The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-01

The Hague Netherlands, Aug. L.
Scenes on board the German flagship
Lutzow during the Jutland naval bat
tie when some of the newest and larg-
est of the German battle cruisers were
battered or sunk by Admiral Beatty's
British squadron in June, 1916, are
wildly described by p. Krug, one OF
the Lutzow's survivors, in pamphlet
which has just been published here.
Tt is believed to he the first detailed
STORY of that great battle from the
point of view of the German sailor to
reach the public eye.
Toredoed by British warshipT early
in the engagement the Lutzow, which
was the flagship of Admiral Hyper,
was Hammered upmercifully by the
big guns of the British vessels, and
soon became a complete wreck, a
.ship of the dead as Krug describes
her.
According to his story II German
sailors were trapped in the Diesel dy-
namo room before the battle had been
long in progress and remained there
when the, Lutzow, a disabled hunk,
was abandoned and. sent to the bot
tom by a torpedo from a German de-
stroyer Two of these imprisoned men
had been driven insane and were kept
tied by their shipmates.
After describing the first part Of the
battle and telling how the arrival of
British bhttleships turned the tables
on the Germans .Krug writes:
Suddenly the entire ship is roughly
| shaken. The colossus heaves far over,
and everything that is not fixed is
upset The first direct hit! The tor
pedo pierces the fore part of the ship.
Its effects are terrible. Iron, wood,
metal, parts of bodies, smashed ship S
| implements are all intermixed, and
the electric light, by chance spared,
continues to shine upon this sight.
Two decks lower, in the Diesel dy-
namo room, there is still life. That
compartment has not been hit, and 21
men in the prime of life have been
spared, but the chamber is shut off
from all others, for the water is rush
| ng into all sections. They are doomed
to death. Several S8-centimeter shells
squarely hit their mark, working ter
rible havoc. The first hit the wireless
department. OF the II living men who
a moment ago were seated before the
apparatus there is nothing more te
be seen. Nothing is left but smoiz
ling heap of ruins. The second shot
again pierced the fore part of the
ship. The entire fore part of the yes
sci, as far as the Diesel motor room
was past saving.
Another broaldside meant for the
Lutzow fell short, but a torpedo boa
| close by disappeared, leaving only {
few odd pieces OF wood and a smashed
lifeboat drifting round. 1t is nov
half-past seven, and the hostile circle
grows even smaller. The Lutzow ant
the Seydlitz lie, with their bows deel
in the water; both are madly mauled
The fore part Of the Lutzow was II
, flames. Shells burst against the ship
side in rapid succession "A terrible
sight is presented on board the -Lut
, zow, and it needs iron nerves to lool
upon it cody Hundreds have los
their lives, while many have lain TO
hours in torture, and the fight is no
yet over. The bow is now crushed Il
and is entirely submerged. The fou
, screws are already sticking half on
of the water, SO that the Lutzow ca;
only make eight to 10 knots an houl
> as against the normal 80.
1 "The admiral decides to transfer t