the Editor of the "Nomrit-Ciuwa Dany News"
Sm—The well-known fairness of your paper, which you have acquired through your impartiality, causes me to ask you for the publication of the following:
The impression created by the article "British Victory at Jutland" the issue of your esteemed paper of 27, does, in my opinion, not warrant the facts. Please allow me present the German view of this indecisive, yet most important sea battle during the World War.
An important omission in the above article 1s a correct statement of the losses on both sides. By this, one usually decides who has won a ght. Especially then is this necessary when tone of the opponents claims victory for himself, Without going into further details 1 will give the (dal losses on both sides:
German Mish Scheer 6,000". Kiled 2 Enslisn Grand. Fleet, The withdrawal of the German ject during the night of May 31 to June 1, 1916, can under no circumstances be termed as "running away."
The numerical superiority of the Grand Fleet over the German Fleet was immense. Thirty-eight German against seventy-six English men-of-war, was the strength of the two opponents.
And finally, we ask ourselves why Jellicoe did Not attack on the morn ing of June 1, 1916. He was completely informed by is cruisers and furpedo boats, which had kept contact with the German squadrons during the night, of the whereabouts of Ihis enemy. However, the knowledge that the Grand Fleet as "Fleet in Being." Lo, only through its presence without any necessity to fight, fulfilled its task completely, and the danger it was running, even it vietorious, to relinquish the fact of being the strongest fleet in the world to America, which at that time was still neutral," were considerations "which were quite in accordance with the British policy at that time, but whic do not justify the accusation or blame that an enemy who had fought courageously against severe odds, had "run away."
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