THE GROM'S PARTING SHOT.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 October 1917, Page 3

THE GROM'S PARTING SHOT.

$ ■ Russian Sailor's Heroic Deed. (Received This Day, II a.m.) PETROGRAD, Oct. 22. Details of the Oesel battle between the Russians and Germans in the Baltic, show that the destroyer Grom was holed in twenty places, and was soon a sheet of flames, but she continued to fire until every gun was out of action. The battle was fought at short range, and when the crew abandoned the vessel an enemy torpedoer attempted to tow the Grom away. A Russian sailor in the torpedo chamber, who still survived, by heroic efforts, launched a torpedo and blew up the German torpedoer. Both vessels sank side by side. According to refugees from Oesel the Germans placed the Russian prisoners in boats, saying, "Get off to Russia, as we have nothing to feed you with." When the boats were a short distance from the land the enemy machine guns played upon them. (Received II a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 22. A French communique says: "We attacked this morning in Belgium to the left of the British army on a front of a kilometre (3-sths of a mile) and captured all our objectives." NEW YORK, Oct. 22. It is reported that German agents working as mechanics, put in wooden rivets instead of steel while repairing American troopships. Thirteen were interned from the Hoboken shipyards.