The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . itain which greeted the first news of the sea-fightwere materially modified in the light of later and fullerinformation, with the result that, while neither side ad-mitted a defeat, neutral observers were inclined to agree WARSHIP BATTLES AND RAIDS ON COMMERCE that it was impossible for either side to claim a great vic-tory. In first-elass fighting ships the British admitted theloss of three battle-cruisers, and claimed to have sunk oneGerman super-drea
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . itain which greeted the first news of the sea-fightwere materially modified in the light of later and fullerinformation, with the result that, while neither side ad-mitted a defeat, neutral observers were inclined to agree WARSHIP BATTLES AND RAIDS ON COMMERCE that it was impossible for either side to claim a great vic-tory. In first-elass fighting ships the British admitted theloss of three battle-cruisers, and claimed to have sunk oneGerman super-dreadnought and two or three Germans admitted the loss of one battle-cruiser andone small battleship and claimed to have sunk two Britishsuper-dreadnoughts and four battle-cruisers. The Kaiser,addressing the sailors of the fleet at AVilhelmshaven nearly*a week after the battle, announced that the English fleetwas beaten and its tyrannical supremacy shatteredand that the result will cause fear to creep into*the bonesof the enemy. Enthusiastic German editors acclaimed theGerman ruler as Admiral of the Atlantic, but the New. (£) KEYSTONE VIEW CO, THE DERFFLINGER AS SUNK AT SCAPA FLOW York World retorted that an Admiral of the AtlanticOcean w^io has not a single ship afloat on the AtlanticOcean and can not get a ship there should have hesitatedsomewhat before assuming the title. If Great Britains sea-power had been shattered, the same paper asked, whywere the North German-Lloyd and Hamburg-American shipsrusting at their Hoboken docks? The German Navy,^*it concluded, was still a navy in jail, which could assaultits keeper now and then with great fury, but remained injail nevertheless. Popular rejoicing in Germany would besucceeded by disillusionment, said the New York Times,when the people found the hateful blockade no less rigor- 73 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA oils, and food no more plentiful in Berlin. The EveningWorld sumnied up the results for tlie two
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