I was looking through the back
files the other day and amongst other interesting information I came
across the wireless report from the boat that had sunk the _Lusitania_.
It has always been a mystery to me why we sank her, as I do not believe
those things pay.
* * * * *
Arnheim has come back, so I have got out of the ciphering department,
to my great delight.
I have received official information that my application for U-boats
has been received. Meanwhile all there is to do is to sit at
this ---- hole and wait.
_2nd June_, 1916.
I have fought in the greatest sea battle of the ages; it has been a
wonderful and terrible experience.
All the details of the battle will be history, but I feel that I must
place on record my personal experiences.
We have not escaped without marks, and the good old _Koenig_ brought 67
dead and 125 wounded into port as the price of the victory off
Skajerack, but of the English there are thousands who slept their last
sleep in the wrecked hulls of the battle cruisers which will rust for
eternal ages upon the Jutland banks.
Sad as our losses are--and the gallant _Lutzow_ has sunk in sight of
home--I am filled with pride.
We have met that great armada the British Fleet, we have struck them
with a hammer blow and we have returned. I was asleep in my cabin when
the news came that Hipper was coming south with the British battle
cruisers on his beam. In five minutes we were at our action stations.
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