The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-10
GERMANS DEFEAT
ABRITlSTH FLEET
More Than IA Vessels Sunk
in Greatest Naval Battle
in History.
LOSSES HEAVY ON BOTH SIDES
London Admits Loss of Vessels with
Total Tonnage of 114,s1o-Zep-
peIins Aided Germans.

peIins Aided Germans.
London, June 3.-Great Britain and
Germany have met again in battle at
sea and Germany apparently, so far
as the details have been made known,
was the victor. At the bottom OF the
North Sea, of the west coast of South
ern Denmark, lie at least three British
battle cruisers, three cruisers and
eight torpedo boats and the German
battleship Pommern and two small
German cruisers and number of Ger
man torpedo craft.
Great Britain admits the loss Of bat
tie cruisers and cruisers with a ton
mage of 114,810-represented by the
battle cruisers Queen Mary, Indefatig-
able and Invincible and the cruisers
Defence, Black Prince and Warrior.
Germany's losses, in addition to the
Pommern, were the Wiesbaden and
Fraunlob, both the latter small cruis-
ers, and several torpedo boats.
The Warspite Sunk?
The Germans claim in addition to
the admitted losses of Great Britain
that the British warship Warspite, of
the largest type in the British navy
was sunk, that the battleship MARI
borough was hit by a torpedo and that
two cruisers of the Achilles type (the
Warrior is of this cIass) and one sub
marine were sent to the bottom.
The British admiralty adds to the
conceded losses by, Germany, two
dreadnaughts of the Kaiser class
vessels of 24,70O destroyed, the
blowing up of one battle cruiser, the
damage of two other vessels of this
class and the ramming and sinking of
a German submarine.
Picking it's way from it's base in the
Kiel canal, the German high sea fleet
on Wednesday afternoon emerged into
the North Sea off the coast of Jutland
and engaged the British fleet through
out the afternoon and night in what
probably was the greatest naval battle
in the worlds history so far as ton
mage engaged and tonnage destroyed
is concerned.
Casualties Are Heavy.
Great Britain's admitted loss in ton
mage was ia, 80 for six battle cruis-
ers and cruisers. That of Germany,
not including the tonnage of the Wies-
baden, of which vessel there is no
record, was 1912.
The tonnage of the capital ships
sunk by the Japanese in their fight
with the Russians in the battle of
Isushima, in May, 1905, aggregated
$4,000. Twenty-one Russian craft
were destroyed in this fight, including
six battleships and four cruisers. The
remainder of the sunken craft COM
prised coast defense and special serv.
ice vessels and torpedo boats.
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 two
men are known to have been saved.
Full details of the fight, in which Yep
pelins are declared to have taken part,
are being gathered by the British adj
miralty and. pending their receipt, the
censor is Withholding permission to
correspondents to send out stories
from London.
Battle Lasted Twelve Hours.
From the German account it ap-
pears that the battle lasted more than
twelve hours. 1t extended, one is in
clined to believe here, from the area
around Helgoland all the way up to
the Skagerak, the North Sea arm be-
tween Norway and Denmark
The German fleet, it is assumed,
came from its base at Kiel through
the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, putting
into the sea from BrunnsbuetteI, the
North Sea outlet of that waterway
Not many miles to the north lies the
Isle of Sylt, the base of the German
seaplanes and possibly of Zeppelins.
1t was here that an engagement was
fought between British and German
cruisers and torpedo craft two months
ago, as the result of a British raid on
the hangers.
ZeppeIins in it, Too.
There are also evidences of Zeppe-
Inns having served the Germans as the
"eyes of the fleet a service for which
they proved we'll qualified during the
last cruiser attack on Lowestoft A
Copenhagen dispatch yesterday re-
ported that a Zeppelin had been sight
ed over the Danish island of Fanoe in
a damaged condition, flying over Den
mark in the direction of Schleswig.
That submarines played an import
ant part perhaps on the German side
the most important, in the North Sea
fight was generally believed here to-
night
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