GERMAN NAVY.

Evening Star, Issue 16352, 19 February 1917, Page 3

GERMAN NAVY.

REPAIRS AFTER JUTLAND.

LAST OF THE LUTZOW.

PRESENT BUILDING PROGRAMME

CHIEFLY SUBMARINES

AMSTERDAM. February 17. ihe ' Telegraaf ' publishes <t remarkable narrative ot a German seaman who won the Iron Cross at the battle of Jutland, >ut has since deserted owing to bad food. He was on board the Lutzow, which had 1 crew of 1,600 men. of whom 1.000 were waved. Three hundred wounded were irowned when the Admiral ordered the cattte cruiser Lutzow (28,000 tons) to be sunk in order to prevent her falling into uitHia-nds of the English. The man says the Lutzow was ?"? ocl °ck "i the evening, the explosion killing or wounding many of th<> er«w X~\f th T ?,J" received four "hits with loin sneiis. Lm E peed was Mcluced to thiee miles an hour, and 1,000 men were taken oft by lour destroy-* at 3 o'clock in the morning wh en five English destroyers and javo small cruisers were threatening the Lutzow. One of the rescuing destroyers " a f s{ } n }\- Finally another destroyer 'torpedoed the Lutzow. which sank in a few minutes with the wounded, who were sacrificed to prevent the enemy capturing the vessel. Ihe. English closed in upon the sinking Lutzow, enabling the three destroyers to reach Wdhelmshaven. " rf,,T ny i 0f U ? e Germa " "hips were severely damaged when proceeding homewards" Lfred! SaJ ' s theS ° have 6inco bK » ™"

Ihe sailor Mrs the German dockyard* iw . now exclusively cuistnict-in" " sun : marines and large cruiser*, but the HintTZ* T ths ?*<**" -ill be compiet,d e »ely and ready ior active service bv Marchalso a new Emden and Karlsruhe He estimated that Germany had 200 b' jOJ. Most ot t-na submarines are ,-ot pected to return from their eimse-and no« 3 submarine have b.«m tot than any d the Germans dare to admit. The traintag of then- cmv S lasta on] si „, Uieie aie.many accidents during th, tria™