Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-09
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BRITISH ADMIRALTY CHARGES
BERLIN REPORTS OF NAVAL
BATTLE ARE FALSE.
REAR ADMIRAL HOOD IS DEAD
Second in Command to Beatty Went
Down With His vessel-Four Thou
sand Britons Lost In North Sea
Fioht-German Losses Announced.

London, June Ga statement issued
on Sunday by the British admiralty
confirming previous accounts of 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 relative to the strength of
the two fleets but absolutely. 1t is
disclosed the Germans lost 18 war
ships.
There is the strongest ground for
believing, the statement adds, that the
German losses include two large
battleships, two dreadnaught battle
cruisers OF the most powerful type and
two of the latest light cruisers, in ad-
dition to smaller craft, including
submarine.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current In Hamburg that
two additional German warships be-
sides those announced in the German
communication-the battleship West
fallen and the battle cruiser LutzoW
were sunk in the battle. A wireless
dispatch received here Saturday from
Berlin said the German admiralty
admitted che 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, 1nvincl-
BILE, Fortune, Ardent and Shark, De-
tense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbu-
lent, Nomad or. Nestor
Admiral Lord Beresford in an in
terview, 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 fabrications." Otherwise,
said Lord Beresford, no fault can be
found with the admiralty.
Edinburg, June 6.-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 super
Zeppelins was lowering over her, show
ering her with bombs in an attempt to
find vital spot.
"The story is that the Zeppelin was
shot down in blazing mass, fell close
to the ship, exploded and was de-
stroyed.
cat 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 6.-Replying to British
reports that several German dread
naughts and battle cruisers were de-
stroyed in the sea fight off Skager-
Rak, the German admiralty officially
reiterated on Sunday that all the Ger
man losses had been announced.
mo German naval units we're lost
except those mentioned in the official
communique," says the official state
ment.
The communication adds that no
Zeppelin was lost during the battle.