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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. TEN THOUSAND LIVES AND THIRTY SHIPS LOST IN GREAT SEA FIGHT fiOTH BRITISH AND GERMANS SUFFER HUGE LOSSES IN BIG NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. TEUTONS ELATED AT OUTCOME flear Admiral Horace Lambert Hood, British, Went Down With His ship, As Did Many Other Officers Steel Ships and Modern Warfare Cause of Enormous Death Toll to Both Belligerents. London. The latent reports from the British lleet, from neutral ves sels which witnessed parts of the great naval battle In the North Sea 4iud from survivors, cause the British public to believe the engagement was ilot so near a defeat as at first re ported and in nowlso a disaster. Tho losses, with all England's ships en- gaged accounted for, wore approxi mately as follows, according to Brit ish reports: i battle cruisers, Queen Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible; three armored cruisers, Defence, Black Prince and Warrior; about u dozen destroyers and one submarine. Germany Two battleships, W.Qstfalen and Pommern; two battle cruisers (un named); four light cruisers, includli g the Wiesbaden, Elbing and Frcuen lob; six destroyers and a submarine. British naval experts, maintain that Croat Britain continues to hold the supreme command of lhv sett by a safe margin and that It.? I'noraous navy could better affor: the .looses 11 suffered than could tUj -smaller Ger man establishment. British Lobs About 5,000. The first reports of the heavy loss of life unhappily have not been re vised. Groat Britain mourns for 5,000 of Its best seamen and the whole nation Is oppressed with sad uess, which Is reflected in the faces of all tho people of London. It Is es timated in London that the German losses In men aro nearly as great, thus bringing the total number of dead In the great sea light up to lO.OOOor more. There were somo 0,000 men on the ships which sank, and only a few hundred have been saved. The hor rors of modern naval warfare far ex ceeding those when wooden ships fought and continued to float even when they censed to ho fighting units, were realized to their utmost From five of the largest ships which went under with a complement of morn than 4,000 men, only seven Junior of ficers and a few seamen wero res cued. , Rear Admiral Lost. Hear Admiral Horace Lambert Hood, second In command to Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, and Cap tains Sowcrby, Cay and Prowz wero lost with many others whose names lira not yet known, because the gov ernment has not so far Issued any casualty list. There were no surren ders, and the ships which went down carried with them virtually tho whole crows. Only the Warrior, which was towed part way from tho scene of battle to a British port, was au exception. Of some thousand men on the Queen, only a corporal's guard Is ac counted for. The same Is trun of tho Invincible, while there are no sur- German Aircrafts Lost. Paris. A squadron of French aero planes, pursuing a group of German machines which had Just bombarded Bar la Due, brought down two ma chlnea one of which Avas a Fokker. Storm Does Great Damage. McGregor, la. More 4ban flO.OOO worth of stock was lost In a storm thnt reached the proportions of a .cloudburst here recently. The water flooded stock pens In tho railroad yards, drowning hundreds of cattle. Business section greatly damaged. SEA BATTLE DIVIDED INTO FOUR PHASES. London. There were four phases to tho great contlict In the North sea. First The battle opened al 3:15 p. tn May 31st, when English battle cruisers and German crulsors engaged at n slx-mllo range. Second Tho large battleships from both sides arrived and re inforced tho fire. Before this phase British cruisers wore sunk. Third A desporate encounter between great battleships then ensued. This ended with the Germans retiring about 9: Id p. m. Fourth In n weird procedure tho German flotilla of torpedo boats bogan attack after attack, IJke Infantry following artllleiy preparation, on tho big English ships. This, It Is seml-ofllclally stated, did not result in nuy damage. vlvors reported from the Indefatiga ble, the Defense 6r the Black Prince, It Is Impossible to visualize any coherent story of the great battle, which lasted many hours, with the different unit3 at times fighting scat tered engagements. All Arms Used. Admiral Beatty, commanding tho battleship squadron, presumably on his old flagship, tho Lion, was' again In the thick of the action. Every arm of modern naval warfare was em ployedbattleships, battle cruisers, torpedo boats, destroyers, submarines and even Zeppelins. Whether much of the destruction was accomplished by gunfire or torpedoes Is not yet known. British oflicers say that the battle was fought by the methods known and practiced by all navies. There were no surprises and no new devices of weapons or strategy. How far the Zeppelins contributed to the German success is a matter of dispute. Only one airship came with in sight, according to the British ac counts, and It was soon badly dam aged and withdrew. But the Gei mans lay stress on the assistance ren dered by their air service and' neutrals report the presence of six Zeppollns In the North Sea. The poi ular belief among tho British public is thnt scouting Zeppelins kept the German fleet informed by wireless of the approach of their enemy and of his numbers and formation. The Germans are greatly dated at tho outcome of the engagement In which their main fleet under Admiral Scheer met the British, whose main lleet, they nssort, also was engaged. That tho Germans hold the field af ter tho battle is shown, they declare, by tho fact that the Germans picked up survivors of British warships that went down. London bfllcially denies that the grand fleet was in the action. Tho battle cruiser squadron which Is re ported to have rushed between tho Germans and their base, seems to hnve borne the brunt of the fight. Eleven British battleships eventually went into the battle, it is admitted, but of these several nre declared to have been only partly engaged. The British losses In oflicers wero extremely heavy, the list Including Rear Admiral Hood, who wont down with tho flagship the Invincible; Captain Sowerby of the Indefatlgablo, Builds Huge Storage House. Vienna. In the hope of bringing about some improvement In tljo food situation, the Vienna municipality has Just erected one of the largest cold storage warehouses In Europe. Irish Parliament to Open. London. Tho London Daily Stand ard makes the statement that a basis of agreement has been arrived at for settlement of tho Irish question and that tho proposed Irish parliament will be set up Immediately, Ulster be ing excluded. Captain Cay of tho Invinclple, and Captain Prowse of the Queen Mary. Tho total British losses are estimated at about 5,000. Few Officers Saved. The ofTlclal list of the casualties among oltlcers shows that hardly a single ofllcer of the lino escaped from tho British cruisers sunk In the bat tle. Au additional casualty list of petty oflicers shows that forty-threo of them were saved from tho Queen Mary, Invincible, Fortune, Ardent and Shark. Nono was soved from tho in defatigable, Defense, Black Prlneo, Tlppernry, Turbulent, Nomad of Nes tor. The list gives tho names of sixty five men killed aboard tho Warrior and of twenty-seven men wounded. On tho other ships engaged In tho fight 115 men wero killed and eighty five wounded. Says Germans Had Advantage. Genovn. According to news re ceived in Switzerland from German sources, whatever advantagu Ger many secured In tho naval battle was duo to two principal facts: First, that the Gorman now 2S centimeter guns outclassed tho Eng lish 40-centimeter guns In a running fight and, second, that German sub marines In attacking the larger ships, wero of great assistance. Where BattlcOccurred. From tho advices thus far recolved It would nppear that the greatest naval battle of history has taken plnco. Never before have two naval forces of such magnitude as the Brit ish and German high sea fleets en gaged In combat. But apparently tho battle was not fought out to a point to dotormlno mastery of the seas, for tho losses, serious as they arc report ed to have been will not Impair tho strength of either fleet to a vital ex tent. These scone of the battlo was In tho eastern waters of the North sea. It Is probably the German lleot was on one of the excursions into the North -sea which It has taken from tlmo to time during the war nnd met, whethor or not be design, with tho British fleet. Skakerak Is an arm of the North sea between Norway and Denmark. The point referred to In tho otllclal Germnn statement as Horn Itlff prob ably Is the reef off the Horn, on tho southwestern extremity of Denmark. Previous to this battle Great Brit ain had lost during the course of the war ten bnttleshlps, oleven cruisers nnd various smaller craft. Germany had lost eighteen cruisers, nineteen auxiliary cruisers chiefly converted passenger liners, and numerous small er vessels. Since the beginning of the war Brit ish cruisers ,nnd destroyers have pa trolled during tho day and night tho approaches to the German fleet's base, In tho bay formed by tho mouths of tho Elbe and the Weser, protected by the mighty fortifications of Wll holmshavon on the south, on tho north by the supposedly Improbnable defenses of the Kiel canal nnd guard ed by the outlying Island of Helgo land. Until the engagement that has Just occurred, however, no Germnn fleet has put forth in force to necessitate tho giving of tho alarm to the British main fleet. The long months of watchful wait ing by the British, however, wero broken Into by two naval ongage mepls In both of which the British were victorious. On August 26, 1914, Admiral Sir David Beatty In an en gagement almost undor the guns or the great Helgoland fortress sank three Germnn armored cruisers and two destroyers.' The German loss was 2,500 men. Street Cars Stopped by Snow. Pctrograd. Phenomenal cold, for this tlmo of year, prevails throughout ltussla. Tho street cars at Kazan have been stopped by snow. Tho temperature is at freezing point. Damage of $25,000 at Decorah. Decorah, Ja. About 125,000 damage was done by a severe rain and wind and rain storm hero recently. Two bridges near here on the Milwaukee line and another on the Hock Island, about io miles from hero were washed nway. SENATOR HARDING SOUNDS KEYNOTE Address to G. 0. P. Convention by Temporary Chairman. EARNEST PLEA FOR HARMONY National Defense, Protective Tariff, Square Deal for Business and Straight Americanism Set Forth as Country's Needs. Chicago, Juno 7. Sonntor Warren G. Harding of Ohio as temporary chair man of tho Republican national conven tion today sounded tho koynoto of tho party's campaign. His addross was la part as follows: Gentlemen of tho Convontton: It Is good to greet this ropresuntatlvo body of that American Republican ism on which aro centered tho high hopos of the republic. 1 can bollovo--nay, 1 know that a vast majority of tho people of our United States is ex pecting tho party sponsors hero assem bled to wrlto anow tho sncrcd cove nant of Republicanism, and reconse crate tho party to tho nation's servlco and the people's advancement. That samo majority expects you to select a standard-bearer who shall not only typify our expression of faith, but shall so onllst tho contldenco and trust of our American citizenship that the work of this convention will bo con firmed overwhelmingly at tho ballot box noxt Novomber. Tho country, wearied afresh by a disappointing and distressing Demo cratic administration, is calling for Republican relief, and there is every inspiration, ovory encouragement, ov ary confldcuco thnt tho light of Repub lican conscience, set atlamo In this convention, will lllumiuo tho wuy to tho country's restoration. We did not do very well In making for harmony tho last tlmo wo mot. Tho country has rogrcttcd, lot us for got and ninko amends to our country. We did not dlvldo over fundamental principles, wo did not disagroq over a" national policy. ' Wo spilt over meth ods of party procedure nnd prcforrod personalities. Iot us forgot tho dif ferences, and find now Inspiration and now compensation In an united en deavor to restore tho country. Tho essential principles of Repub licanism are unchanged and unchang ing; the lofty intent, tho lndcstructl bio soul and tho undying spirit of Re publicanism aro as dominant today as in tho destined beginning CO years. ago,nor at any time during tho inter vening years, and they aro empha sized today by tho proof recorded to Republican credit in the matchless chapters of American progress. The World at War. Much of the discussion of tho hour Is hinged upon a world at war. We need not wonder thoreat, bocauso tho enormity of tho conflict and tho Influ ences of Its upheaval havo sot man kind In upheaval. Tho traditions of civilization have been broken nnd In ternational laws havo been Ignored. There Is a tldnl wave of distress and disaster, thore aro violent emotions and magnified fears. There are tho extremes of Incalculable sacrifices and measureless now fortunes not all American. Thore aro new won ders and new hindrances in com merce, changed balances of trade, now rnarvols In finance and utterly changed economic conditions. These have attended ombarrassmonts in. our foreign relations as difficult as those which the Individual citizen experi ences whose every neighbor Is In volved In doadly quarrel. Everything is abnormal except tho depleted con dition of the federal treasury, which Is characteristic of Democratic con trol, and tho facility of the adminis tration In writing varied notes with out effective notice. Amid these conditions has stood this unarmed giant, typifying tho American republic, neutral and sane, to whom tho noutrnl nations have turned for leadership. Our national unselfishness hud bcon proven, our devotion to humanity had been es tablished, our committal to Interna tional Justice had long been 'pro claimed. Tho world had previously heard tho voice of American fearless ness, 4nd all the conditions single us out for leadership among tho neutral powers, but the administration at Washington spoko with moro rhetoric than resolution, and we came to re alize what tho warring powers soon came to know, that the official Amor lean volco lacked tho volumo of de termined expression that once de manded international heed, and wo lacked tho strength of confidence in our own defenses. For National Defense. Perhaps It Is a reminder moro than n discovery, but thoro haH come to us a conviction that this great nation, rich In resources and strong in pa triotic manhood, has been negligent concerning Its own defense. We have dwelt In fancied rather than real se curity. Pride mlnglos with regret In this, because tt suggests tho mind of a nation so freo from Intended of fonse that there was no cultivated thought of needed defense Our right eousness of purpose Is portrayed In our triiBt In unarmed safety. But there Is a earning in bleeding Eu rope, and there Is a call today for pru dent, patriotic and ample national de fense. There is no mistaking tho sen timent. We are not thinking of the byatorical, wo need not bo movod by f' a preparednoss which la partisan in conception Wo.iocd not bollovo In a defense proyugnndn Inspired by thoso who aim 7o wax fat In tho pro duction of nrts and munitions, be cnfiso thero ft nono. 1 deploro tho teaching thnt nn anxiety about our nn tlonnl dofenso Is Inspired by greed. We rejoice In freo Bpooch nnd freo press nnd untrnmmoled opinion, but patriotism is illy promoted by tho Im putation of rnlso motives, whether aimed nt thoso who bollovo In dofenBo or thoso who doubt its wisdom. Such a teaching rends tho concord of citi zenship, which may dovelop a worse peril from within than from any en emy without. Though wo do not protend to bo exclusive tu our devotion, wo Repub licans bollovo, "Inccrcly and soberly, In ndoquato national dofenso. Wo have always bolioved In nn ample navy, as Invincible In modern might ns John Paul Jonos bullded In our freedom's earliest light. Wo havo In mind a protected commerco on tho wators, nnd a scacoast sccuro In strong naval defense. Wo wero build ing to high rank among naval powers when the Democratic party Interrupt ed, nnd wo subscribe to a stronger committal now, because of n now re alization of tho envy which our wealth nnd our commerco Invite, and n now appreciation of our command ing placo In tho affairs of tho world. I shall not sny that It is ours to havo tho greatest navy In tho world, but noting: tho elimination of distnnco and tho pnBslug of our ouctlmo isolation, wo ought to hnvo a navy that fears nono In the world, nnd can say any tlmo and anywhoro: Thoso aro Amer ican rights nnd must bo respected. No Curse of Militarism. Lot no ono apprehend tho rurso of militarism In this fnlr lard. V do claro unalterably against It. Our freo citizenship, walking confidently, absorbed In tho triumphs of peaco, would tolcrnto no such blight on Amorlcan Institutions. Thore Is no surrender of cherished Ideals. With that yearning for ponce which has marked our continued development, with that samo committal to Justico which has given us front rank In the Senator Warren G. Harding. onward march of civilization, with that rare unselfishness which led us to uusheath tho sword for humanity's sake nnd put all territorial aggrandize ment aside, with that boliof In the square deal, Individual, national and International, which is tho foundation of American faith, wo mean to go on, au exemplar of peaco to all tho na tions, au arbltur of Justico to all tho world, a promoter of rlghtoousness to all the pooplo of tho oarth. At the same timu wo havo moro to do than to chart a national course through the wators surging with tho turbulcnco of war; our inspiring course is on tho highway of peaco. Our armed defense must ever bo linked with our Industrial self-reliance, and the nation worth dying for must Urst bo worth living for. Out of nature's prodigality wo havo Incal culable resources and limitless possi bilities, and thoro Is need only for tho unhindered application of man's genius and Industry to makq Us ns In dependent Industrially as wo aro freo politically. Ample dofenso rests on "Industrial' freedom and solf-rollunco as well as patriotic sacrifice, and Indus trial preparedness gives that assur ance of material good fortune in peace on which must bo founded all our higher aspirations. The Protective Policy. Subsistence la the llrst requisite of existence, and wo havo tho higher American standard of living because of, tho Republican protective policy which makes of Americans tho best paid workmon In all tho world. Out of tho abundanco of employment and higher compensation, together with the beckoning opportunity which of fers every reward, we Americans havo attracted the laborers of tho earth, and set now standards here. It Is not for me to put tho stamp of relative Importance on ponding Is sues tho Intelligent voters will de termine that for themselves. But I know what they are thinking, and they bellevo that the protoctlvo policy which made us Industrially and com mercially eminent la necessary to preserve that omlnonco. I know they want it restored and maintained, For mysejf, 1 prefer .a protective and pro ductive tariff which prospers Amer ica first. I chooBO tho economic pol icy which Bends tho American work ing men to tho savings banks rather than tho souphouses. 1 commond the plan undor which the healthful glow of prospering business Is reflected In every face from the great captain of M mill h try to tho schooling child of tho dally wage-earner. Tho Democratic party Is always con cerned about the American consumer. Our Republican achievement is tho making of a nation of prospering pro ducers, nnd by producers I mean ov ory human being who npplloa muscle or skill or brain or all to tho conver sion or nature's abundanco Into tho necessities nnd luxuries of Ufo or par ticipates In tho ways and moans of their transportation and exchange Far bottor a high cost of living and ability to buy than n lqwerlng of cost nttonded by destruction of purchasing capacity. Square Deal for Business. No honest business in this country Is loo big to bo good nnd useful, or too llttlo to bo protoctetl nnd encour aged, nnd both big and llttlo descrro the American shlold against destruc tion by foreign competition, nnd pro tection from tho raiders, political or otherwise nt homo. Business nnd ita agencies of transportation nro so in separable from each other and from tho common weal thnt tho political party which doos not pledge them a square doal, no moro and no loss, dooa not desorve tho cdnftdenco of tho peo ple Tho strength of tho business heart shows in ovory countonauco in nil tho land, and tho weaknoss of that heart holds a nation 111. Wo must strengthen tho heart of American business In government co-operation rather than official opposition. It Is not Inspiring to reclto Demo cratic failures. I shall not dwoll on that pnrty's Insincerity or Incapacity. Tho country Indicts nnd tho record convicts. U proclaimed tho sncrod hobs of Its plodgos nnd then profaned thorn. It professed economy and la staggered by Its own extravagance. It has turned ndoquaoy or rovonuo un der direct nnd unfult taxes to Insula 6lcncy and dlroct taxation. The National Expansion. Tho president has said ours Is & provincial party, ovldently forgetting the federalist founding of our nation ality and Republican expansion to greater national glory. Tho Demo cratic party not only falls to grasp our Immensity nnd Importance, It la sectional on tho mainland nnd unheed ing of our island possessions. Its vi sion doos not catch tho splendor of Old Glory in tho sunlight of tho world. Right new when tho devouring flamoa of war nro burning most llorcoly, when our nntlonal vtow must bo world-wide to, ha comprehensive, tho Democratic administration has pro posed to set adrift un Island omplro, tin violation of our obligations to tho world, to tho Phlllpplno pooplo nnd ourselves. No administration which hauls down tho flag and nono which proposes to haul It down evor can suc ceed In directing tho affairs of tho Amorlcan people. One century of marvelous dovohjp mont has lod us Into another century of International sponsorship. This mighty people, Idealizing populnr government and committed to human progress, can no longer llvo within and for ourselves alono. Obliterated distance makes It lmpossiblo to stand nloof from mankind and cscnpo wid ened responsibility. If wo aro to be come tho agency of a progrosslvo civ ilization nnd God's great lntont and to believe otherwise Is to deny tho proofs of Amerlcnn development wo must nssume tho responsibilities oC Influence and example, and nccopt the burdens of enlarged participation. To meet tho obligations we muBt first mako suro of maintained montaL moral nnd physical health at homo. The American Spirit. In tho travail of Ufo, liberty and the pursuit of happiness the Amer ican soul was. born. Sot aglow at Bunker Hill, It was reflected in tho faces of patriots of a feurloss repub lic, where men dedicated themselves to tho solemn and momentous task which was traced by nn Inllnlto hand. They were not all Americans by birth, but they woro dedicated Amer icans In tho baptismal rites of a now republic and a now patriotism. Thoy could not all sign tho Declaration of Independence, but they committed alt Americans to It for all succeeding tlmo., Thoy could not all Join In mak ing tho Constltutlop, but thoy pledged tho succeeding millions of Americans to its everlasting defense Tho gates of our ports havo swung Inward over Blnco, thero hns been a welcome to tho foreign-born, whom wo asked to drink freely or tho waters of our political life and find their plncos In tho sun of Amorlcan. oppor tunity. Thoy aro an Inseparable and Important and valued part of Amorl can citizenship, nnd tho few zealots of nuy origin who violate our neutrality do not and cannot Impugn tho loyalty or tho Amorlcau patriotism of that great body which adds to the swelling chorus of "My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet Innd of liberty." It Is not surprising that In tbelr hearts thoro is sympathy or partiality for the land of their nativity when it Is Involvod In a llfe-and-dcath struggle like that which saturates Europe with, the blood of their kinsmen. Search your hearts deeply, my countrymen. One must be humun to bo an Amorl cau, ho must bavo human sympathies and human loves, mid I should pity tho foreign-born and tho sons of foreign-born whoso very souls are not wrung by the cataclysmal sorrow of tho old world. But sorrow Is the test of soul and the very altar of recon secratlon. This Is tho momentous hour for the btazlng soul of Ameri can alleglanco. Tho spirit of tho fa t'.era is calling, and the safety of un born Americans Is demanding and tho security of tho republic is requiring that now ind hero and everywhere, undor the Star and StrlpeB, we pro claim a plain, simple, glad and unal terable Americanism. It must bo tho offering of loyalty and devotion and lovo and trust, and life, It need bo, to theso United States, now and ever lasting. , GERMAN FLEET WAITING FOR A CHANCE TO SLIP OUT 'ffiiiA: v IK H Mara ,,.J;vir Flrat photogrnph to arrive In this country phowing a portion of the German (loot. It is bolioved tho photograph "was taken at Wilhelmahavcn, but tho exact location was withhold by tho censor.
