The North Sea Fight.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1915, Page 5

The North Sea Fight.

THE GERMANS ON THE CRAWL HOME. UNITID Pbih Association. London, January 29. It is reported that the battle cruisers Seydlitz and Derfflinger got home little more than afloat, the former being afire. The Derfflinger had every gun out of action and was damaged astern by a torpedo. Narratives of the Blucher's survivors show that the British broadside Wade the ship reel, the guns geing torn from their settings and.whole gun crews hurled to destruction. Men were swept from the deck like flies. Everywhere blood trickled and flowed. Shells burst in the interior of the vessel, which was in a halo of flame. Those in authority lost their heads and their nerves, being unable to stand the strain.

The Arethusa finished the Blucher with a couple of torpedoes.

One of the Blucher's officers confessed that the Fatherland might beat England on land, perhaps, but on sea, never. Another remarked: "Your .shells are terrifying, and your seamanship marvellous."

A number of the Arethusa's crew states that the Blucher's men were game to the last and lined the rails. One of our officers megaphoned that a torpedo was coming and they instantly dived overboard. We threw over hundreds of planks whereto the Germans clung until picked up.

THE DERFFLINCER UNDER REPAIR AT HAMBURG.

(Received 10.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 29. The Derfflinger, which is being re. paired at Hamburg, was seriously damaged. PRESS COMMENT. (Received 8.25 a.m.") London, January 29. The Daily News snys: "The desperate tenacity of tlic German account of the North Sea fight is plain evidence of the severity of the naval blow, which has "been inflicted on Germany, whose people cannot be allowed to know the truth." "Sooner or later," says the Daily Telegraph, "the truth will spread like a deadly fever, and the psychological game will be exposed, and the on.'] of the war will be appreciably hastened. "