British sailors who boarded the German cruiser Mainz after she was put out of action say that the effect of the British gun-fire was terrible. The masts were shot away and turrets were battered in. The were a mass of wreckage, and dead and dying sailors were lying all over the ship.
'A Harwich message, which has been heavily censored, described the landing of the wounded in Heligoland, after the fight. It said that there were plenty of eye-witnesses when the batch was landed shortly before 6 o'clock in the morning. Among the dead was a lieutenant-commander.
The German wounded from the Mainz were slightly burned; none had a full uniform. Many had suf-
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