AS THE "GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2801, 20 June 1916, Page 5

AS THE "GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE"

SIR JOHN JELLICOE'S VICTORY. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright •• London, June 18. Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, in an article forecasting Admiral Jellicoo'a dispatch, says he is convinced'it will show a victory as decisive as the glorious Battlo of the First of Jlmo (1794), and nearly, if not quite, as decisive as Admiral Rodney's victory on April 12, 1782 Also, that we were superior in strategy, tactics, gunnery, and enterprise. Never hal there been finer leading and more gallant' following. Admiral Hood and Admiral Arbuthno't had left behind them names covered with glory. The captains, officers, and ships' companies had responded nobly. The violence of Admiral Beatty's attack had demoralised and confused the enemy. Tho Germans admit that a German ship rammed the cruiser ElLing, and it is understood -'that tha Germans rammed one or two of tlieii own submarines. The ships were ordered to retreat, and ran helter-skelter • to safety, failing' to preserve their ' forma' tion. Our losses were less heavy than students of naval war under modem conditions had expected.