THE LAST OF THE BLUCHER

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1917, Page 6

THE LAST OF THE BLUCHER

ADMIRAL HALSEY'S GAME, OF GOLF.

(FROST OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 13th July, Rear-Admiral L; Halsey, speaking ak a Navy League meeting in Hertfordshire, said when the first order came to the battle cruisers before the action, of •Dogger Bank, .he had gone ashore for a little game of golf. "In the 'afternoon a midshipman came rushing to me with orders to get up steam. We went back to the ship, and in a short time ire were Tinder way. There was a thick fog, and we went afc full speed through' it for some hoars. I need hardly say how glad we were to run out of it. At seven o'clock the next morning we sighted tka British flotilla of destroyers, which had lefb its base to the, south of us, and was making, full speed towards the spot where we expected to meet the enemy. Suddenly the flotillas opened five. The signal went up for 'full speed,' and away ive went. The men down beloir stoked avray like the heroes they are. "At 8.15 ive sighted the Gemnan ships about 34,000 yarxte away, going for all they were -worth—unfortunately in the same direction as we were. We managed to picJj them Tip bit by bit, and at 9.15 we had our orders to open fire at a range of something like 21,000 yards. We cocked our guns up and let fly. . Ths shooting was good, but the trouble was that when we had begun to get the range we only had between 30 and 49 miles which we could go. The Blucher fell back, and the guns caught her nicely, and in a very short time she yras knockedl out of the fight and snnk."