JUTLAND INCIDENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1916, Page 5

JUTLAND INCIDENTS.

THREW SHELLS OVERBOARD. TERRIFIC BLAST FROM GCBCS, independent Cable Association).

Vancouver, June 12. The London correspondent of the New York 'Press Association states that he visited Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty's battle-cruisers after the fight, and found ,the Officers and men in splendid fettle. Instead of being depressed, they were inclined to feel sorry for the Germans. "It is impossible to speak too highly of the officers and inen on the destroyers," he says. "They were simply wonderful, fhey consistently *eld the upper hand in the greatest battle ever engaged in by these little craft. Until we have Admiral Sir John Jellicoe'j complete report; it will be out of the question to expect more connected details than have been already published. I can. however, relate incidents and give impressions that may show something of the spirit that animated our men

"The fleet itself is quite ready for another battle as big as that of Jutland. The gallant exploit of the commander •of one of the destroyers is one of the striking incidents in an action which abounded in extraordinary feats. The fifth in the line saw its four file leaders individually put out of action, but kept ahead unswervingly, sent aV its torpedoes home, and then saw a great German battleship looming through tlfe mist so closely that when the enemy •fired his big guns the blasts from them blew over the funnels and masts of the little warship. The destroyer escaoed further damage. "Another marvellous escape of one of our destroyers was discovered when a stoker reported himself to be wounded. JTo shell had apparently struck the vessel. The comamnder declined to believe the man, but he was reported next morning as a casualty case, and he showed the commander a 12-inch unexploded shell which had dropped through a hatchway into the hold. "A similar incident occurred aboard H.M.S. Lion. Two middies in the fighting top saw an unexploded 12-inch shell lying on the deck amongst some burning debris. They ran and tinguished the fire and threw the projectile oyjfboard." .