JUTLAND BATTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1916, Page 5

JUTLAND BATTLE.

EEATTY PLAYED FOR BIG STAKES. COULD HAVE AVOIDED CONFLICT. BUT THAT WAS NOT HIS WAY. NEARER 30 THAN 18 GERMAN SHIPS LOST London, Tune .". The most striking impression gained by a visit to east coast ports, to'"which some of the ships that were engaged in the Jutland battle have returned, is that the result of the fight was much more, satisfactory than the first official announcements led one to expect, says the Glasgow Herald's correspondent. He continues: "It is an interesting experience to get into touch with the men who have been through the light. There is no pessimism there. Tliev are lirmlv convinced that, the Britisli ships gave as good and better than tliev got. Nav that if the full tale of the losses were told by the enemy, the battle would be bailed as one of the finest actions of the British Fleet. Whatever the enemy's mission (luring the enterprise—directed norlhwaid—whether it wa s to break out into the Atlantic or to carry out another .-aid on the English coast, it failed. The battle cruisers which met them encountered the German cruiser squadrons first gave them a merciless pounding, and when enemy reinforcements came, held up the German battle fleet in a grand but hopeless light until the British Grand Fleet arrived. Then the Germans, having bravely engaged a weaker force, bolted for home. BEATTY'S PART. Vive-Admiral Sir David lientty could have avoided a fight, but it is not the British way. He knew the British Grand Fleet was speeding to his aid. He knew that to engage the whole might of the German fleet was to sacrifice ships and men. but he knew also the high stakes he played for, and right gallantly did he do bis part. Three of bis battle cruiserj have gone to the bottom with their gallant crews. Others have come ill hearing their battle scars,: but Realty's reputation stands untarnished. '"You have not lost faith iu Realty i' one of the Tiger's crew was asked. '••Lost faith in Realty? No,' be replied, 'and we never shall.' "That is the reply of the men. They are proud to have been iu the fight. They are sure the British won, that is what they say. 'Wait and you will sec.'" POWER OF SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS. "These men may be hopeless, unreasoning optimists regarding the power of the super-Dreadnoughts, ihe battle cruisers, and the flotillas. They say they speak from what they saw iu the battle, which ranged from 12,0(10 yards. Eight capital ships went down like tincans filled with water. Smaller craft exploded, and went up like pinches of snull', and destroyers were wiped out like so many flics. The men may be wrong, but that is Ihe impression one gets wherever he goes. "It has not been what the British all believed on Friday—a titanic struggle to the death of rival fleets Hut it' is the biggest thing in respect of forces engaged the fleet has had, and from the attitude adopted by Germany, it is likely to have for many days, for the one. outstanding fact is that once again, when brought to the challenge of the main fleet, the Germans ran away." NEW ZEALAND AND MALAY SHIPS IN ACTION. London, June S. Official messages from New Zealand and Malay States show the enthusiasm i aroused by the gallant fighting of their 'ships in the ,Intland battle, when the fate of the whole Empire was so completely involved. The Admiralty sent special cables recording in warmest terms the Mother Country's debt to both Dominions 'for their generosity which enabled tho Navy to place so valuable a unit in the fighting line." A member of the Malaya crew says: "We were selected because of her superior speed, and we got into the thick of the lighting. The Malaya made splendid use of. her powerful guns, and it enabled her to put 'paid to account of tho Hindenburg.' "There is not the slightest doubt about it. for we were nearer )ier than any other German ships, and could (lis. linguish all her lines. She >vas flying the admiral's flag We put shell after shell into her, and saw hei turn over and sink. We sank nearer thirty than eighteen German ships, and Ihe Hindenburg was certainly amongst them. We had special orders, and we did not leave liier until we carried them out." | A member of Jic crew of the Malaya, I in an account of the North Sea battle published in the Daily Express, says: "After darkness had fallen, our destroyers made several torpedo attacks, and I myself saw the Hindenburg and another large enemy warship heel over and sink. We concentrated our fire on the great flagship of the commander-in-chief all the time daylight lasted, and got salvo after salvo into her sides. She was much battered by nightfall and then the torpedoes and the destroyers finished her oil'." "Are you quite sure it was the Hindenburg '<" be was asked. "I am absolutely certain," lie replied, with emphasis, adding: "We had been firing at her for an hour and a half laud 1 Jjnew every line of her." BRITISH SHIPS TORPEDOED. 150 GERMAN SUBMARINES LOST. ■Renter Service. Received July 20 8 p.m. London. July 24. German submarines sunk the Swedish sailer Juno Mida. The Norwegian ship Bamo was damaged. London, -Inly 2:1. Tiie British .steamers Grange Moor and Karma have been sunk in the Mediterranean, The crews were Saved. It is estimated that Germany has lost at least lot) submarines. Stockholm, July 24. Firing was heard north of Gothland. Five or six large German submarines in the Gulf of Bothnia have been tracking and engaging Russian submarines, thus promising a new phase of naval warfare. 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