Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-15 | Page 4 | Admiral's Death Recalls Stirring Battle Scenes

Admirals Admiral's Death Recalls Stirring Battle Scenes The news that Admiral Franz von Hipper died in Germany the other day failed railed to get more than a paragraph paragraph paragraph para para- graph or two in most American news papers And that in a wa way was rather odd for Admiral von Hipper was a leading actor in some of the few really spectacular scenes that the World war afforded The World war wasn't long JonG on pictorial pic pie tonal effects Its battles were too big its operations too extended one man could seldom eldom see more than a detail of the whole such tremendous fights as the Somme or Verdun were too vast for any panorama But there were a n few great spectacles des cles and this Von Hipper had his part in some of the greatest the greatest the battle of Jutland This took place on May 31 1916 The German high seas fleet had ventured ven yen out into the North sea and Hipper commanding the cruiser squadron was some 50 miles mUes in fri ad nd- vance Coming down from the northwest northwest north north- west was the British grand fleet preceded preceded pre pre- ceded by the battle cruiser squadron under Admiral BeaU Beatty It was Beatty and Von H Hipper who collided first The battle that followed furnished really three pictures The first came when Von Hipper turning south tried to lure Beatty back into the jaws of the high seas fleet A running fight ensued ensued and and then his fragile battle cruisers racing like mad the English commander suddenly saw smoke on the horizon far to the south and made out presently pres pros the 22 of the Ger German German German man fleet steaming straight toward him Here surely was one of the great panoramas of the war The second was similar Beatty now fled north with the entire German German I Ger-I Ger Ger- man fleet in pursuit There was violent vio lent fighting at the head of the line Une and presently as the smoke cloud lifted lift lift-i ed cd the Germans saw before them the high tripod masts of or the 28 battleships of the British grand fleet leel Another panorama I IThen Then late at night the third the Germans running home darkness on the water the only lights the winking flashes Clashes from the guns extending all alon along the horizon as two of the greatest greatest great great- est fleets ever built struck at one another in the dark Three great spectacles spectacles and and Von Hipper Nipper played a leading role roJe in all aU of them S 'S I 5