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The Germans, however, were allowed to publish their fictitious narrative

first. They say that they sank "in the waters of the English east coast "—a fine euphemism for somewhere east of the Dogger—one small cruiser and one destroyer, while another small cruiser and one battleship were badly damaged by torpedoes. As a matter of fact no British destroyer was sunk, and no Biitish battle- ship was torpedoed. Probably this last fiction was published as set-off to the fact that a German battleship was actually torpedoed by one of our submarines. This fact did not become known till Tuesday when the Admiralty published it.

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