The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-06-08
LONDON CLAIMS
l8 GERMAN SHIPS
WERE DESTROYED
Claims Berlin Reports OF Battle
Are False.
REAR ADMIRAL HOOD IS DEAD
Second In Command to Beatty Went
Down With His Vessel-Four
Thousand 5rItons Lost In
North Sea Fight.
REAR ADMIRAL HOOD IS DEAD

London, June Ga statement issued
on Sunday by the British admiralty
confirming previous accounts or the
battle between the British and Ger
man fleets, reiterates that the German
accounts of the German losses are
false, and that, although the evidence
IS still incomplete, enough is known
to justify stating that the German
losses were greater than the British,
mot merely relatively to the strength
of the two fleets but absolutely" 1t Is
disclosed the Germans lost Is war
ships.
There is the strongest ground for
believing, the statement adds, that the
German losses include two German
battleships. two dreadnaught battle
cruisers of the most powerful type and
two Of the latest light cruisers, in ad.
dition to smaller craft, including a
submarine.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships be-
sides those announced in the German
communication battleship West
fallen and the battle cruiser Lut2ow
we're sunk in the battle A wireless
dispatch received here Saturday from
Berlin said the German admiralty
admitted the loss OF the Westfalen.
The official list Of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly
single officer of the line escaped from
the British cruisers sunk in the bat
tie
An additional casualty list Of petty
officers shows that 43 Of them were
saved from the Queen Mary, Invinci-
BILE Fortune. Ardent and Shark. None
was saved from the Indeiatigable, De
Tense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Tur-
bulent, Nomad or Nestor
Admiral Lord Beresford in an in
teryiew, while cOntending strongly for
the view that there was no failure IN
the British strategy and that Vice Ad.
miral Beatty won a brilliant success,
though it was dearly bought, declares
that the only mistake made was by
the admiralty in allowing the Germans
TO get first in the field with the news
of the battle or as he puts it, with
"impudent fabrcations." Otherwise,
said Lord Bereslord no fault can be
found with the admiralty.
Edinburgh, June G.-The Scotsman
prints the following graphic story
THE Queen Mary went down in the
thick Of the action. The men who
have returned say she fought at close
range a German battleship and while
her great guns were busy with the
more powerful and better protected
German ship. one of the kaiser's su.
pcr-IeppeIins was lowering over her,
showering her with bombs in an at.
tempt to find a vital spot
THE story is that the Zeppelin was
shot down in blazing mass, fell close
to the ship, exploded and was de-
stroyed
AT the same time the Queen Mary
received two terrific broadsides, A
shot belched which reached her maya
zine. There was great explosion
and within six minutes she went
down
Berlin, June G.-RcplyIng TO British
reports that several German dread.
naughts and battle cruisers were de.
stroyed in the sea fight of Skager
rak, the German admiralty officially
reiterated on Sunday that all the Ger.
man losses had been announced
No German naval units were lost
except those mentioned in the official
communique," says the official state
mcnt
The communication adds that no
Zeppelin was lost during the battle.