The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-06
WHEN The FLEETS met
IN BATTLE
Germans Used Mass Formation
With Submarines
in Swarms.

three days after the battle between
the British and German fleets in the
Skager Rak. A ihrong Of workman
on the wharves cheered their approach
The crews silently waved an acknow-
ledgment. The ships bridges were
gone. On one the forward gun was
missing, and one funnel was hanging
over the side, kept up by wire slaves.
Jagged rents in its port side exposed
its ribs and internal compartments.
The wounded were borne from the
vessel on cots. One smiling boy lay
for awhile or the wharf answering
questions which the crowd, eager for
news, aswed him. Looking at him
one never would have guessed that
his blanket covered only one whole
leg and the stump of another. But
it is from such survivors, and shippers
of neutral vessels which were near
the scene at the time, that story of
the greatest naval battle in history
has been pierced together from the
accounts in the London papers.
1t was a bright afternoon, shortly
after o'clock, when the firing began.
A short time previously Norwegian
skipper reports having seen a Zeppe-
lin scout turn about in its fight to-
ward the direction the British ships
came from, and make its way back to
the German fleet.
At range of six miles the battle
cruisers opened fire. At first there
were only scattered booms, the firing
becoming quicker as the cruisers near
ed each other. The British put on
full speed and approached the enemy
in a zigzagging course. A short,
spirited fight occurred and then the
light German ships fell back toward
the heavy dreadnoughts.
The huskier voiced guns of the
dreadnoughts Joined in the chorus
and the battle soon was 4 fury. All
the ships were splitting flames and
shells. Columns Of water sent up by !
shells which missed their marks
sprouted thirty and forty feet. Tim
bers crashed. Decks were swept
clean by the hail of steel and lead.
Torpedoes churned up he sea.
Smoke enveloped the ships. Men
who survived say they were stunned
by the detonatiou of the great guns.
Soon several ships were in flames,
later to be thrown into the air with an
appalling roar as their magazines
were reached. Smaller boats sank
like peas do when dropped into basin
of water. Above, Zeppelins lowered,
showering bombs upon the men on the
decks below Aviators in their sea-
planes battled in midair, the screech
of shells in their ears.
The Defense, a British battle ship,
came up and dashed toward the line
of battle. But as a sailor watched,
the big ship suddenly vanished in one
big burst of smoke and steam. When
this cleared there was no, sign of
and nothing to show that
there ever had been a ship there, save
the white foam of its wake which still
marked the water.
The German ships fought in mass /
formation. Five or six big vessels
turned their broadsides loose on one
enemy, and when it was disposed of
bent their attention to the next in
inc. In one of these attacks the Hin
ienburg was struck in quick success
sion by four torpedoes. The vessel
was literally torn to pieces. 1t keel
ID over until its tunnels were level
With the water and then sank
The Queen Mary was fighting a
German battle ship at close range
when a super-Zepplin began shower
ng bombs upon its deck The crew
yet the anti-aircraft guns to popping.
\ shot took effect and the Zepplin z
anne down in a blazing, roaring mass :
1t nearly the same moment a torpe- :
10 lifted the Queen Mary nearly out
f the water and It sank as though it
we're stone.
Five German destroyers attacked
he Invincible. One broadside from Z
he Invincible's guns and the five
oats disappeared utterly. The In
efatigable ran into hornets nest
f submarines. While maneuvering
nth these a roll of the sea caused it
0 lurch high, and it received
roadside below it's water line. Flames
burst from the hold, the
Magazine blew up with deafening
xplosion and the Indefatigable was