Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-06-09
LONDON CLAIMS
IS GERMAN SHIPS
WERE DESTROYED
Claims Berlin Reports of Battle
Are False.
REAR ADMIRAL HOOD is DEAD
Second In Command to Beatty Went
Down With His Vessei-Four
Thousand Britons Lost In
North Sea Fight.
REAR ADMIRAL HOOD is DEAD

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 relatively to the strength
of the two fleets but absolutely" 1t is
disclosed the Germans lost IL war
ships.
There is the strongest ground for
believing, the statement adds, that the
German losses include two German
battleships, two dreadnaught battle
cruisers of the most powerful type and
two of the latest light cruisers, In adj
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 battleshfp 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 the loss of the Westfalen.
The off cial list of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly a
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, Invinci-
bic, Fortune, Ardent and Shark. None
was saved from the Indefatigable, De-
Tense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Tur-
bulent, 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 1t, with
"impudent fabrications." Otherwise,
said Lord Beresford, no fault can be
found with the admiralty.
Edinburgh, 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 Alderman battleship and while
her great guns were busy with the
more powerful and better protected
German ship, one of the kaiser's SUI
per-Zeppelins was lowering over her,
showering her with bombs in an at
tempt 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.
- AT the same time the Queen Mary
received two terrific broadsides. A
shot belched which reached her maya
zine. There was a 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.
No German naval units were lost
except those mentioned in the official
communique,' says the official state
ment.
The communication adds that no
Zeppelin was lost during the battle.