The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-01-28
ATTEMPT BY TEuToN SQUADRON
TO REPEAT ATTACK ON ENG
LlSH COAST TOWNS is
FAILURE.
TWO BATTLE CRUISERS
SERIOUSLY DAMAGED
British Ships Suffer Only Slight In
iury-Clash Occurred Between
Light Cruisers and Destroyers
Only 1913 Of Cr.w
Are Saved.

Scarborough, the H~artlepools and
other British coast towns was frus.
trated by the British %patrolling squad
ron, and in n running fight the Ger
man armored cruiser Bluecher was
sunk and two German battle cruisers
were seriously damaged.
The British ships suffered only
slight injury. So far as is known
only 1913 of the Butchers crew OF
SS5 were saved.
A battle also occurred between the
light cruisers and destroyers, accom-,
panying the bigger ships. but the re.
suit of this engagement has not yet
reached the admiralty.
The British were superior in ships
engaged, weight Of armamen and
speed, and the fight of the German
ships into the mine and submarine in.
tested field possibly saved them from
further losses.
8luecher Re-risged Last Year.
The Bluecher was a cruiser of 15,-
$50 tons displacement, and although
commissioned in 1908, was complete
ly re-rigged last year. She was not
classed as a battle-cruiser, but was in
the next class to those formidable
fighters. With her were the Derfinger,
Germany's latest battle cruiser, which
had just left the builders hands, and
the battle cruisers Seydlitz and Mott
Ike, the latter a sister ship of the
Goeben, formerly of the German. but
now of the Turkish fleet, which was
recently reported damaged by the
Russians in the Black Sea.
The British squadron, commanded
by Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, who
also was I'm command at the battle
off Helgoland last August. consisted
of the battle cruisers Tiger, LION,
Princess Royal, New Zealand and In
domitable. The first three of these
cruisers mount eight 1876 inch guns
each, and even the New Zealand and
Indomitable carry II inch guns, which
are equal to those of the Derfinger,
the only one of the German ships that
had better than II inch guns.
Sight German Cruisers.
The official report issued by the
Press Bureau gives the following ac.
count of the engagement:
Early in the morning a British pa.
trolling squadron of battle cruisers
and light cruisers, under Vice Admiral
Sir David Beatty, with a destroyer flo
tilla under Commodore Tyrwihitte.
sighted four German battle cruisers,
several light cruisers, and a number
of d~estroyers steering westward, and
apparently making for the English
coast.
THE enemy at once made for home
at high speed. They were at once
pursued and at about $3.50 a. m. &C.
ton was Joined between the battle
cruisers Lion, Tiger, Princess Royal,
New Zealand and Indomitable on the
n hand and the Derflinger, Syedlitz.
Moltke and Bluecher on the other. A
well contested running fight ensued.
Shortly after / o'clock the Bluecher,
which had previously fallen out of line,
capsized and sank.
admiral Beatty reports hat two
other battle cruisers were seriously
damaged. They were, however, able
to continue their flight and reached
an area where danger from German
submarines and mines prevented fur
Their pursuit.
NO British ships have been lost
and our casualties in personnel at
present reported are slight. the Lion.
which led the line. having only eleven
wounded and none killed.
Survivors Are Few.