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Show JELLICOE'S REPORT. 1 Through the enterprise of the Iutor- national News Service The Tribune has been ablo to present to its readers the complete report of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe on the naval hattle off the coast of 'Jutland. Although the language is thnt oi an official rcport, it thrills' in the reading, for the events themselves are among the grandest and most heroic in the annals of war upon the seas. Admiral Jellicoe unreservedly indorses in-dorses the action of Admiral Beatty in sacrificing his battle cruisers in order to bring about the battle. It is patent that the battle cruisers made a wonderful wonder-ful fight and that only one squadron met with great misfortune. Admiral Jellicoe surmises that Rear Admiral Hood, when he took his ships to close quarters with the enemy, was not aware that the German battleships had come up. No explanation is made to account for Hood's lack of information, but it probably was due to the terrific turmoil tur-moil of the battle and was one of those unavoidable circumstances that work for weal or woe in an engagement, whether by land or sea. The report gives the impression that a number of German warships were se-ripusly se-ripusly and perhaps fatally damaged in addition to those that foundered. Admiral Ad-miral Jellicoe states that one after another an-other German ships drew - out of the battle line and made off while the fighting still was in progress. On the other hand, late in the evening, while the battleships were still exchanging shots at long range, Admiral Jellicoe drew off slightly to the north and allowed al-lowed his destroyer squadrons to deliver de-liver the only attacks made during the remainder of the night. Undoubtedly this was the maneuver which the Germans have cited as a British retreat, but inasmuch as the battle continued and the English destroyers de-stroyers sent home several torpedoes with deadly effect, it cannot be assumed as-sumed that the maneuver was incorrect. At all events, when morning came, no German ships were to be seen in the immediate vicinity, and it is known that they sailed directly for their bases while f the English ships scoured the sea for a few hours before making for the English En-glish coast. From the earlier reports of the battle bat-tle the impression was conveyed that the English battle cruisers met with disaster soon after the action began. The extracts cited from Admiral Beatty Beat-ty 's report, however, show that the first vessels sunk were two German destroyers de-stroyers in an action between the smaller ships. All afternoon the fight between the heavy cruisers continued, and it was not until the German battleships bat-tleships arrived that Hood's boats f-ere sunk. Admiral Beatty, as soon as he obtained ob-tained accurate information concerning concern-ing t ho German fleet by means of a hydro-aeroplane which h? sent aloft, sailed south-southeast, so as to get between be-tween the enemy and his base. Meantime Mean-time some of his ships sailed south and southwest, thus containing the German fleet aiid making a battle inevitable. AftPr several hours' of fighting Admiral Beatty, who had learned that the enemy battleships were approaching, turned to the northward and continued on that course for an hour or more. The cor-Wetness cor-Wetness of this move is incontestable, for Beatty thus brought the English bat tie -hips, which were to the northward, north-ward, into tho action before the sun set. It appears, however, that Rear Admiral Hood was to the south westward anil did not withdraw. The consequence conse-quence was that his lightly-armored battle i ni isr rs were torn to pieces hy the German battleships anil sunk or se-riouslv se-riouslv damaged. Nevertheless several of the English battleship squadrons not all of them were able to engage in the battle, and hegan to work immense im-mense havoc among the enemy. The Marlborough, a dreadnought battleship, bat-tleship, took a remarkable part in the bat t le. After she had pummeled the foe's ships for some minutes she was struck by a torpedo. She was out of . the action only twenty minutes and then resumed tiring. Fourteen terrific salvos were directed against a big Herman Her-man ship, which was forced to quit the line and flee. It is clear that the Marlborough Marl-borough earned her salt, so to speak, in the Jutland battle. It 'is i:.-:"h-.s to make any new coin-tiarisous coin-tiarisous of losui in urdur to ucLcriniuo which side won the victory. Some light, however, can be shed upon the question by quoting Admiral Hautc-fcuillc Hautc-fcuillc of the French navy, who presents pre-sents his views in the Paris Homme Enchaine. ITo says: I am astonished that -journalists allow themselves to be hypnotized by the heaviness of British losses and have failed to understand tho fullness of the British naval victory. vic-tory. It is one of tho greatest victories, vic-tories, owing to the results arising from it. The Germans had two objects, both of the same nature a fleet of the line as strong as possible which could advantageously present its flank to tho large British patrols, anil an exit from German ports in order to permit the escape of two rapid forces intended to act at a distance. The first consisted of two very powerful cruisers, escorted escort-ed by some ten ships of less size and a strong body of destroyers. The second force consisted only of two ships, the 'Wiesbaden and the Elbing. The first force was -to go north, and evidently was to destroy certain ships which supply Kussia with food by way of Archangel and Kola and bring back grain for England and France, and also was to destroy Kola and the establishment of the' port of Archangel, which are of wood. ( 1 The second group is only composed com-posed of two vessels, but two vessels ves-sels launched since the beginning of the war, constructed for the destruction de-struction of commerce in distant seas, vessels with high speed enabling enab-ling them to fly from warships, with a wide radius of action at economical eco-nomical speed that permits them to avoid frequent coaling. Suppose these two vessels appearing in the South Atlantic and the Pacific. For many months they would be masters of the ocean and their success suc-cess would be greater than that of the Alabama and the Emden. Sir David Beatty sacrificed himself. him-self. Although outnumbered, ho gave battle to prevent the passage of these German expeditionary forces and to give Admiral Jellicoe time to come to his assistance. The cruisers which should have destroyed de-stroyed the Russians were obliged to take refuge in a damaged condition condi-tion in German and Danish ports. As regards the Wiesbaden and the Elbing, which were sunk, their career ca-reer was short. Is it not, then, an immense victory vic-tory to have maintained the freedom free-dom of distant oceans and to have assured the continuation of summer communications with Russia? And if the results are considered, is this not an admirable victory? |