Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-05
BRITISH DECLARE
GERMAN LOSSES
ARE The LARGER
ates That Claims Of Berlin to
Victory in North Sea Fight
Are False.
EVIDENCE STILL INCOMPLETE
Admiralty Says Two Teuton Dread
naughts and Two Battle
ships Lost
MANY SMALLER CRAFT SUNK

London, June A statement is
sued tonight by the British admiralty,
confirming previous accounts of the
battle between the British and Ger
man fleets, reiterates that the Ger
man accounts of the German losses
are false, and that although the evil
dence is still incomplete, enough is
known TO justify stating that the Ger
man losses were greater than the
British, mot merely relatively to the
strength of the two fleets, but abso-
lutely."
There is the strongest ground for
believing the statement says that the
German losses include two battle
ships, two dreadnaught battle cruisers
Of the most powerful type and two OF
the latest light cruisers, in addition to
smaller CRATE, including a submarine.
London, June 3.-There is no great
disparity in losses as it first appeared
in the British and German reports, ac-
cording to British admiralty officers,
who claim that latest admiralty re-
ports show that two German battle
cruisers went down, while London
announces the receipt Of a wireless
dispatch from Berlin carrying an adj
mission from the German admiralty
that another German battleship, in adj
dition to the Pommern, was sunk.
Berlin has issued no further state
ment ofNGerman losses, which initi-
ally were given as one battleship,
two light cruisers and several de-
stroyers.
Estimate of Losses.
Revised British reports give ths
losses as follows
British: Three battle cruisers
Queen Mary, Indefatigabe and In
vincible); three armored cruisers (De-
fence, Black Prince and WARRIOR;
about dozen destroyers and one
submarine.
Germany: Two battleships West
fallen and Pommern); two battle
cruisers unnamedl; four light
cruisers (including the Wiesbaden,
Elbing and Frauenlob); six destroyers
and a submarine.
The British admiralty in addition
has admitted that the battleship Marl-
borough was struck by torpedo, but
declared she was towed safely into
port 1t denies the German claim that
the dreadnaught Warspite was sunk,
although conceding that she was dam
aged by gunfire.
Germans Elated.
The Germans are greatly elated at
the outcome of the engagement in
which their main fleet under Admiral
Scheer met the British, whose main
fleet, they assert, also was engaged.
That the Germans held the field after
the battle is shown, they declare, by
the fact that the Germans picked up
survivors Of British warships that
went down.
London officially denies that the
grand fleet was in the action. The
battle cruiser squadron which is re-
ported to have-rushed between the
Germans and their base, seems to have
borne the brunt of the fight. Eleven
British battleships eventually went
into the battle, it is admitted, but of
these several are declared to have
been only partly engaged,
The British losses in officers were
extremely heavy, the list including
Rear Admiral Hood, who went down
/ with his Uaoshin the Invinrihte. an
tain Sowerby OF the Indefatigable;
Captain Cay OF the lnviueible, and
Captain Prowse of the Queen Mary.
The total British losses are estimated
IAt about 5000.