Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — GREAT SEA VICTORY IS WON BY GERMANY [ARTICLE]

GREAT SEA VICTORY IS WON BY GERMANY

Great Britain's Fleet Suffers Defeat In World’s Greatest Sea Encounter —Losses Admitted. London, June 2. —Picking its way from its base in the Kiel canal the German high sea fleet on Wednesday afternoon emerged into the North sea and off the coast of J itland engaged a British fleet throughout the afternoon and night in what prooably was the greatest naval battle in the world’s history so far as tonnage engaged and tonnage destroyed was concerned.

When the battle ended Great Britain had lost the battle cruisers Queen Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible, the cruisers Defence, Black Prince and \Varrior and eight torpedo boat destroyers, while the German battleship Pommem had been sent to the bottom toy a torpedo and the cruiser Weisbadcn sunk by the British gunfire. In addition several German torpedo craft were missing and the small cruiser Frauenloto had last jeen seen badly listed and was believed to have gone to the bottom. These losses havd all been admitted >y Great Britain and Germany. Aside from Great Britain’s conlosses Germany claims that the British battleship Warspite sister ship of the Queen Elizabeth, and one of the largest and most powerful ships afloat, had been sunk, that the battleship Marlborough, a vessefl )f 26,000 tons, had been hit by a torpedo and a submarine had been destroyed.