Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-06
Admiralty Asserts that Eigh-
teen Ships in All Were
Destroyed in Battle.
GREATER THAN The BRITISH
Official List Of Casualties Show
That Few Officers Escaped
From Doomed Ships.

London, June 5.-The British adj
mirality last night issued a statement
saying there was the strongest grounds
for the belief that the British navy in
the battle with the Germans off Jut-
land last week had accounted for a to-
tai of eighteen German men of war,
and that there was nothing to add to
or subtract from the original announce
ment of the British losses.
The statement gave the German loss
es as two battleships, two dread
nought battle cruisers, four light
cruisers, and nine torpedo boat de-
stroyers and a submarine.
The pessimism which prevailed asa
result of the admiralty's original state
ment of losses, which now is consid-
cred to have been needlessly candid
and conservative in Understanding
the extent of the German losses as
compared with those of Greal Britain,
has been greatly lessened by the lat
est statement.
lWESTFALEN ANDLUTZOW SUNK
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumOrS are current in Hamburg that
| two additional German warships than
those announced in the German COM
muhication-th battleship Westfalen
and the battle cruiser LutzOw-were
sunk in the battle. A wireless dis
patch received here Saturday from
Berlin said the German admiralty adj
mitted the loss of the Westfalen.
The admiralty statement declares
that the German losses in the fight
were not only relatively, but abso-
lutely greater than those Of the Brit
.ish. Maintaining its practice of eau
ton, the admiralty still refrains from
giving the names Of the lost German
ships.
The official list Of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly
single officer Of the line escaped from
the British cruisers sunk in the battle.
An additional casualty list of petty Of
ficers show that forty-three of them
were saved from the Queen Mary,
Invincible, Fortune, Ardent and
Shark. None were saved from the
Indefatigable, Defense, Black Prince,
Tipperary, Turbulent, Nomad or Mes
tor.
The list gives the names of sixty
five men killed aboard the Warrior
and of twenty-seven men wounded.
On the other ships engaged in the
fight, 1l5 men were killed and IS
wounded,
BERESFORD IN INTERVIEW.
Admiral Lord Beresford in an IN
terview today while strongly contend
ing for the view that, there was no
failure in the British strategy and that
Vice-Admiral Beatty won brilliant
success, though it was dearly bought,
declares that the only mistake maize
by the admiralty was in allowing the
Germans to get first in the field with
the news of the battle, or as he puts
it, with 'impudent fabrications.
Otherwise, said Lord Beresford, mo
fault can be found with the admiral
ty."
KAISER PRAISES FLEET.
Amsterdam, June 5.-Via Lon
don.)-A telegram from Emperor
William in reply to message of con-
graduation upon 'the victory of our
high seas fleet over a greatly superior
English battle fleet" was read at
sitting of the Prussian diet by Count
Schwerinn, the president:
with YOU" said the emperor. AZ
am proud OF our mighty feet which
by this feat Of arms has proved Il is an
even match for a superior enemv %