New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
BEATTY CUT OFF ENEMY,
THEN WAS FORCED TO FLEE
Losses of Kaisers Fleet Called Colossal"
by German SurvivOrS-Westfalen
Sunk, Berlin Admits.
Bv ARTHUR S. DRAPER.
(By Cable to The Tribune. }

London June AT Germans have had their long
awaited der Tag"
But the great victory which Berlin began celebrate
erday as freeing the seas the Kaiser already has begun to
fade.
As the latest reports in from Admiral Jelcoc
and from neutral vessels which witnessed part of the great
battle in the North Sea- engagement shown to be in
sense the defeat the great disaster at first assumed
London though still the deepest gloom at least has had
partial relief
British naval experts maintain that Great Britain
nues hold the supremacy of the by safe margin and
that her enormous navy could better afford the losses suffered
than could the smaller German establishment
British and German Admiralty reports continue to deny
each of losses and accounts of the action
British ships sunk still number the yesterday-three
baecrusers three cruisers eight destroyer TIE Ger
losses continue to grudgngy admitted by ber-
batte-crusers, three cruisers and eight destroyers
The German losses continue to and now about
equal in number of ships though still much less in aggregate
tonnage.
The German War Office, in statement issued tonight
admits the loss of the light Ebing 1t is silent the
fate of the two deadnoughts the Kaiser class asserted by
the British to have been sunk.
Against a British Admiralty statement that only two
divisions took part the battle and that the Germans fled on
the approach of the Grand Fleet Berlin to-day reeaes its
assertion the main British forces engaged VceAd
mira Scheer commended with numerically inferior feet
fought the "entire modern English fleet"
Teutons Reported Trapped
All day rumors have been circulation that eight of the
German ships had been cut off by Admiral Beatty IN DANISH
waters The Admiralty refuses confirm deny these re-
ports and there growing hope that the British navy still
NAV be able to redeem the heavy balance in tonnage lost IN
Wednesdays battle Admiral Jecoe himself swept the sttne
of the battle without finding single German ship in evidence
Loss of Life Terrific.
Something Kipng the price OF Admiralty fe
to-day suffered the British ships become KNOWN
of the loss Of e unfortunately have not been cuS
down, but been added to.
the ships that sank but few hundred
rescued from the Queen Mary while
the lnvncbe Officers and crewncudinS
their with the Union Jack floating
over their heads.
land in this they do not begin
with the mortality To be warshp struck by
of by hef practically certain DEATH
modern warfare safety
details the Admiralty the full significance Of tho
greatest realized Both sides fought with
gaantry and asking and giving quarter
In the words Of Admiral Jeco his only that the misty
weather saved the punishment
Misty weather the ultimate result of the battle
which fought four phases The first between practically an
baeshps of the Ger
which previously had been hidden the mist coming the
the third the German High Seas
which had tho
MEANWHILE the fourth German destroyer attacks of which three
made after dark.
phases that Great Britain suffered the
the Germans withdrawing rapidly the arrival OK
Admiral Beatty's ships.
that a single lost in destroyer attacks
of the fighting the British fleet managed get be-
the German squadron and the Danish coast but
them the OF the hee