THE GREAT NAVAL ENCOUNTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 7 June 1916, Page 5

THE GREAT NAVAL ENCOUNTER.

ENEMY LOSSES NOT LESS THAN

TWENTY-TWO SKIPS.

VARIOUS VIEWS AND COMMENTS

THE ONLY RESULT FOR THEM

A HOLIDAY EOR GERMAN SCHOOL

CHILDREN

HER NAVY STILL IN GAOL

LONDON, June 6. It is freely stated that Germany's losses are not less than twenty-two ships.

It is officially stated that Wilhelmshaven . is closed to visitors for some' months. ' .

COPENHAGEN, June 6. The inclusion, of many of the crew of the Seydlitz. in the casualty list induces tlie belief t__tt the vessel was sunk.

PARIS, June 6. The Echo de Paris says that the German accounts carefully dissemble their losses., but establish the fact that th© night retreat, under difficulties, ended a great offensive.

M. Clemenceau, in L'Homme Enchaine', says that Germany's only strategical result of, the naval battle was a day's holiday for the German school children.

AMSTERDAM, June 6. The Kaiser sent messages to Admirals yon Tirpitz and yon Koester, eulogising the work which had made the Fleet a living war* instrument that stood so brilliantly its trial'of fire. NEW YORK, June 6. The concensus of newspaper opinion is that the German navy is still a navy in gaol, which assaults its gaoler now and then, but remains in gaol nevertheless.

PETROGRAD, June 6. The Council of Empire passed a re--' solution sympathising with the King and the British people in their painful losses and admiration •of the British valor.

_ LONDON, June/5. Forty naval men have been buried in an east coast town. There was an impressive, scene.

No men are reported saved from the Indefatigable, Defence. Black Prinze, Tipperary, Turbulent, Nomad and Nestor.

COPENHAGEN, June 6. Numerous, British and German bodies are washing up on the shores of west Jutland.

Steamers report that large German cruisers have been withdrawn from the coast of Conrland, where they were recently operating, and a large squadron .of torpedo boats that was lately patrolling the southern Baltic, was not seen last week. .. ..

'.' ■'•_■■. ; ' LONDON, Jun* 6. Navy League: after considering the information available states in unqualified terms that the final result is an undoubted British victory. The League warmly congratulates Admirals JellicOe and Beatty and the Fleet on their unsurpassed courage and skill, which has raised the standard of the "hole Fleet to the hijrhpst level of the Nelsoman tradition, while our superiority is greater than before.