Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-03

destroyed by us The large battleship
Warspite. the battle cruisers Queen
Mary and lndcfatigable two armored
cruisers, apparently Of the Achilles
| type, one small cruiser, the new flag
ship Of the destroyer squadrons, the
Turbulent. Nestor and Alcaster, a
large number of torpedo boat de-
etroyers. and one submarine
"liy observation which was free and
clear of objects, Il was stated that a
large number of English battleships
suffered damage from our ships and
the attacks of our torpedo boat flotilla
during the day engagement and
throughout the night.
Among others the large battle
ship Marlborough was hit by a tor
pcdo. This was confirmed 10y prison
ers
Several Of our ships rescued parts
OF the crews OF the sunken English
ships, among them being two and the
only survivors of the Indefatigable.
"on our side the small cruiser Wies-
baden by hostile gunfre during the
day engagement, and his maIesty's
ship Pommcrn, during the night, as
the result Of n torpedo, were sunk.
THE fate Of his maieslys shin
Fraucnlob which is missing, and Of
some torpedo boats, which have not
returned yet, Is unknown.
''fho high sea fleet returned today
eThuwday) into our port"
From the advicos thus far received
II would appear that the greatest ma
val battle OF history has taken place
Never before have two naval forces
Of such magnitude as the British and
German high sea fleets engaged in
combnt, But apparently the battle
was not fought out to point to ee-
termine mastery of the seas. for the
losses serious ns they are reported to
have been, win not impair the
strength Of either fleet to d great eS-
tent,
Tho scene OF the battle was in the
eastern waters Of the North sea- It is
probable that the fleet was on one Of
the excursions into the North sea
witch il has taken from time TO tins
during the war and met. whether ol
uof hy DESIGN, with the British fleet.
skagerak is an arm of the NORTH
sea between Norway and Denmark
The point referred TO IN the official
3trmNn statement as Horn RIFF prob
ably Is the reef off the horn on tn
southwestern extremity OF Denmark
This would indicate that the battle
WAS fought off the coast OF Denmark
From the reef TO Heligoland. the
rain German naval base In the North
sea, Is about 100 miles
News Of IN enlargement WINS mold
hath hy the British authorities. pos
~, pendlns She return home oi ~
flcet ana the FIRST word received af
the battle came by wireless from bcr-
lin, by which means the Germans are
able TO escape the censorship over ca
Bile lines.
The loss In the engagement must
have been extremely heavy. The bat
tie cruiser lndefatigahle. for instance.
from which the German admiralty re-
ports only two men were saved. prob
ably had moro than 200 men on board
Compliments of men equally or near
" as large.
The dreadnaught Warspite was
sister ship of the Queen Elizabeth
both OF which played prominent
part IN the attempt OF the British
Mediterranean fleet 10 force tho Oar
danellcs. The Wafspito was ESQ feet
long and displaced e7.b00 tons. she
was built in 1914 ut a cost of Si2. 500
600. The Warspite Is reported TO have
carried eight i6-inch guns IN place
OF the l5-inch guns carried by the
Queen Elizabeth. She also was
equipped with twelve or sixteen g.
inch guns, twelve 4-inch guns, four a.
Founders and was fitted with four 2i-
inch torpedo tubes. Her complement
was ESQ men.
The Queen Mary and the Indefa-
ligatle were both British battle cruis-
ers Of 27.O00 and 1880 tons dis
placement respectively The queen
Mary was 720 feet. 50 feet beam and
drew 80 feet of water
The Queen Mary was completed In
1919 She carried eight i3.5-inch
guns and was equipped with three FL
inch torpedo tubes.
The Indcfatlgahle was 57S feet leng. |
1ais feet beam and 27A feet deep |
This battle cruiser was equipped with
eight i2-inch guns. sixteen i-inch