Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-09-13

LONDON special
The following letters were written by
a young officer of the navy VINO eook
part in the battle of Jutland, and are
published with the permission of the
admiralty. The young officer is the son
of a distinguished man. we'll known TO
both Americans and Englishmen:
The mail has just left with my letter
to mother, but L will continue to yourself.
and you will get it a day later. 1t is
Sunday afternoon. and what can l do
better than write to MY Papa especial
ate II light luncheon, lest | might feel
sleepy.
Well, wrote you rather a glum note.
which l enclosed in C's letter; but on our
return we We're under orders to use only
postcards. i am no good at writing post
cards.
To resume, it was a glum note, but
remember that I was still under the in
fIucnce of seeing two British battle cruis-
ers blown up Just like a chi'd's squib,
and that AS far as we then knew. we had
played a game with the enemy with ships
as chips, and had forfeited six to his none.
But since then more news has come
to hand-tales OF sunken battleships 1--WE
lost none, you know and shattered bat
tile cruisers; eye witnesses descriptions
OF sunk light cruisers that ! had not even
seen: Il circumstantial account from our
revered leader as to her torpedoilg of
one of the enemy's finest battlesfips, and
the effect of the blowing up OF the In
vlncible and Queen Mary has worn off
considerably.
1t is rather like what the school,naster
said OF the children who watched our
fireworks and cried from tiredneSs:
They will remember the fireworks and
forget the tiredness.'
Saw Cruiser Go Down..
I remember lots of things. l remem-
Der a light cruiser lying stopped right in
the path of our battle fleet, steam pour
ing from her tunnels and flames spouting
from her decks. shells still bursting on
her and the sunlight playing on her Well
SQnf Cidn tHn nr,cnt tho Cy1n ia NJ
on the just and on the unjust!" She was
only able to avoid our battIeships by the
primitive and not wholly satisfactory
as long in my memory as that of the
sinking Mainz and the death of the In
ssnce of triumphant spirit.
A little British destroyer, her midships
rent by a great shell meant for a battle
cruiser. eXuding steam from every pore.
able to go ahead but not to steer, coming
down diagonally across our line (Which
to get out of anybody's way; likely to be
rammed by any one Of a dozen ships, her
M s1rsn w whn1A ing Let me through!
dressed In iifebeits. ready for her final
piunse-and cheering Wildly as If it might
have been an enthusiastic crowd when
am an Englishman! You win be glad
to near that she is now, after all; safe
up-the Queen Mary. 10 minutes earlier;
she had just been winged, and that was
her reply.,perfectly spontaneous cheer
! remember: too, dashing. out from
where we had been to strafe the Hun de-
stroyers. Somebody said "submarine!"
stroyer Bottom a,"; up s"" None lone Of %" ours had had
been near there.
Met Foes Battle Fleet.
str ! ~ remembss dashing out again to
line Of battle instead aeo ' That was .'e exc m I
but. too. it was one of life's cherished
moments when we had returned ito the
mad a a' signal: S We Is 9 firi"a o at yoaae
and we replied: "The enemy's battle
There was also that Evening Star Shell,
descending like the dove of peace over
the troubled waters. about which l wrote
to mother. I would not W. missed that
went north on an enterprise" that they
encountered the British fleet and re-
priseY' Is pt that a "" Victory %. '"e The e Hans
have repeatedly come out to look for
the British navy and not found it"
did ven shey th do s aias thy iss r f9aea they lss Mhss
good their escape! Is that a Victory ?
The Huns have had to remain in their
t 0Ss ss.>s SV SOSAAC 0oSs
victory bear such fruits?
The Huns met US just off their own
coast, on May 81. June 1 saw the British
fleet searching for them just outside
their mine fields. and furious at missing
them. 1t saw them In harbor, rubbing
their hands-over what7 Over a victory7
No! but because they had escaped with
their lives. We get an idea from all this
as to what Germany and the Germans
describe victories in this war.
Add to this that they lost no ships and
we lost six. But we know that they did
lose ships. of their best: that those that
went back were much more battle SCARED
than ours which came back. The
'"triumphant'' Hun just chuckles because
he has met US and has not been annihi-
lated.
We indeed are not triumphant; we are
very unhappy because we were not able
to annihilate him as we had hoped to:
but be quite sure that II we had got at
him on a clear day. il We had sighted
him at 4 a. m. instead of at 4 d. M. on
that day. 1t would be a very small run