The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-06-08
fourteen British, Nine German Ships
Admitted TO Have Been Sunk.
GREATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY
AlI-Night Engagement in North Sea
Greatly Aided by zeppeIins-
Casualties Reported High.

London - Picking Its way from Its
base in the Kiel Canal, the German
high-sea fleet Wednesday afternoon
emerged into the North Sea, and, off
the coast of Jutland, engaged British
feet throughout the afternoon and
night in what probably was the great
est naval battle in the worlds history
30 far as tonnage engaged and tonnage
destroyed was concerned.
When the battle ended Great Britain
had lost the battle cruisers Queen
Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible,
the cruisers Defence, Black Prince and
Warrior and eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers.
The German battleship Pommern
was sent to the bottom by a torpedo
and the cruiser Wiesbaden sunk by the
British gunfire. In addition several
German torpedo craft are missing and
the small cruiser Frauenlob was seen
badly listing and was believed to have
gone to the bottom.
These losses have all been admitted
by Great Britain and Germany.
Aside from Great Britain's conceded
losses, Germany says that the British
battleship Warsprite, sister ship of
the Queen Elizabeth, and one of the
largest and most powerful ships afioat,
had been sunk; that the battleship
Marlborough, vessel of rs, 900 tons,
had been hit by a torpedo, and sub
marine had been destroyed.
Great Britain also added to Ger
many's acknowledged losses with the
claim that one dreadnaught of the Ger
nina Kaiser class-vessels of "a, 700
tons and carrying a complement of
1888 men-had been attacked and de-
stroyed by British torpedo craft; that
another battleship of the same class
was believed to have been sunk by
| gunfre; that one battle cruiser had
been blown up and two others damaged
and that six destroyers and a subma-
rine also had been sent to the bottom.
Great Britain's admitted loss in ton.
mage was la, $40 for six battle cruis-
ers and cruisers. That of Germany
excluding the tonnage of the Wiesba
den, of which vessel there is no rec
ord, was Is, 172.
That the casualties in the fighting
off Jutland were heavy is indicated by
the fact that of the crew of some 900
on board the interchangeable only tive
men are known to have been saved.
Six Zeppelins participated in thu
naval engagement, according to dis
patch from Copenhagen to the Dali,
Mail. One of the dirigibles, the LIZA
was hit several times and badly dam
aged, the report says, but she was abb
to reach the Schleswig coast. Severa
of her men were wounded, and all o
her supplies had to be thrown over
board.
The scene of the battle was in tn
Eastern waters of the North Sea.
is probable that the German fleet wa
on one of the excursions into the Nortl
+ Sea, which it has taken from time t
time during the war, and met, whethe
or not by design, with the Britisl
fleet.
) Skager-Rak is an arm of the Nortl
Sea between Norway and Denmark
The point referred to in the officia
> German statement as Horn Riff prob
ably is the reef off the Horn, on tn
southwestern extremity of Denmar
? This would indicate that the battl
was fought off the coast of Denmark
From the reef to Helgoland, the mai
German naval base in the North Sea
: is about 100 miles.
A dispatch from Copenhagen dc
: clares it is generally stated in Berli
I that the activity of the German flee
/ was due to the energetic demands G
Emperor William to his brother, Ac
miral Prince Henry of Prussia, con
mander-in-chief of the navy, and Az
- miral Won Capelle, minister of tn
navy, on the emperor's visit last wee
to Wilhelmshaven.