Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — 71 WARSHIPS ARE SURRENDERED DY THE GERMANS [ARTICLE]

71 WARSHIPS ARE SURRENDERED DY THE GERMANS

Another Flotilla ot 19 Submarines Arrive at the Brit- > ish Port. HUN FLEET NOW INTERNED United States Squadron Helps Rez ceive Ships of the Beaten Enemy t —Fifty of the Vessels Are of Destroyer Type. < Harwich, England, Nov. 22.—Anotber flotilla of German submarines sun rendered to a British squadron. Thera were 10 submarines In all. The twentieth, which should have come, broket down. Aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming In that North Sea, Nov. 22.—The bulk and!, pride of the German navy surrendered 50 miles off the coast of Scot-* land between 9:80 aad 10 o'clock! Thursday morning. It included 71 ships of all classes*; Including destroyers. The surrender went off according to plan. British and American warship# escorted the German craft into thel Firth of Forth, where Internment wh» begun at 1:45 p. m. ' The admiralty flashed the following official announcement by wireless: “The commander In chief of the, grand fleet has reported that at 0:80; this morning he met the first jind main installment of the German. i.‘gh seas fleet which Is surrendering.’** Fifty Are Destroyers. London, Nov. 22.—The German fleet iwas surrendered to the allies, as spebl-> 'fled In the terms of the armistice wltbt Germany. This announcement was made officially by the admiralty. 1 The German fleet surrendered, 1« known Thursday evening, coos slsted of nine battleships, five battlei cruisers, seven light cruisers and fifty* destroyers. There remain to be surrendered two* battleships which are under repair. ' One German light cruiser while on( Its way across the North sea to that surrender point struck a mine arid! sank. The British grand fleet, accompan-i led by an American battle squadron! and French cruisers, steamed out ati three o’clock in the morning from IM Scottish base to accept the The rendezvous was between thirty} and forty miles east of May islands opposite the Firth of Forth. The fog which had enveloped the grand fleet for three days cleared and! the weather was dull with a slight! haze hanging over the Firth of Forthj 400 in Allied Fleet. The fleet witnessing the surrender, consisted of some 400 ships, Including; 60 dreadnoughts, 50 light cruisers and! nearly 200 destroyers. Admiral Sirl David Beatty, commander of the grandl fleet, was on the Queen Elizabeth. The names <rf the battleships, battle! cruisers and light cruisers surrens dered have not been announced ofll-i dally. However, a telegram received! in Amsterdam from Berlin Sunday! gavq this list: Battleships—Kaiser, Kaiserin and! Koenig Albert, each 24,113 tons; Kron-; prlnz Wilhelm, 25,000 tons; I’rlnzregent Lultpold, 24,113 tons; MargraT Koenig and Grosser Kurfuerst, each; 25,293 tons; Bayern, 28,000 tons, and! Friedrich der Grosse, 24,113 tons. Battle Cruisers —Hindenburg, about! 27,000 tons; Derfllnger, 28,000 tons a Seydlitz, 25,000 tons; Moltke, 23,000 tons, arid Von der Tann, 18,800 tons. Light Cruisers —Bremen, 4,000 tons fl Brummer, 4,000 tons; Frankfurt, 5,4 400 tons; Koeln, tonnage uftcertaln fl Dresden, tonnage uncertain, and EmI den, 400 tons.