Arizona republican., 1919-05-10

ed by the treachery of the Greek gov ernment until King Constantine was expelled from the throne but the Hnn 1 battleships never but once dared a standup fight with their foes.
 The Jutland Battle
 This one great fleet action of the war was preceded by three sv-iff cruiser raids toward the English coast. The first, on November 2 1914 did little damage to Yarmouth. The second, on December 16. 1914. killed a large number of women and children at Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. The third was intercepted on January A, 1915, on the Dogger bank 1 by Sir David Beatty's cruiser souad- i ron. In that encounter the British 1 cruisers Lion and Tiger sank the Ger man batueship Bluecher and sent the Derfflinger home badly crippled.
 On the morning Of May 31, 1916. Sir John Jellicoe was between Scotland l and Denmark with the British grand l fleet. Sir David Beattys cruiser 1 squadron had completed it's sweep to | the south and was swinging northward. ! At 2:30 D. m. Beatty was signaled by i his light cruisers that the German fleet was out in force. It had appar- ently steamed north along the Danish i coast and, when sighted, was head l ing home again, with light cruisers leading.
 The choice was Beatty's either to en- 1 counter and try to detain the foe or to keep on his way to iom Jellicoe. He i followed NelsOn's rule: Engage the i enemy in sight" The ensuing battle l divides itself into three stages: (a) 1 Beattys advance until he found he 1 had the whole German heavy fleet be- 1 fore him; (b) Beatty's swing round in an effort to draw the Germans toward Jellicoe, during which Admiral Evan i Thomas came I'D with four battleships and took the first fire of Scheer's bat ! tleships; (c) the arrival of Jellicoe with Admiral Hoods battle cruiser 1 squadron in the van
 The concentration of the British {, squadron had been effected, and JelIi- COG behind Hood was bearing down on ! Scheer in overwhelming force. But it was then D. m. and night brought the North sea haze behind which and his own smoke screens Scheer turned and escaped with most of his vessels. The British fleet remained on the scene until the afternoon of June 1, picking up survivors. Not one German ship was in sight on a sea strewn with wreckage.
 They Never Came Out Again
 The Huns being near home, while the British were 400 miles from port :; got out the first story of the action, claiming "an enormous victory" Beat ty lost in fact, two battle cruisers, the Indefatigable and the queen Mary early in the action. Later the Invinci- ble. Admiral Hoods flagship, went down with her commander, whose con- duct was worthy of a family so re- nowned in naval annals. Some four or five German vessels of equal or great CT value were sunk. Just how greal the German losses were is yet to be ascertained
 Victories, however are tested by their results. With all the kaiser's claims to his people, he did not claim that the British blockade was ended
 It continued, and more stringent than ever And, strange to relate imme- diately after the engagement it became "inconYenient' to permit even the most patriotic Germans to gaze upor their victorious fleet For months afterward no civilian was permitted ir the great naval port of Wilhelmshaven And the German high seas fleet was never again seen outside the blight oi
 Heligoland
 Until the end of the war the German fleet remained in port, though as these lines are written it was reported tc
 have put to sea, but under the red
 flag of mutineers and revolutionists
 The feature historian must be left tC
 untangle the truth on the German side about the Jutland battle, which might be dismissed as drawn were it not for the hard fact that the German fleet never came out again to do battle witt any foe.
 The third great naval task of the
 war was dealing with the submarine l Its invention is contested between the l Englishman Day and the American Bushnell Day was drowned by his 1T 1774 and B-sanell made unsuccessful attacks with his upon British vessels during our war of independence. Hol- land. an American. first made it prac-
 tica1. To the Hun was reserved the
 distinction of making it the synonym for wanton murder .of the innocent For a thousand years at least, the German in every land, when he dares
 to boast of civilization" must expeci as Q blow in the face the word "Lusi-
 tania."
 Curbing the Submarine
 When the war began the submarine
 was improved as a war weapon. After it's first successes against the British cruisers already mentioned it had nom of moment save those which the com
 mon consent of mankind outside O i, "kultured' Germany has adjUdged pi
 raticaI. It warred with success onl!
 upon the weak and the defenseless
 Its assigned role in the Hun scheme o
 world conquest was to starve out Eng land. It failed and worse than failed. The Blockade and the Patrol No comparable success was agan
 achieved by the Hun U-boats agains war vessels. Some claimed were nor probably by drifting mines. with whicl Germany. in brazen disregard of he Hague pledges. sowed the seas at ever. opportunity The victories of our U boats" which German cities celebrated were almost wholly over defenseles merchant ships, such as the Lusitania ] They were, in fact, sheer murder o non-combatants.
 The shallow North sea is the viles water on earth in which to main
 tain Q speed required when sub marines must be reckoned witt The British destroyers did most of it for by agreement Britain was to keeI the northern seas, and France anC Italy the Mediterranean. In the las two years of the war they were aidet by the American destroyers. the higl character of whose work is certified h,