The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-11-26
fleet IS YIELDED
BY GERMANS AT SEA
SILENCE is KEPT BY VICTORS
AS CREWS ARE TAKEN FROM
VESSELS OFF COAST.
GREAT NAVAL CAPITULATION
IS MOST IMPRESsy'E SIGHT

Strict Precautions-Lifet Dom
ned by All as Germans A zach.
LONDON.-The pride and of
Germany's surface feet, ID ,els,
from the colossal dreadnoughtS M
pIeted only two years ago, he
smallest modern destroyer, have n
surrendered to the allied navy iii the
waters of the North sea, in compli-
ance with the terms of the armistice
signed by German naval authorities.
The surrender was the greatest the
world has ever seen.
The Germans sailed right into the
open arms of the British, American
and French feet with guns trained
fore and aft, but without any am
munition in them. The men-of-war
were decked out with German flags,
but there was no fight left in them
Every battle flag on the allied fleet
was flying and each man was at his
battle station.
The transfer of the ships was car
ried out without noise or confusion.
The allied fleet, commanded by Ad-
miral Sir David Beatty, of the Brit
ish grand fleet, was composed al
most entirely of British ships with
the American sixth battleship squad
ron and French ship.
Destroyers Left Early.
The feet sailed from the Firth
of Forth at o'clock this morning for
the rendezvous. The destroyers de-
parted last night, moving out by the
score. The fleet then departed. 1t
steamed northward and then turned
east in double column miles apart
The northern column flew red bur
gees, the southern column flew blue
Leading the fleet was the British
ship Cardiff. The American battle
ship squadron had the fifth place in
the northern line. 1t consisted of the
New York, the Texas, Arkansas, Wy
oming and Florida. 1t followed in
the wake of the famous fifth British
battleship squadron, composed of
Barham, Malay, Valiant and War
spite, which took part in the famous
battle of Jutland.
SVOI a UlS3 gray SLiOhlIIS snip
came up from the east through the
haze, and it turned out to be the
leading battleship of the surrendering
feet.
1t bore the flag of Rear Admiral
Won Reuter-, commander of the whole
German force. In a long column the
German vessels passed between the
two lines of allied ships
In the German feet were the Fred
erick the Great, the King Albert,
Kaiser Crown Prince William. Kais-
erin, Bavorn, Margraf, Prince Regent
LuitpOld and the Grosser Kurfuerst
in the first detachment. They looked
docile enough, although they seemed
to be hugging each other closely.
Then came the battle cruisers
Seydlitz, flying the broad pennant of
Commodore Tagert, Won der Tam,
Moltke, Hindenburg and the Derfin-
ger.
Vessels 700 Feet Long.
These last two ships were great
vessels, nearly 700 feet long. With
the smoke pouring from their huge
tunnels, they looked as formidable as
anything in the allied fleet. A mile
back of the battle cruiser squadron
came a light cruiser, Karlruhe, fly
ing the pennant of Commodore Har-
den; the Frankfort, Emden. Nurn-
burg, Drummer, Coin and Bremen.
Practically all of the light cruisers
appeared to be new ships.
No sound greeted the Germans as
they came up. When all Of the Ger
man ships were within the double line
the squadrons turned into designated
positions and escorted the Germans
INTO the Firth of Forth, where they
were informed. /
Surrender of U-Boats. i
The following account of the sur
render of the first batch of twenty
herman submarines to Rear Admiral
Neglnal W. Tyrwhitt, which was ac-
compllshed this morning thirty miles |
on Harwich, is given by an eye-wit-
After steaming some twenty miles
across the North sea the Harwich |
jorces, five light cruisers and twenty !,
uIeStroyers, were sighted. The flag |
snip of Admiral Tyrwhitt, the COM
mander, was the Curacao. High |
ABOVE the squadron hung big obser-
Vation balloon.
=, The squadron, headed by the flag
snip, then steamed toward the Dutch
coast The picture was a noble one
as the great vessels, with the moon
sun shining, ploughed along to take
part IN the surrender of the U-boats.
soon after the British squadron |
started the 'paravanes" were dropped
GSYyerboard. These devices are shoped
IKE tops and divert any mines which I
may be encountered, for the vessels
we're now entering mine field
Lifebelts Donned.
Almost everyone on board donned
d ll1eoelt and just as the red sun APP
PTeared above the horizon the first |
German submarine appeared in sight. /
soon after seven o'clock twenty
ro.'. were seen in line accom-
RTS;iLlled by two German destroyers, the
, lioanla and the Sierra Ventana,
"nlch were to take the submarine
t Srews back to Germany after the
All the submarines x,,ayo -, AZ, e,,X.