t, name unknown, went down in the Adriatic, May
10, 1916, after a French submarine torpedoed her. She was believed to
have had a heavy cargo of munitions, but few soldiers, and probably
was bound for Durazzo, Albania, from Pola, the naval base.

The _M-30_, a small British monitor, was struck by shells from a
Turkish battery upon the island of Kesten in the Mediterranean and
sunk on the night of May 13, 1916. Casualties consisted of two killed
and two wounded.

The sunny weather of May brought a resumption of attacks by British
and Russian submarines in the Baltic. May 18, 1916, London announced
that four German steamers, the _Kolga_, _Biancha_, _Hera_ and _Trav_,
had been halted and destroyed in that sea within a few days. Other
similar reports followed and German shipping was almost driven from
the Baltic, thereby cutting off an important source of supply with
Sweden and Norway, the only neutrals still trading with Germany to any
considerable extent. For her part, Germany alleged that several
merchant ships torpedoed by the British were sunk without warning and
some of the crews killed. London denied the charge and there was none
to prove or disprove it.

An Italian destroyer performed a daring feat on the night of May 30,
1916, running into the harbor at Trieste and sinking a large transport
believed to have many soldiers aboard. Scarcely a soul was saved,
current report stated. The raider crept out to sea again and made good
her escape.

CHAPTER XI

THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND BANK--BEGINNING

A great naval battle was fought in the North Sea off Jutland, where,
in the afternoon and evening hours of May 31, 1916, the fleets of
England and Germany clashed in what might have been--but was not--the
most important naval fight in history. Why it missed this ultimate
distinction is not altogether clear. Nor is it altogether clear to
which side victory leaned. To pronounce a satisfactory judgment on
this point we need far more information than we have at present, not
only as to the respective losses of the contending fleets, but as to
the objects for which the battle was fought and the degree of success
attained in the accomplishment of these objects. The official German
report states that the German fleet left port "on a mission to the
northward." No certain evidence is at hand as to the nature of this
mission; but whatever it was, it can hardly have been accomplished, as
the most northerly point reached was less