The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-03-01
TIGER, SUPPOSED SUNK,
STANDS in LINE
Dented ArmOr is Memento Of Shot from
Blucher; Light Graft Cruise Seaward;
Sailors on Board are
Kept Busy
BY WILBUR S. FORREST.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent !

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH BATTLE
CRUISER SQUADRON, somewhere in
the North sea, Feb. 18.x(By Mail.)-
Standing placidly at anchor, but in
formidable array, the British navy's
fighting veterans" OF the battles OF
Heligoland Light and Doggerbank were
still waiting for the Germans to come
out today.
Great. long grey warships, their
engines ready to turn the propellers
and light greyhoundish scout cruisers
and swarms of diminutive black de-
stroyers and torpedo boats, all fully
manned and ready for action, appeared
anxious and willing today to be off
in chase Of battle.
by courtesy of the British admiralty
! was able to see at close range the
real reason why there has been no
naval warfare in the North sea since
January a. 1915, when the German
Blucher was sunk and the Derrflinger.
Moltke and Seidlitz were forced to run
to cover in the German minefields.
Since that time the German fleet has
remained at home
Preparedness personified in ships
and men, the British squadron is ready
to remain thus for years, if necessary.
according to the officers and men with
whom | talked.
Well ahead in the battle line is the
Tiger, 700 feet of the same fighting
cat that showed her teeth to. the Blu
cher in the Doggerbank action. A
dented armor plate just above the wa
terline, mark OF final shot from the
Blucher, is a lasting memento still
carried by the Tiger. The shell was
from one of the Teuton's IL inch guns,
Tigers officers declare. 1t failed to
penetrate the nine inch belt of Krupp
armor, while the Tigers 1917 inch guns
were perforating the equally "krupp-
armored" German battle cruiser.
Berlin still believes that the Tiger
was sunk in this action. A possible
forecast of future German naval wa
fare in the North sea and an exrlana
ton of why the German belief is firm
that the Tiger went down was given
by one Of the Tigers officers. When
the Blucher turned her massive hull
to view, Zeppelin appeared 10000
feet above and dropped bombs In the
vicinity of the boats of the British
fleet busy picking up the Butchers
survivors.
Observers on the air ship saw the
Blucher's death struggle and assumed
that it was the Tiger. The word was
carried back to Berlin and officially
announced to the world before Ger
many saw fit to announce that the
Blucher was sunk. IT was the same
old Tiger. however. which the writer
inspected from stem to stern today,
and seeing is believing.
Not far astern the Tiger stood the
other member of the battle squadron's
eat family. 1t was tho Lion. bristling
with guns, big and small. primed and
ready for any emergency. Nearby lay
the New Zealand, a gift to the navy
from New Zealand in 1910, and which
made a record trip around the world
inst before the war. The Princess
Roval. 700 trim feet of fighting ship.
also was nearby, keeping silent COM
panv with the other fleet units, the
identities Of which must remain AdS
miralty secrets.
The battle cruiser squadron is wait
inc for something out Of the air which
will set dozens of engines racing to-
ward the open sea and cause hundreds
Of officers, gunners and stokers and
Of seamen to jump to their
battle statt S. Less than ten minutes
after the prepare for action" comes
from the flagship the leading scout
cruiser viii be tearing out to sea. Close
behind, few moments later, will
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