discontinued the en-.
gagement after three hours time at a
point seventy miles west northwest
Of Helgo.and and retreated.
According TO the information avail
able one British battle cruiser and
one OF our armored cruisers. the
Bluecher. were sunk. All the other
German ships returned to port"
The news of the sea fight in the
North sea to the west OF Hclgoland
was received in Germany with much
satisfaction, despite the loss OF the
German cruiser Bluecher. The Berlin
newspapers assume, pending receipt
of the English report. that the British
battle cruiser reported sunk in the en-
gagement was a vessel considerably
larger than the Bluecher.
Woman's Alleged Slayer Arrested.
Harrisburg, Pa. Jan 26-paui Van