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Show I iinty-nine ships I SUNK INNORTH SEA B GERMANS ARE VICTORS IN H GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE H OF WORLD'S HISTORY. H Teuton's High Sea Fleet Engages H Part of England's Fleet In North H Sea In Furious Battle Which H Cost Many Lives. H London. In nno of tho -world's H grentest sen fights tho German battlo H licet wns victorious over tho English H hattlo cruiser squadron. Tho encoun- H ter took plnco in the North sen, Wed- H noHday afternoon. In a later engage H liient with tho main part of tho Brit- H Ish licet, tho mighty drendnaught, H licet, tho Germans made for their H homo ports. Mj Tho latest reports from tho Drltt BB lsh lleet, from neutral vossols which H witnessed parts of tho great naval H hattlo in tho North pea and from Bur- H vlvors causo tho British public to be- H llevo tho engagement was not so near H a defeat ns at flrst reported. The Hj lirltlsh losses with all tho craft en- H gaged accounted for, wero thrco bat- H tlo cruisers, thrco cruisers and ulght M destroyers. H Tho German Iosscb aro believed to H have been about tho same number ol H ships, although of a much less aggro- H gato of tonnage. H If tho revisod British reports ar H accepted, tho losses in ships wero up- H proximately as follows: M British: H Thrco battlo cruisers (Queen Mary, H Indcfatlgablo and Invincible); three H armored cruisers (Defence, Black H Prlnco and Warrior), about a dozen H destroyers and ono Bubmurino. H German: H Two hattloshipB (Wcstfalon nnd H Pommern); two battlo cruisers (Un- H named ; four light cruisers (including H tho Wiesbaden, Elblng nnd Frnucn- H lob); six destroyers and a submarine. H Tho British admiralty, in addition, H has admitted that tho battleship Marl- H borough was struk by a torpedo, but H declares sho was towed safoly to port. H It denies the German claim that, tho H drcadnaught Warspito was sunk, al- H though conceding that sho was dam- H ugod by gun Are. H British naval experts maintain that H Groat Britain continues to hold tho H supremo command of tho sea by a H safe margin and that her enormous H navy could hotter afford tho losses H It suffered than could tho smaller Ger tnnn establishment. The llrst reports H of tho heavy loss of lifo unhappily H havo not been revised. Great Britain H mourns for mora than 4,000 of her H best seamen and tho wholo nation is H oppressed with sadness, which is re- H fleeted Uv tlio faces of all tho people H of London. H There- wero somo 0,000 men on tho H ships which sank, and only a fow hun- H drcd havo been saved. Tho horrors H of modern naval warfare, far oxcocd- H ing thoso whon wooden ships fought H and continued to float oven whon H they ceased to ho fighting units, wero H realized to their utmost. From five H of tho largest ships which went under H with a complement of moro than 4,000 H men, only sovon junior officers and a H fow seamen wero rescued. H Tho two stiundrons, steaming at m full speed, camo within rango ot H each other somewhoro between tho H Skngorak and Horn Riff. Both fleets H immediately .brought their big guns H into action and a loug-rango battle B of oxtremo vlolonco onsucd. It is bo- H llovcd that most of tho heavy ships H 3ost wero sunk kr fatally disabled H during this daylight .battle. H At least two Zeppelins appeared H over tho battlo area during the lato H afternoon and aro reported to havo H taken an Important part in tho action. H Whether they sank any of tho British H ships is not known. H Darkness found tho fleets still man- H euverlng and llrlng. Night brought n H lull In tho long-raugo duel and shift- H cd tho brunt of tho battlo to tho H smaller vessels. Tho German cruiser H Fraucnlob was destroyed by a tor- H pedo, probably fired under tho cover H of darkness. H Though no mention is made of tho Hj proximity of tho great British high H 6oas lleet, it is conjectured that an- H other battlo squadron raced to tho H scene of tho combat at tho first re- H port of fighting. H Tho arrival of this forco is toe- H lloved to have caused tho Qornidns to H dash back to their Imso, H What part submarines took, in tho H action is not known, further than the H British admiralty report that a Ger- H man submarine is belloved to have H been rammed and sunk. H Tho British makes no mention of H probablo loss of lifo. Tho German of- H flclal report mentions two men res- B cued from tho Indofatlgablo and tno H picking up of members of tho Marl- H borough's crew. A thousand mob Wm probably havo been lost. The loss as ! n result ot tho sinking of tho vessels .will total nt leant $115,000,000. |