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Timaru Herald, Volume CIV, Issue 15980, 5 June 1916, Page 6

'Admiral. Sir David Moady. ' \vlki comnnuuli'd |lk> British bai i If.'-c.vuiscr lleol: in i ho battla ot last \V cdill\sday, had coin- i maud in i lie- P.at.llo of ilic I foli- 1 yoland in ihc lirsl mnnii) of t lie Avar, vlion, by very daring (moral ions. tlio (icrmans were mo -|r> liiso i wo new c-pni -"l's, the; iLaiuz iiud Ivuin, and it \

smaller cruiser, the Ariadne, wilhotif the . loss of a single j>ri'ish ship. JJc directed again, in January of last- .year, the Battle o). (he Dogger Bank, in "Inch (he, Germans lost tho ueher, with serious damage to the JJerflmger and the Seydlitz, >im ayain no British ships .wore OS, Admiral flipper, in. command ot tin., <; ( , ri)liln r( . f!onnil i, s . ' an, r lon ' (> * "» Wednesday, waa J" diiirge of the German 'srpjadloj, which miglit have met wifli grea er casualties if Admiral JSeatty, at a critical moment, had not been forced by „„ injury to Ins .ship, the Lion, to tran'miv-j. his flag to .another vessel, and transfer command of the pursuit. The Invincible, lost on Wednesday, look part in this action, as il had done in the victory of the Falkland Islands, . less- than two months before.

'lhe German claim that their losses in the naval battle were no more than the minor vessels Bommern, Frauenloh, and Wiesbaden. vies in impudence with' the falsehood that they were outnumbered by the British vessels, I.he pietenee of sued) small losses was too incredible for even them to keep up. Their full casuallies will not be acknowledged by the Germans, but the loss of the Westphalen. ;i battleship of 18,600 tons, is said now from America to be admitted, and the Germans state that another of their ships, the Embling, was blown up by them as the result of injuries accidentally received. The I'omjueri) was believed to have been destroyed in July last by the British submarine Commander liorton. in the Baltic. The Germans denied the loss, and she may have been only damaged. A .Willi, "lie may have bepn destroyed, and her name given to another Gorman vessel. It is not yet clear whether the 'Australia and New Zealand took part in Wednesdays battle, but the probability is that they were present. From nil accounts it was a verv battered fleet which regained German harbours. . The British, fleet was in a much more seaworthy condition. The German warships which are said to have put- into Danish ports, unable to go further, will have need to hurry their repairing to escape their liability to internment, It is doubtful, however, if Denmark could enforce internment against German warships,

Continuous attacks, in " compact masses,'" enabled the Germans, after enormous losses, to enter a fosse north of Fort Yaux, which is south-east. •of Fort Douaumont, and gain a, lodgment; in the village o'f Damloun, further to the - east.. The French argue, ironi the absence of intervals in the offensive, that a last desperate hurried effort is beingmade at Verdun bv the Germans and thev expect. that it will fail. There lv>s been heavy fif>-hI i»ty on the British front at Y>n-es, and the Canadians havc been' hard pressed in re-nellutq- Germoit attacks. The Russians lmvn had to fall back to avoid onltiankin.Q- north of Mosul. There ino official news from tlm Italia" front, but it; '"s niiviii>.| out that the advanced "os'timi of the Au«t nan centre. \vli'»h ns double dnnr-'er to the T<ah*nn w'i»trs if it can overcome tire, defenders' centre, has its own very present danger for the invaders.