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Show fffFEEIl i,pt.in Persiu. Naval Crit-.. Crit-.. of Berliner Tageblatt, Review Operations From . Teuton Viewpoint. . p Vs. th avl -ontw of the ''j'.iju, has wntteu the ioi-::S'wvie ioi-::S'wvie of v operations Jut--."VwoaJ vfW of the war, from viewpoint, for tho Asso- !ed Ukelv that the second V the "0U'J nJ wilhout a - 'fAt'of the Srst magnitude, but K "Vbrcuiht a gratifying proof that ' Mrlfships were not built iu S'.- i Ht our fleet, despite seem- C-iM itself for Wow against ! ?.:.i, a power in the world. C;? "ioar the question asked to 5-if V? t-e real victor in tho &rM .j', --it A comparison 01 the r I . re-.o:ts ot the German ad- (, kir; rt. Ai,miral jeuiece's '..''i rK"orts, which eontaiu only ,:-i''a- lves no doubt that tho 'i.-a'ef.iial account gives a thor-.' thor-.' ht'ul description 01 the bat- - J--r-e" i-n,.'i"h version, with us r:...e cf 'sets, labors in vain to Vs urerobabilitv. ":-VV,tever the final judgment is .of ; -y- in detail the loss ot British JL--1 it sea and the pronounced sue-'" sue-'" E'-rVr fieet remain indisputable if British losses in men and T-f counted. The waves ot tue fa swallowed 6104 British se-""''"j-: 117 110 gross registered tons ?"vi:t. while" the German losses T LT-Vi men and 60.720 tons. These irere officiallv published on both B"firssn aid British sides. " Miintain Their View. : "Xr.Serless authorities, both host-t!-"aii neutral, have expressed opin- a the battle, but the German peo-b peo-b itTrHl not permit themselves to be iu-L iu-L ?i :t a"-v foreign judgment. They irieritii alone how proud they may fce-f i caw whose quality and honor ksre stood the test 01 battle with the Fi--?5t 5t?a powers. They know that GiiJell-T " on Bethman-Hollwe, E;t;iT expressed the general sentiment is Li siekh in the reichsTatr on June i. when he said: 'This victory, too. ghili ret make ns v air: glorious. We tSw that Eng!&nd is not subdued or fC2?r?i bv this battle.' "&??l:e the battle of the Skaserrak the Cher events of the second vear oi the war, navaily ST-eakinp, pale into in-eUrii;a-:e. ia the first year the ac-ticrr ac-ticrr of German submarines aroused pie'raJ astonishment. In the second tr their activity was sharply circum-erihri. circum-erihri. bat nevertheless, the successes V-war z.r commerce were consider-ib!? consider-ib!? ia comparison with those of the tst j ear. Warships Sunk. "0a the other hand, the destruction of wars hi rs by submarines occurred but The U-27 destroyed an English prcte::ei cruiser in the Xorth sea oa Aini! 10. 1915. Another of our boat; siri the French armored cruiser Ad- ELaI Charnier in the eastern Mediter-riian Mediter-riian on February S, 1916. A numbei c! Z'-zi-t war vessels also were sunk. "--r-ish submarines did some dam to German commerce in the Baltic fc'i sc'ceeded in torpedoing several ol ; warships like the armored cmisei IVinct Ali'lbort, (Vtobfr Viuliufl, Novomber 7, and Kiouhmv, Pi-cimImt 17. " Sj'tvi ul men t urn i men tod by tli I'Oal thliI s oi our miu ino airorui t mid thrtr iuiuit:int scout work in tho North mi and rulrc. Attnc!- won iiuidi) Mniit t'oi titicd phicrs on I'aibnui 'a co:tt, and tlit' Knlh woro ablo to dt'strov onlv two airhlps No, l.'i on April "1 and No. 7 on May 4. Within a fow hours our airships aro nblo tvi roonn-n roonn-n o 1 1 o r tho entire North rt' a and t h oy divi aluabto sorv ice in tho but t lo otr Skairorrau. Marino aeroplanes aUo ilid excidleut work and especially diMiu-t;uihed diMiu-t;uihed theniolves on the Haltie, whero thev wove ol' the utmost aluo in urious ays. On so oral occasions t hey evo able even to take tho otVoai o w it li succes, damaiut; warhips with bombs and capturing merchantuu-n. "In the lHack sea and tho Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, German submarines working with thoo ot Atistio-llunary, operated uccessiu!ly in war against commerce and vies t roved numerous transports ladeu with troops and war material. In the lllack sea the Vawuso Sultan Selim, former for-mer Iv tho tier man cruiser (.ioeben, and the Midlu, formerly tho iJorman cruiser Hroslau. bombarded Kussian fort itied towns on th.e Orimean coast at various times and damaged Russian ctuiunerce. ' The glorious deeds oi several lior-man lior-man auxiliary cruisers remain to be mentioned. men-tioned. The Moowe, under the command of Count von Pohua. made a successful raid into the At Ian t ic in Januarv and F e b r u a r y . The A p p a m , one of t h o steamers captured tv it, carrying the passengers and crews of other captured merchantmen to the I'nited Mates, under the command of Lieutenant lieri;. The Moewe herself made her home port saf el v on March 4, laden with booty. "The auxiliary cruisers Meteor "and Ore if destroyed on August 7 and "February "Feb-ruary 1. respectively, tho much stronger armed British auxiliaries, Kamsny and Alcantara, "On the threshold of the third year of the war it remains to be pointed out that the German navv has hitherto fulfilled ful-filled its chief task ofkeopin the enemy from German coasts, and beyond this has scored a series of successes that have exceeded our most sanguine expectations. The German people do not ignore the fact that the British sea power still dominates the seas, but, nevertheless, thev look with confidence- upon their navy. Thev expect it to show itself able and willing to win victories in the third vear of the war as it has done hitherto, and thus contribute its part toward the general aim of securing an honorable peace.'' |