LAST OF THE BLUCHER.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3340, 8 September 1917, Page 3

LAST OF THE BLUCHER.

ADMIRAL HALSIOY'S GAMK OK GOLF.

London, July 13. Rear-Admiral L. Halsey, speaking at a Navy League meeting in Hertfordshire, said when the first order came to the battle cruisers before the action of Dogger.Bank, ho had gone ashore for a little game of golf.

"In the afternoon, a midshipman came rushing to me-Avith orders to get up steam. AYe Aveut back to the ship, and in a short time Aye AA-ere under way. There Avas a thick fog, and Aye Avent at full speed through it for some hours. 'I need hardly say how glad Aye Avere to run out of it. At seven o'clock the next morning Aye sighted the British flotilla of destroyers, which had left its base to the south of us. and Avas making full speed towards, the spot Avbere Aye expected to meet the enemy. Suddenly the flotillas opened fire. The signal Avent up for 'full speed,' and aAvay Aye went. The men doAvn below stoked aAvay like the heroes they are. ."At 8.15 avo sighted the German ships about 34,000 yards aAvay, going for all they were worth—unfortunately in the same direction as we avci-c. AYe managed to pick them up bib by bit. and at 9.15 wo had our orders to open fire at a range of something like 21,000 yards. AYe cocked our guns tin and let fly. The shooting was good, but tiie trouble was that Avlien AA r e had begun to get tho range avo only had between 30 and 40 miles Avhich we could go. The niucher fell back, and the guns caught her nicely. and in a very sliort time she was knocked out of the fighl and sunk."