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A WILD DASH THAT HAS NEVER BEEN EXCELLICI).

PROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO THE DAILY TELEGRAFIL"}

Many months ago it was my privilege to outline for the Solemn the doings oi | the Mystery ship, a splendid unit of our battle cruiser squadron,

There are men whom I know well in

the wig battle raiser, and on the morn ing of this day, week. I was one of those who watched the ships returning from the battle off the Jatland const.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 10тn 1926.

OF THE

THE DOMINIONS IN THE

·FIGHT,"

SERVICE OF THE "NEW ZEALAND" AND “MALAYA.!

The Secretary of State for the Colonies, at the request of the Admiralty, sent the following telegrams to the Governor of New Zealand and the High Commissioner. for the Malay States respectively

The Secretary of State for the Colonies; to the Governor of New Zealand

The battle cruiser New Seuland was in the thick of the naval battle on May |31st, and the Admiralty desire once mern It was a memorable wens when the to place on record the debt of the Mother long line of fighting ships, fresh from Country to New Zealand for the gutter- the greatest naval battle of modern times,

!

JUTLAND

TIGER" IN THE FIGHT.

HOW THE QUEEN MARY"

WENT DOWN.

CONCENTRATED GUN-FIRE,

RAMMING A SUBMARINE.

FIGHT

THE KAISER'S BOASTS.

BRITISH DESTROYER'S CHASE OF ALBION'S SEA TYRANNY BROKEN.

U-BOAT.

German submarine was also rammed and sunk."

One of the ganlagera of H.M.S. Tiger, the latest vessel of the British Battle- Cruiser Squadron, has given the follow-lourd the testroyer that was responsible ing account of the battle of Horn Rref (off Jatland)

The Lion, which was lending the line, followed by the diger, Princess Royal,

- So said an unimaginative Admiralty CUMABUBUK The men who were on

for the ramming of the U-boat tell the istory differently One of them, with a touch for the picturesque, likened the contact to the cutting of an egg-shell with a sharp knife. He said:-

We were doing a good 30 knots and

REVERSING TRAFALGAR

swung into a wide estuary and sought vity which has enabled the Navy and Guric Mary, was the first to open were well in the thick of it. The shells rejoiced from the depths. of my heart at the modrigs which they had slipped so place so valuable a unit in the fighting, the range being about 10,000 yards, were falling all round, and some were the sight of the growing Fleet and the

The Secretary of State for the Colonies

and common shell being used. Bonge

presents the latest in naval power. The to the High Commissioner for the Malay finding continued for a few minutes game, and we had our work to du. From up in the drill-shed ready to take the oath.

States:

The battleship Malaga was in the thick of the naval battle on May 31st, and the Admiralty desire once more to place on record the debt of the Mother Country to the Federated Malay States for the generosity which has enabled the Navy to place so valuable a unit in the fighting line."

According to an official telegram from. Berlin the Kaiser at Wilhelmshaven on June 5th and 6th, from the deck of the flagship, addressed delegations from all the vessels which took part in the battlo of the Skager Rak, the men being drawn. up on shore. The Kaiser middle

Whenever in past years I have visited my Fleet at Wilhelmshaven I have always

wiping things and men off the decks like growing harbour. I have looked with ninepins That was all part of the satisfaction upon the young crews drawn niner sadron doing what might be puewhere out to starboard we suddenly Many thousands of yan have seen ove called really good shooting till then spotted a torpedo track. Wo could see to eye with your superior War Lord when Then it could be seen that each of the the bubbles from her air exhaust coming on your taking the oath he reminded you British battle cruisers had begun business towards us at a great speed, and with n of your duty and your task; buf, above Wrench that trust bavo strained our all, of the fact that when the German in earnest. Control firing was adopted, screws we swung round in time to get Flees went to var it would have to Aghð the speed of each salvo being remarkable, the stern clear.nguinst gigant le superiority.

When you see the track of a torpedo The sermans, too, began to get the range coming towards you the first thing yon JAPANESE NAVY'S GREETING. as the vessels drew towards each other, tu is to look for the ship that fined it

and a particularly lucky shot cut away and if you don't soc a ship you know part of to ludepitiqubte's are-control". that there is a periscope somewhere kick About 4 o'clock every man the ing around watching you pretty close. I British Battle Cruiser Squadron, each don't think anyone on board spotted the Vessel of which had been singing duc an periscope of this one, but we started off opposing vessel, realized that the Goat an angle to the place where the tor Hans and not only a preponderance of pedo's wake had seemed to start from.

I saw a V-shaped ripple, and so did all. I have never before journeyed to you gaus, but, more than double the number- of vessels. They were clever in realizing of us, and we started in chase and caught in such high spirits as I do to-day. traced fine, and every gun of the Germanit there was a sliding bump and we rose Geras Feet has been built up froin men their superiority. They began cancer it up going full speed. When we got above Througe decades the peremuel of the squadron was first turned on the little out of the water and then sank from all parts of Germany. In penco but hardly a shell hit her: Two asphyngmin. It was as if we had half ridden time this aborious work has always been xiating projectiles fell on her upper deck.

over the submarine and then our weight carried out with one thought before us behind the bridge, but the majority full had been too much for it and had erash namely, that when the time should come short sending up terrific volumes of ed it in. It felt like cutting an eggshell we could prove what we could accomplish. with a sharp knife. No, we didn't stop.

Then the great war year came. Envious enemies, suddenly attacked the Father- to look for oil on the water, for at that

land. The Army and the Fleet were time we had the fire of two Gurman ships ready, but for the Flee: a hard time of Concentrated on us They sheered off resignation now began. While the Army presently when the Black Prince-in hot fighting against superior enemies think it was her took them ou

swiftly bours before. Par in the fore-fine." front came a mighty battleship, which re- German naval authorities assert that she is on the sea floor at this moment, and the Kaiser, that Barn amongst the gulers of the world, has endorsed the as- sertion without reserve. True, I could e a line of hills famous in literature through the gaps in her funnels us the mighty ship came slowly to the harbour, she ente in under her own steam, Naval men will know what that means in a ship of her type. She did the better part of 400 miles ander her own! steam, to harbour cfier she ought to have been on the bottom. There is some. ground for the German feeling that if that ship is not destroyed she ought to have been. She was the ship which, in the midst of a terrible action, stond up to the fire of the most powerful of the Kaiser's ships in numbers, which should have been overwhelming, and after send- ing to the bottom two great adversaries, was ordered but, and furned and camé home.

ENTIRE COMMAND OF THE

SEAS.".

The Secretary of the Admiralty an- nounces that the following telegram has heen received from the Minister of Marine Tukyo:-

“Thu kess of valuable and bravo offi- cers and men is deeply regretted, and to their widows and relatives the profound consulence and sympathy of the Imperial Navy goes out...

The British Navy will receive with pride the stirring message you have con- veyed on behalf of the brave Navy of Japan, and in the name of the Board of Admiralty I thank you-ARTOUT JAMES BALFOUR '*

Quick

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GUNS CONCENTRATED ON THE “ QUEEN

MARY."

We were engaged by two battleships at dozen submarines, which were popping up 15,000 yards, in addition to some balf everywhere. The loss of one submarine is given out, but I know that two were sunk within ten minutes of the loss of the had coms up ramming one, while the New Zealand blew another to pieces with her quick-firers.

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I think that there was so doubt that that submarine was doing some of the dainage to the Critiser Squadron for she was well in the middle of our fleet, and must have been there some time. Aay could stand that sudden impact. way, she went down all right, for nothing She was so near the surface that even a glanc ing blow from our stem would have rip: ped her plates to pieces. As it was we got her fair on. We could tell that by the ripple from her periscopo,

LESSONS OF THE NAVAL BATTLE.

GUNNERY OFFICER'S

EXPERIENCES.

A gunnery officer describing the Horn Ref fight from his special point of view says:

for ship we are much more than a match *One thing made evident was that ship

for the Germans. A mere accurate gange of relative strength would be to say that if they came on two to one we could still be equal to them. I do not say this in any spirit of boasting. It is a considered opinion formed on knowledge very little of which I can divulge to you.

tion with the Fleet, as it has already This consciousness has become a tradi- been with the Arniy from the time of Frederick the Great. Prussia as well as: Germany was always surrounded by superior enemies. Therefore it was pos sible to forge our nation into one mass, which hoarded up in itself endless forces renely to lez loose when necessity demand- ed have never

the Fleet in vain waited for a fight. could slowly conquer one after another, Numerous isolated deeds allotted to it clearly manifested the heroic spirit which filled it. But what it longed for it could not prove yet. Month after month elapsed. Great successes were gained on land, and still the hour had not struck for the Navy. In vain proposal after pro posal was made to bring the entry into the field. Then, finally, the day came.

The gigantic Fleet of Albion, ruler of the seas, which since Trafalgar for å hundred years had imposed on the whole world the ban of sen tyranny and had surrounded itself with

of invin a nunbus cihleness and insuperability, came into the field. Its Admiral, mare almost than anyone else, was an enthusiastic admiror of the German Fleet, a brave leader at the head of a Fleet which had at its dis posal splendid material and the bravest veteran sailors.

FIEST GREAT HAMMER BLOW.. Thus the superior British Armada approached, and our Fleet engaged it, and what happened The British-Fleet

world supremacy had disappeared. Like was beaten. The first great hainter blow

an electric spark the news rushed through was struck, and the airobus of British

the world and caused unprecedented jubilation everywhere, where German hearts beat, and also among our brave Allies. That is the success of the battle of the North Sea.

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I have learned with deep feelings of gratification of the recent brilliant and stubborn-fought naval battle with the Pnomy and of the splendid results The wonderful procession of the return- achieved On behalf of the Imperial ing brave which followed her into haNavy most heartily congrtulate our bour was a heartening sight to a people British comrades on this signal success, who at that time had been told of nothing on the valour and bravery displayed, on but that which foreboded disaster. The baving the entire command of the seas line of battle-oruisers, preceded by the with their mighty power without any light cruisers, bore another and a new change, and that the enemy was forend Inle. In soening silence. they swept to after great losses into his own ports and their moorings, and their decks were his plans frustrated. The laurels of vic The two squadrons approached ench crowded with the gallant men who had tory will more than ever rest with the ower for $0 mutes, and then the enemy fought great odds sad won. In one ship Allies after this successful battle

suddenly bore away to purt, soon turaing it was obvious that there were guns out.

cosupætery as if they were breaking on of action. In another a great dent on

the action. We turned as well, and mou the port side amidships showed where an

œuvring continued for 15 minutes, when enemy projectile had almost reached the

the German squadron again came alead, vitals of the ship, and around the point

|their guns being concentrated on t of impact a wide circle of yellow, decpon-

"The kind expression of sympathy of about for range for some minutes withont Guven Mary, They had been poking ing to brawn, revosled the effects of the

the British Admiralty at the death of eife when suddenly a most remarkable released explosive. The funnels of a Lieutenant-Commander Shimomura other were peppered by shrapnel or shell deeply, appreciated, and has been "con-

thing happened, Every shell that the Tragments. A famons battle-cruisør. This

Germans inrow seemed suddenly to strike ship, which is the pride of a great veved to his widow a cordial thanks the battlecruiser at once. It was as if enlony, and one of the best-known ships are due for the kindness and courtesy at whirlwind was smashing a forest down, of the Navy in the harbours of the world. all times extended to this officer by the and reminded me very much of the reffdl- There were gaps in the glorious line officers at the Admiralty and the Granding that is heard when a big vessel is launched and the stays are being shishelle which had sped to the battle, but Flest, especially his shipmates. ships which were returning were victor-

The following reply was sent¦---

The Queen Mary seemed to roll slowly to starboard, her mast and funnels gone, ious ships. Of cheering there was none that could be heard ashore. The equad

and with a huge hole in her side. She ren was conscious of great loss, the

listed again, the hole disappeared measure of that loss being not the nuo

beneath the water, which rushed into her, ber of ships' and men left behind to the

and turned her completely over. scour of the tides as the price of victory,

minute and a half and all that could be but the regard for each other which

sten of the Queen Mary was her keel, grows amongst gallant men who have en "Tell me how the scrap is going.

and then that disappeared. dured and fought and striven together man, for the love of heaven, strap me up since the King sent his messages to the and let me go up again. Fleet that war had come. Yet there were Alas that gallant fellow will never unnistakable signs of victory. As a well-walk again. To the doctor another know window came abreast on the shore wounded man, whose arm was gone, made or a familiar jetty or a fluttering hand the most determined appeals for liberty kerchief the men on the crowded decks to got buck into action. To With Queen Mary, one of our battleships that were seen to be waving arms and caps, my arm. I want to go and I knew that the lads were cheering give the boys, a band again and though the roll of it was borne away on The scene as the British destroyers the west wind. The Innrible was not dashed in a wild charge upon the whole in the place she held when the ships put German battle fleet drew rousing cheers be sea, and the Indefatigable the grand from the mystery ship as from the whole A remarkable change took place with "Old Indefag was missing also.

All sorts of lessons can be deduced of the British vessels. To see that the arrival of the Faliant, which, with from the fight. Let me give you one SAILOR PRYCHOLOGY.

flotilla tipe up and head full speed for They had been part of the price of the German fleet in a door die rush made the Barham, was the first battleship to point of consequence from my own obser victory. Somewhere out in the North one thank God that one was British, and

Strive. Together with the Warsprite, vations Our gunnery was much better Sea the two ships were lying, shattered, will make one thank God for being which had been engaged with two battle than the enemy's. At the start, as a and two men who had been my friends British every time the memory of it comes a gank earlier in the afternoon, they deadly and their guns were well served

cruisers somewhere astern, one of which rule, the German fire was accurate and would never return to portIt may back. It was the great sacrifice. Every appear strange, but it is the factman of that splendid flotilla knew that concentrated their fire on the end vessel So it remained while they were in supe neither of those men expected to return. it was death or glory. We know it

of the German line. It may seem incred-rior strength and able to throw four or There is a pliase of sailor psychology both. We cheered them, not that they ble, but in two minutes the vessel had five ships against every one of ours, but which has been impressed somewhat could ever have heard us in the inferno almost disappeared, only dense clouds of as soon as they came under the firu of vaguely upon me in vations areas of the of noise, but because we had to cheer.soke and steam marking the spot where our Battle Squadron the Germans began seven seas, but with impressive force since The destroyers went at racing speed into on there, for it was that vessel--a three fell off considerably, though they still se had been. There was some satisfae to deteriorate and their marksmanship the war began. Students of psychological a veritable hell. Aye, and they got in phenomena may deal more carefully with great work. We saw them pounded, and

fannelled battle-crair-which had put worked their guns hard. I am not sur the matter. I am only concerned with we saw them smashed but they hurled

a lucky shot right through the ram prisud that their crews became to some the presentment of the facts. There was home their attack, and the German navy Eus the Barkam had her own back

tro minutes after she had opened are extent demoralized, as they apparently a man on the Pathfurter who to my pride to-day knows how well they did in an

did by our gunfire, for our guns wrought egarded me as his friend. He spoke to attack which for its wild, dash has never Yet that was not the only ship we awful havoc among them, me one day of sending off a parcel by been excelled on the waters of the sank sight that I shall never forget "On hoard our own ships there were Jun. It contained all his money and all world." h

as long as I live was that of a great many casualties from gun fire, I am not his valuables, and the parcel was going

Vessel that was lying helpless on the rea referring now to ships that were lost, WHEN JELLIOCE CAM

GAME to his wife. There is something coming

There were cheers again from the with her engines out of astion. She con- but to those that were hit. But this was me," he said quietly, in explanation. mystery ship when away in the distance1ued to fire with deadly effect, evidently nothing in comparison to what the enemy Within thirty hours his ship had been the great skips of the Grand Fleeth control, so methodical were the suffered from the same form of attack. destroyed by torpedo and he had gone racing to the action which had been so salvors, till the Barkun and Faline The following will give you an idea down with her. So with the man on the gloriously upheld by the battle-cruiser opened fire on her at 4,000 yards She of the tremendous hitting power of cur Indefatigable to whom I have referred squadron came into sight and gave tongue literally Crampared within 60 seconds: Dreadnoughts. One of our 12in. ann For a week before the call to action came

guns. The men of the battle turrets disappeared over the wireless, he had been in the cruiser squadron knew then that for the her masts and funnels were the next to ships--the Herentes. I believe put her depths of depression, and had given ex- Germans the end had come. Three great go; and then slowly and horribly salvons into a German ship so accurately something pretty bad on the way bearing down on the scene, and there was British vessels began to hit her in the under the heavy blows which the Her

to his belief that there was lines of Jelloco's ships were discerned methodically the great ton shells of the that the enemy vessel heeled right over. And the Invincible case was similar. The joy in the squadron and dismay in the suns place at the same time with won-cules dealt her. Of course, that German sailormen have been proved sadly German kines The enemy did not stay derful precision. They literally dug a went out of action. If the 18in. guns acetrate in their forebodings, but they long to consider the situation. The total hole in the German ship till, with a would do that to a ship, how much more say stirring work before they went out period during which he could be said to tremendous explosion, she blew up destructive must be the well-directed fire

have presented what seemed an Her presence in the proud line which daunted frost to the Grand Fleet did not

Not long after she had disappeared we from 15in, and lain. guns?*** came back proclaimed that the luck of exceed twenty five minutes. Then he They came in are formation, but our were attached by about 1s destroyers. the mystery ship had held true. She had showed signs of distinct discomfort, and condary armament, sank three, the been in the very thick of the battle, and then came the break for home and shelter, shooting of our ganners being maghi- had taken hoavy punishment, but had The weather aided him in his flight, as ant. given more than she took. With an hour is well known. On board the mystery and a curious sight was one destroyer Une after mother was crippled, or two to take in food, fuel, and ammu- ship the damage done was not great as which had lost all her funnels, guns, nition, she was fit for the open sea and I have indicated, and the luck of the rpedo tubes, must and bridges still the fray again. There had been losses great battle cruiser holds. In token of travelling 15 or 20 knots, her decks, one on board. Men had fallen, and men had that I may give a story which is been grievously wounded. They are round the ship. At to going mass of fame, prond of their ship and of their service, action a leading officer on the mystery saw, concluded the seamen, but we had man Flect

There is little more of the fight that I those hardy fellows, who have gone with ship was asked specially to inspect the vessel over the whole world since the certain section of her. To be exact the nut escaped lightly, our superstructure One result of this battle has been to war began, looking for a foe that would section included the pantry,

LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM Considering the number of shells which It was the big calibre that told, and it to the German Fleetungkan rabbed it on to the aching parts, the rate the pride of them was paramount fends upwards to quote a sailorman, by us, however, the loss of life was very wine gunner battle. I do not say that something I notice, has been said as wellings, the twitching drawn up hands

midst of the wild struggle. There shell. As the officer looked at the who defied the doctors. In the frenzy extraordinary fast that despite the the undoubted superiority of British gunnery was better at all points that The Germans meant to break through the better nutil complete care was effected

in that fight man myself, but such is the fact. Our not think there is much doubt about that more applications and they grew daily of battle they are almost unconscious of general upheaval the pantry mirror hung gunner over the Germans, Gun for that of the enemy, and we are now abeo blockade and throw a squadron of fast LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM cures their injuries.There was one man with scathloss and level, as though the chip gin we were absolutely superior, and 1 lately certain of our superiority warships into the Atlantic, where they at all times. It is never too late to begin,

grievous leg jujury, who appealed to had never left the graving dock. The only with they had stuck it for another marksmanship. But we do want tome would have done tremendous damage and

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A new chapter in the history of the world has been opened by you. German Fleet has been able to defest a Tio superior English Fleet.

God Almighty has steeled your arms and kept your eyes clear, but i am standing here to-day as from the bottom of my heart am your Supreme War-Lord and I thank you standing here as the representative and in the name of the Fatherland to express to you its thanks, and in the name of my Army to bring you the greenings of done his duty, at the gun at the Dolor the sister service. Every one of you has

the same thing. Nobody thought of him in the wireless, but every one thought of set. Only one thought filled the whole Fleet-namely, We must succeed. The enemy must be beaten." Thas I express to leaders, officers, and crows my tullest In these days when the enemy before appreciation and thanks t Verdun is slowly begining to collapse, when our Allics nave driven the Italians from mountain to mountain and are still driving them baes, you have accomplished world was prepared for anytning, but this beautiful and grand deed. Ther

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