JUTLAND BATTLE.

Otaki Mail, 26 February 1919, Page 4

JUTLAND BATTLE.

j SOME STRIKING DETAILS. ENEMY WAS SEVERELY HANDLED. London, February 24. A detailed account of the battle of Jutland, compiled from British official records; finally disposes of the German assertions regarding the number of German ships which escaped from the British gunfire. It is stated' that 12 battleships, 5 battle cruisers, am! 10 light cruisers were hit, while the battleship Osterievland was mined; 5 destroyers were known to have been sunk; the battle cruiser Luctzow sustained at least 40 direct hits, and was torpedoed twice and finally abandoned " and sunk by the German torpedoes. a The casualties on tlie Luctzow were I from 400 to 000. I Tlie account vividly describes the ter- # rible battering of the battleship.Koeiniu' and the battleship Seydlitz. The former was struck 15 times and four forward compartments were flooded as | tins result of direct hits. The ship I settled by the head and listed to port | ojj.d the starboard compartments had I' - v to right her. The crew to .. . ■■ „ tube were imof the forwu. iajued on June . prisoned and only cxu.v. " oth when the Koenig was dry doc. at Hamburg. The men bad been kept alive by feeding through a voice pipe. The "Seydlitz was hit by 23 shells, one torpedo, and beached in a sinking condition. She subsequently was refloated and docked. Of 22 German battleships engaged only 10, including the flagship, escaped damage. A few were soon repaired: others were laid up for months. All five battleships engaged suffered hcavI A complete record of the forces engaged is as folloivs: —■ British. 2-t dreadnoughts, 10 attached cruisers, S battle cruisers. 12 light cruisers. S vessels of the first and second cruiser squadrons, 0 vessels of light cruiser squadron, 'and 7S destroyers, ©ermans. 22 battleships, 16 cruisers, and 77 destroyers. It has been clearly established that of the vessels actually in action, the preponderance of force laj with the enenw,