THE CAPTURE OF OSEL ISLAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9796, 20 October 1917, Page 8

THE CAPTURE OF OSEL ISLAND

GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE TAKEN 10,000 PRISONERS.

Admiralty Wireless. LONDON, October IS

A Gorman official report states: Our

captures in the island of Osel up to x now include 10,000 prisoners. Only a ferw hundred mon escaped to Moon Island. We also took fifty guns. Portions of our naval forces advanced, through the minefields as far as tho southern exit of tho Great Moon Sound, to which, after a short engagement, twenty Russian warships retired. We silenced the batteries on Moon Island, and on the Esthonian coast. Our naval units in the eastern portion of Kassarwick are barring the passage to the west. MOON ISLAND CAPTURED. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eentor. (Received October 19, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 18. ;A wireless Gorman official message states:. Wo have captured Moon island. NEW AMERICAN SHIPPING MILLION'TONS TO BE READY NEXT MARCH. By Toleeraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK, October 18. Additional shipping, amounting to a million tons, wil) be available from the shipyards in March. This total includes shipping being built for Bri-> tain and neutrals. ALLIED COUNCIL IN PARIS UNITED STATES TO BE REPRESENTED. T>v*«rrftpli-—Prej** Association—CVuDyrlcfci Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK. October 18. It is officially announced that tho United States will be represented at the forthcoming Allied Council in Paris.