GREAT RUSSIAN NAVAL VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 5

GREAT RUSSIAN NAVAL VICTORY

-——« — : GERMANS LOSE ELEVEN WARSHIPS ;' LADING FORCE EXTERMINATED BATTLE - CRUISER MOLTKE " DESTROYED WITH THREE CRUISERS AND SEVEN ■ TORPEDO-BOATS BATTLE OF'SUYLA BAY ' TURKS HOODWINKED ON ; GALLIPOLI GERMAN ■ AMERICAN CRISIS Hie most cheering news for weelcs'comes from tho Eastern theatre to-day, with tha announcement that the naval battle in the Gulf of ■ Riga has resulted in a' great, Russian naval victory, with the loss, to the Germans, of no fewer than eleven ■ fighting ships—the battle- ' cruiser. Moltke, three cruisers, and seven torpedo-boats. "Add to ■ which is tho fact the cuemy has been driven from the Gulf of-Riga,' and that an- attempted landing was frustrated, the landing forces, being exterminated. On the land, the Gorman offensive is reported to have been pushed to within a few miles of Brest-Litovsk, but tho Russians ,are astride the Kovno-Vilna line, and are opposing the - enemy's advance in that region. The military situation is interestingly discussed by the critics. From tho Western front thero is very little in tho way of material change in. the situation. The newa from tho Italiaii theatre indicates the steady development of a vigorous offensive by General Cadona along the whole front. From the Dardanelles coines a vivid from the pen of the "Daily Chronicle's" corraspondcnt, of the British landing at Suvla Bay, and the intense conflict • whioh developed subsequently, when ths Turks bad re- -. covered 'from tho complete surprise that had been sprung upon them by. Sir lan Hamilton's brilliant coup.