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Show LOSS TO GERMAN NAVY MEASES Battle Cruiser Seydlitz Reported Report-ed Disabled, Pursued by Warships War-ships of Great Britain. Copenhagen, via London, June 5, 6:29 a. m. A dispatch to the Stiftsti-dende Stiftsti-dende from RIbe, Jutland, says that the German battle cruiser Seydlitz was sighted Thursday morning thirty-elgnt thirty-elgnt miles west of Fano island, going suth, pursued by British warships. She was badly damaged and had two large holes aft. Fano is a Braall island off the west coast of Jutland, about eleven miles from RIbe, and is In the immediate imme-diate neighborhood of tho scene of the great naval battle of Wednesday. London, June 4, 10:49 p. m The RriMcli nrlmtrnltv trmltrVlt IcCllpH n statement saying there was the strongest grounds for the belief that the British navy in tho battle with the Germans off Jutland last week, had accounted for a total of eighteen German men-of-war. and that there was nothing to add to or subtract from the original announcement of the British losses. The statement gave the German losses as two battleships, two dreadnought dread-nought battle cruisers, four light cruisers, nine torpedo-boat destroyers and a submarine. The pessimism which prevailed as a result of the admiralty's original statement of losses, which now Is considered to have been needlessly candid and conservative In underestimating underesti-mating the extent of the German losses loss-es as compared with those of Great Britain, has been greatly lessened by the lalert statement. Msny Rumors of Losses. A dispatch from Copenhagen says rumors are current in Hamburg that two additional German warships to those announced in the German communication com-munication the battleship Westfalen and the battle cruiser Lutzow were sniik in the battle. A wireless dispatch dis-patch received here Saturday from Berlin said the German admiralty admitted ad-mitted the loss of the Westfalcn. The admiralty statement tonight declares de-clares that the German losses In the fight were not only relatively,- but absolutely greater than those of the British. Maintaining its practice of caution, the admiralty still refrains from giving the names of the lost German ships Few Officers Escaped. The official list of the casualties among officers shows that hardly a single officer of the line escaped from the British cruisers sunk in the battle An additional casualty list of petty officers shows that forty-three of them were saved from the Queen Mary, Invincible, Fortuna, Ardent and Shark None was saved from the Indefatigable, In-defatigable, Defense. Black Prince, TIpperary, Turbulent, Nomad and Nestor. The list gives the names of sixty-five sixty-five killed aboard the Warrior and of twenty-seven men wounded. On the other ships engaged In the fight 115 were kiled and eighty-five wounded. wound-ed. Beresford's Opinion. Admiral Lord Beresford, in an interview in-terview today, while contending strongly for tie view that there was no failure in the British strategy and that Yico Admiral Beatty won a brilliant bril-liant success, though it was dearly bought, declares that the only mistake made was by the admiralty In allowing allow-ing the Germans to get first in the field with the news of the battle, or, as he puts It. with "Impudent fabrications." fabri-cations." Otherwise, said Lord Beresford, Beres-ford, no fault can be found with the admiralty. oo |
