Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-05
British Figures Of Eighteen
Vessels Sunk Accepted
as Correct.
TEUTON NAVY SAID
TO BE CRIPPLED
British No Longer Fear Effort to Run
Blockade and Attack coast-Two Of
German Ships Sunk Identified az
Hindsnbura and Lutzow-6srIin Re-
ports Continue to Claim Victory But
Give No linking Of Losses.

Est report Of the admiralty on the naval
battle Of last week, the press and pub
lic are devoting their attention to COM
putting the losses Of the two navies and
the effect it is likely to have on future
naval warfare.
The British estimate Of eighteen
German ships lost is now generally &C
cepted and the battle is regarded as q
British victory.
It is pointed out that the Germans
did not admit the loss Of the cruiser
Elbing until the arrival of some sur
vivors of her in Holland. and this is
cited as confirmation that the Germans
concealed their losses until forced by
circumstances to reveal them.
This was made possible, it was ar
gued, by the fact that the British losses
occurred in daylight and are known to
the Germans, while the German losses
occurred at twilight or after dark.
German Navy Crippled.
II these estimates prove correct naval
writer's declare it will be many day
before the German battle feet again ap-
pears in tho North Sea. After the
Dogger Bank battle. the Derfhinger
and Moltke were five months In dock
and 1t is believed that the German
ships of this class engaged In last
weeks battle were even more severely
damaged.
The Derfiiinger and her sister ship
the Lut1ow, are believed to be thf
battle cruisers which the British HAYS
Included In the list OF supposed Ger
man losses, while another battle cru1s.
er, the Seydlitz. - reported from :
neutral source to have been seen on
Thursday morning. badly damaged and
being pursued by British warships.
Ends German Hopes.
The battle, it is also suggested, puts
an end to German ambition to force a
way thru the British blockade to raid
allied shipping in the Atlantic.
Another advantage claimed from the
outcome of the battle is that 1t relieves
the pressure upon the Russian army
wing in Courland, to which the German
aeet was giving valuable support. II
Is already reported from Copenhagen
that German cruisers have been with
drawn from the Courland coast, while
German destroyers have not been seen
tor a week In the southern Baltic.
Two German Ships Identified.
British officers of the fleet which par
ticipated in the Jutland battle have
Identified two big German warships
sunk as the Hindenburg and the
Lutzow.
The Lutzow, battle cruiser of 26,00C
tons, was completed in 1915. She was
81 ivonl fUo 81
and twelve 24-pounder guns and equip
ped with five torpedo tubes. Her ar
NOR belt was about 13 inches in thick
ness amidships. She was 689 feet long
She was OF the latest battle cruiser
type. The Hindenburg Is not listed
1t has been reported that she was one
of the most powerful battle ships Of
the latter type, launched in 1915.
Heavy Loss Of British Officers.
A total Of 333 officers were killed in
the Jutland battle, according to list
issued by the admiralty today. Thit
list shows that practically all the of.
flcers of the cruisers Queen Mary, In
vincible, Indefatigable, Defense and
black Prince and from the destroyers
Tipperary, Turbulent, Fortune, Ardent
Nomad, Nestor and Shark perished. AL
the officers except one from the cruiser
Sparrow Hawk. On the other ships
twenty-three officers were killed and
twenty-five wounded.
4 Say Eightesn German Ships Were Lost
The British admiralty Sunday nigh
issued statement saying there wa.
the strongest grounds for the belle
that the British navy in the battle
with the Germans off Jutland las
week had accounted for a total o.
eighteen German men of war, and tina
there was nothing to add to or sub
Of the British losses.
The statement gave the German
losses as two battleships,s two dread
nought battle cruisers, four ligh
cruisers, nine torpedo boat destroyer.
and submarine.
Pessimism 10 lessened.
The pesslmism which prevailed a!
result Of the admiraltys origina
statement of losses, which now Is con.
sidered to have been needlessly candle
and conservative in Understanding
the extent of the German losses COM
pared with those Of Great Britain, ha!
been greatly lessened by the lates
statement.
A dispatch from Copenhagen say.
rumors are current in Hamburg tina
two additional German warships be
sides those announced in the German
communication--the battleship West
fallen and the battle cruiser Lutzov
were sunk In the battle. "A wireless
s dispatch received here Saturday from
Berlin said the German admiralty ad'
mitted the loss OF the Westfalen.
German Ships Not Named.
The admiralty statement last nigh
declares that the German losses IN th,
figiit were not only relatively but ah.