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Show lu ,-n .neii-HH rim " ' GERMAN OFFICIAL hhl Urnln JilVllL siLfi unl Loss in Jutland Fight, Five Battle Bat-tle Cruisers, One Old Line Ship, and Five Tor- pedoBoats. Berlin, June 8, via London, 11:45 a. m. An official statement issued today to-day gives the total loss of the German Ger-man high sea forces during the battle off Jutland and up to the present time as one battle cruiser, one ship of the line of older construction, four small cruisers and five torpedo boats. The fifufemont cnVK "Of these losses the battleship Pommern was launched in 1905. The loss of the cruisers Wiesbaden, Elb-ing, Elb-ing, Frauenlob and five torpedo boats already has been reported in official statements. For military reasons we refrained until now from making public pub-lic the loss of the battle cruiser Lut-zow Lut-zow and the cruiser Rostock. The destruction of the Lutzow was claimed in the first statement issued by the British admiralty. At the same time the British claimed that two German battleships had been sent to the bottom and six destroyers as well as the ramming of a submarine. The British, however, only claim to have sunk one German light cruiser. Big Ships in Action. Berlin, June 8, wireless to Sayville, At the high tide of battle during the North sea action of last week the strength of the British and German fleets engaged, as given today from an authoritative German source, was: British At least twenty-five dreadnoughts, dread-noughts, six battle cruisers and at least four armored cruisers. German Sixteen dreadnoughts, five battle cruisers six older battleships and no armored cruisers. In addition numerous light warships were engaged. Additional details of the battle were recited supplementing the semi-official account given out on Tuesday of the early stages, during which it was said two British battle cruisers and one destroyer were sunk. oo |