Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-05-09
BIC HUN LOSS IN
JUTLAND BATTLE
Own Official Report Gives 3,O76
Casualties and Many
Ships Wrecked.
Torpedo Crew PENNED IN
Cut OFF by Wreckage From Exit Till
Vessel Was in Dry Dock-CIearIy
Established Germans Had
Superior Force.

LondOn.-There Is no reason TO
doubt the substantial accuracy of the
German official account of the losses
suffered by the German fleet in the
Jutland naval battle May 81, 1915, 1t
is learned officially by Reuters. The
German figures published June 1e.
1916, showed that the casualties to the
fleets personnel We're: officers, Hkilled
or missing, 172; wounded, Al; sother
ratings, killed or missing, a,414:
wounded 449. Total, 3,O76.
Official details of damage done to
individual vessels follow:
Battleship Koenig, struck .aboat fif-
teen times and badly damaged. Ship
went down by the head until her fore
castle was only 61a feet above water.
The crew of the forward torpedo tube
was imprisoned until the ship was
placed in dry dock June 5. Four fires
were started on the ship and Admiral
Hehnke was wounded in the head. The
casualties were heavy.
flt Dy 70 smells.
Cruiser Seydlitz, hit by % shells
and one torpedo from British de-
stroyer. Her forecastle was riddled
and her fore turret was put out of ac-
tion. The entire crew of the turret
and magazine were killed with the ex-
ception of three or four men. The
ship was beached in a sinking .condi-
ton, but she was afterward refloated
and repaired. She suffered heavy cas-
ualties.
Battleship Grosser Kurfuerst, dam
aged by torpedo and four heavy
shells. Engines were damaged.
Battleship Oldenburg, hit by a shell
from destroyer which killed II and
wounded about dozen, mostly officers
on the bridge.
Battleship Ostfriesland, struck mine
which tore large hole in her starboard
side. She was assisted into port by
salvage vessels.
Battleship Schlesien, slightly dam
aged. -
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laRadly damaged that the repair work
necessary required several weeks.
Battle cruiser Luetzow, sustained
at least forty direct hits from British
gunfire, which did enormous damage,
and was also twice torpedoed.
400 Casualties on One Ship.
Her casualties are variously given
as being from 400 to nearly 600.
Battle cruiser Derflinger, so badly
damaged that she had to be recon-
structed.
Cruiser Moltke, hit by three large
shells and was under repairs until Au-
gust.
Cruiser Won der Tam, one turret
completely put out of action and an
other virtually useless.
Light cruiser Elbing so badly dam
aged that she was scuttled.
Light cruiser Rostock, after being
damaged by gunire, was blown up by
her crew to prevent capture.
Light cruiser Wiesbaden, reduced to
a complete wreck by gunfre and was
finally torpedoed. There was only one
survivor of her crew.
Light cruiser Frauenlob, set On fire
and wrecked by gunfire and was torpe-
decd and sunk. Only eight men Of
her crew survived.
Five destroyers are known to have
been sunk, while others had to be
towed into port.
A complete record Of the British
forces engaged in the battle shows "a
dreadnoughts, battle cruisers, Is
cruisers, IS light cruisers and rs de-
stroyers. The German force included
81 battleships, 16 cruisers, n destroy
ers. 1t is clearly established, however,
that of the ships which actually came
into action the preponderance of force
was held by the Germans.