last cruiser of the Indefatigable type. It was caused by a
heavy shell, and destroyed the vessel.

About 6.20 o'clock in the afternoon five warships of the Queen
Elizabeth type came from the west and joined the British battle
cruiser line, powerfully reinforcing with their fifteen-inch guns
the five British battle cruisers remaining after 6.20 o'clock. To
equalize this superiority Vice Admiral Hipper ordered the
destroyers to attack the enemy. The British destroyers and small
cruisers interposed, and a bitter engagement at close range
ensued, in the course of which a light cruiser participated.

The Germans lost two torpedo boats, the crews of which were rescued
by sister ships under a heavy fire. Two British destroyers were
sunk by artillery, and two others--the Nestor and Nomad--remained
on the scene in a crippled condition. These later were destroyed by
the main fleet after German torpedo boats had rescued all the
survivors.

While this engagement was in progress, a mighty explosion, caused
by a big shell, broke the Queen Mary, the third ship in line,
asunder, at 6.30 o'clock.

Soon thereafter the German main battleship fleet was sighted to the
southward, steering north. The hostile fast squadrons thereupon
turned northward, closing the first part of the fight, which lasted
about an hour.

The British retired at high speed before the German fleet, which
followed closely. The German battle cruisers continued the
artillery combat with increasing intensity, particularly with the
division of the vessels of the Queen Elizabeth type, and in this
the leading German battleship division participated intermittently.
The hostile ships showed a desire to run in a flat curve ahead of
the point of our line and to cross it.

At 7.45 o'clock in the evening British small cruisers and
destroyers launched an attack against our battle cruisers, who
avoided the torpedoes by manoeuvring, while the British battle
cruisers retired from the engagement, in which they did not
participate further as far as can be established. Shortly
thereafter a German reconnoitring group, which was parrying the
destroyer attack, received an attack from the northeast. The
cruiser Wiesbaden was soon put out of action in this attack. The
German torpedo flotillas immed