BEATTY’S SQUADRON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1592, 1 August 1916, Page 4

BEATTY’S SQUADRON.

TOOK ON “THE WHOLE GERMAN NAVY.”

An eyewitness of the naval battle, who was on board a supply ship, with the Fleet, describes the part played by Admiral Beatty’s squadron.

“They were up against the whole German Navy,” he says. “Not a, man flinched, hut as the guns roared prayer after prayer went, up that Jellicoe’s squadron would arrive in time. But, greatly superior in numbers as they were, the Germans had things by no means their own way. One of our ships passed a double line of them, all the way receiving their fire, but she managed to come put afloat, and was then instructed to proceed to port, where she arrived safely.” The same informant, referring to the doings of another ship, which he believed was the (Shark, said she flung herself at the enemy, and was battered by their fire, but had her revenge. “One of the German ships, a cruiser or a, battle-cruiser, suddenly broke in two like a match between a strong man’s fingers, and went to the bottom. So it kept on until Admiral Jellicoe’s Fleet appeared on the horizon, and the Germans turned tail and ran.”