The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-28
GERMAN NAVY sURRENDERS
The Grand Fleet is Now in the
Hands of the Allies


n Edinburgh, Thursday, Nov. 81 Is p,
m.).--Germany as naval power
ceased to exist today. The heart of
her mighty fleet--fourteen ships of
the line, seven light cruisers and fif-
ty destroyers-surren to an
armada of British, American and
French vessels, the greatest fighting
force that ever stood out to sea-
II The minutely detailed program Of
n submission Aaid down by the COM
mander of the. British fleet was car
ried- out strictly according to plan.
| The German rwarships. strung out in
a single Column. almost twenty miles
/ long, appeared at, the rendezvous at
the appointed time and were led in
to the Firth of Forth between twin
columns OF Allied ships, which over
Tapped the Germans at each end.
Tonight the enemy craft are
anchored i'll the firth, under guard, as
i prisoners.
A surrender OH such gigantic
scale has no precedent in naval his
tory. Although the wonderful naval
spectacle was the same as a peace
| time review and evoked little enthus-
iasm, the haze blotting out. the hori-
zon, American and British officers
could scarcely credit the evidence of
! their eyes. 1t was all event which
shattered all naval traditions and
ideals.
Men animated by the spirit OF
| Lawrencc's Don't give UP the ship
and Nelson's England expects every
| man to do his duty could not con-
ceive OF such an inglorious fate as
that to which the enemy sea force
was submitting. The Associated
Press correspondent, standing on the
deck of an American dreadnought,
heard an officer exciainl, Even the
poor old Spaniard, knowing he had
not q change, came out OF Santiago"
But for the most part, both officers
and men were silent; They realized
they were witnessing the climacteric.
act of Germany's dowhfal1. They
knew that the surrender 0f those ves-
sells forever gave the United States
second position among the worlds
naval powers, but they showed no
elation and seemed to feel sort Of
contemptuous pity for the fallen |
giant OF the, sea, who had refused to
fight. d. Their imaginations dwelt on
the foes shame
The German ships were sighted by
the Allied columns at 9:2o o'clock
docilely following their British pilot,
the light cruiser Cardiff, which with
destroyers and other small craft had
ahead of the Allied fleet.
The enemy studiously complied with
Beatty's orders, and it was
we'll for their own sakes that they
did. Every vessel steaning out to
meet them flew battle ensighs and |;
was ready for instant action with its {
men at battle stations and guns in
position for the prompt annihilation {
IF the enemy's forces if their mis- t
sion proved to be other than peace I
:ul {
Five American battle ships, the
New York, Texas, Arkansas, Wyom- +
ng and Florida, were prepared to +
ire every gun in forty seconds after
he signal was given by Rear Ad-
niral Rodman, who said to the cor
before sailing: There is
lot the slightest probability of any Il
rouble but we are overlooking no
hances against making the windup S
# this show a big success" II,
The main Allied fleet. extending v
'ver a line fourteen miles long in II
he Firth of Forth, began to weigh 9
nchor at o'clock this morning. La
The Scotch mist which for days had F
bscured the harbor was swept away |,
y a stiff breeze, and the moon shone I
rilliantly. The ships quickly took a
heir stations in the long double. line |,
hey held throughout the day Brit d
III battle cruisers led the way, fol- /"
owed by dreadnoughts. Admiral h
'eatty's flagship, the Queen Eliz- v
beth, led the squadron in, the north
IN column. The American war
hips fell into line behind Admiral =
eatty's craft, balancing 4 British
luadron similar in power in the op-
osite file. lip
Six miles separated the Allied col v,
mns and squarely between them a,
lie Cardiff brought her charges, all ki
canning at the stipulated speed of vi
n knots. As ordered. their guns tn
ere in regular fore-and-aft positions ar
I'd as far as powerful glasses could
:termine, there was no sign to pro- F,
Ike suspicion. Until all the major r.
lips had been swallowed up in the
Allied columns, the latter
:ver for q moment relaxed their
ert watch. Over the Germans Cir
ed British dirigible, which acted n
eyes for the Allied ships, which, ~
though the fog had lifted, were still
o distant for accurate observation.
The names of the battle ships, bat D,
cruisers and light cruisers which of
We been surrendered to the Allies mi
We not been announced officially. M
DNever, . telegram received in so
from Berlin Sunday gave tn
is list: vie
Battle Ships-Kaiser, 24,Ir3 tons; it
Iiseriu, a4,rI3 tons; Koenig Al Ity:
4 aAl13 tons; Kron Prinz WIZ
=, 3S,noo tons; Prinzeregent Luit- en-
r 46,ft3 tons; Markgraf. 2S,3os thu
III Gfoaper Kurfuerst 3s,zo3 tons; ne
loSn, 1900 tons; Koenig, 2S,2o3 Cir
md Friedrich der Crosse, a. he
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