Eleven ships 63,015 3,966

[Footnote A:  These figures are given for what they are worth, but no one outside of Germany doubted but that their losses were very much greater than admitted in the official report.]

[Illustration:  Admiral William S. Sims

Commander-in-Chief of United States Naval Forces in European waters.]

[Illustration:  Admiral sir David Beatty

Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet.]

Total losses of men

British

Dead or missing.............................. 6,104
Wounded......................................   513

Total........................................ 6,617

German

Dead or missing.............................. 2,414
Wounded .....................................   449

Total........................................ 2,863

Loss in money value
(Rough Estimate)

British ............................... $115,000,000
German ................................   63,000,000

Total.................................. $178,000,000

While the world was still puzzling over the conflicting reports of the Battle of Jutland came the shocking news that Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, had perished off the West Orkney Islands on June 5th, through the sinking of the British cruiser Hampshire.  The entire crew was also lost, except twelve men, a warrant officer and eleven seamen, who escaped on a raft.  Earl Kitchener was on his way to Russia, at the request of the Russian Government, for a consultation regarding munitions to be furnished the Russian army.  He was intending to go to Archangel and visit Petrograd, and expected to be back in London by June 20th.  He was accompanied by Hugh James O’Beirne, former Councillor of the British Embassy at Petrograd, O.A.  Fitz-Gerald, his military secretary, Brigadier-General Ellarshaw, and Sir Frederick Donaldson, all of whom were lost.

The cause of the sinking of the Hampshire is not known.  It is supposed that it struck a mine, but the tragedy very naturally brought into existence many stories which ascribe his death to more direct German action.

Seaman Rogerson, one of the survivors, describes Lord Kitchener’s last moments as follows:  “Of those who left the ship, and have survived, I was the one who saw Lord Kitchener last.  He went down with the ship, he did not leave her.  I saw Captain Seville help his boat’s crew to clear away his galley.  At the same time the Captain was calling to Lord Kitchener to come to the boat, but owing to the noise made by the wind and sea, Lord Kitchener