The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-06
BRITISH OFFICERS
ADD HINDENBURG
TO GERMAN Loss
Assert Big Battle Ship Was Sunk
in Jutland Fight
TORPEDOED BY DESTROYERS
London Now Estimates Eighteen Ger
man Ships and Fourteen British
Vessels Went Down.

London, June b.-Brltlsh OihcerS OF
the feet which participated in the Jut-
land battle and have returned identify
two of the big German warships sunk
as the Hindenburg and the Lutzow
The Lutzow, a battle cruiser of 10000
tons, was built at Ranzig and com
pleted in 1915. She was armed with
eight Pinch and y 2i-pounder
guns. Her armor belt was about IS
inches in thickness amidships. She
was $50 feet long and of the latest
and most powerful battle cruiser type.
The Hindenburg is not listed in the
latest naval records. 1t has been re-
ported, however, that she was a bat
telship of the largest and most power
full dreadnought type. She was
launched in the fall of 1915.
Survivors arriving at Edinburgh,
Scot, from British destroyers which
made a massed attack upon a German
battleship in the Jutland battle are
convinced that they sent TO the bot
tom the dreadnought Hindenburg, the
pride of the German navy. These
sailors say that the Hindenburg was
struck successfully by four torpedoes
while the destroyers dashed in along
side of her hull, tearing her to pieces
until the mighty ship reeled and sank.
In view of the latest report of the
British admiralty the press and public
are deyoting their attention to com
putting the losses of the two navies and
the effect the engagement is likely to
have on future naval warfare. says a
dispatch from London. The best es-
innate of IS German ships lost, as
compared with IA British, is accepted
by the majority and the result is now
claimed as a complete victory for the
British fleet.
So far as the German denial of the
British claim is concerned, it is point
ed out that the Germans did not ad
nit the loss of the cruiser Elbing un
til the arrival Of some survivors in
Holland and this is cited as confirma
| tion that the Germans conceal theil
losses until forced by circumstances
to reveal them.
Berlin. June 5, (by Wireless viz
Sayville.) AN authoritative accopn
of the North Sea battle. issued here to
day, gives the first detailed picture o
the engagement between the German
High Seas Fleet and that of the Brit
ish.
Many details of the engagement ar
suppressed for strategic reasons, leal
ing unsatisfed for the present the Gel
man public's thirst for interestin
touches in regard to the individua
achievements of the German warship
and the manner in which the might
British vessels were sent to the bo
. tom.
The recital. however, meets clearl
what is characterized as the British a
tempt to explain defeat by the stat
, ment that the German sea forces
| tne dtllOH were uluCu luISeT iud
those which the British were able
bring into play.
This account states explicitly thu
twenty-six of Admiral Jellicoe's mo-
powerful battleships, including six
the most modern Queen Elizabet
A class, and the entire British flyir
4 wing, composed of battle cruise
equal to dreadnoughts in every I
spect except armor protection, were {
: gagged in all but the early stages of Il
y day battle. The fleet thus asseNbl
4 surpassed in tonnage and weight
y broadsldes the German forces engage
was at least equally modern. and W
far speedier than the squadron
German pre.dreadnoughts, which, lu
bering along at eighteen or ninete
knots, were soon left far to the re
by their swifter oonsorts, out of t
main action