GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 24 August 1915, Page 5

GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

IN GULF OF RIGA. MANY GERMAN SHIPS SUNK. BARGES OF MEN ANNIHILATED. . A GREAT RUSSIAN VICTORY. LONDON, August 23. The High Commissioner reports: In the Riga battle the Germans lost the super-Dreadnought "Moltke," three cruisers and seven torpedoe boats. Tho Germans attempted a landing at Peraau, but were repulsed. The troops in four enormous barges wer e exterminated, and the barges captured. LONDON, August 23, 1.35 p.m. It was a British submarine that sunk the Moltke.

The Eussian gunboat Sivoutch i sunk eight torpedo boats, while she herself was flaming and sinking - . , (The Moltke is a super-Dreadnought finished in 1911, having a tonnage of 22,640, her speed is* 28 knots, her complement 1020 men. She was armoured with 11 inch steel and carried ten 11 inch guns, besides numerous other guns. The- Moltke took part in the Scarborough raid). •..•..'■

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNTSAD DAY FOR GERMANY GREAT LOSS OF SHIPS. RUSSIA LOSES A GUNBOAT. OUR GALLANT ALLIES HELP. (Reed 8.50 a.m.) PETROGRAD, August 23. Official: The navail authorities report that on the 18th the enemy renewed attacks on our positions at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, Taking advantage of a thick fog considerable enemy forces penetrated the gulf. Our vessels were falling back while continuing resistance.

The enemy suffered appreciable losses in torpedo craft. Our gunboat Sivoutch perished gloriously in an unequal action with a cruiser which was escorting torpedo craft.

At four hundred metres the Sivoutch, while afire fore and aft, continued to answer shot for shot until she sunk, having previously sunk a torpedo boat. The enemy having in view losses and considering the barreness of their efforts, apparently evacuated the gulf from the 17th to the 23rd.

TVe put out of action or sunk two cruisers, and not Jess than eight torpedo boats. At the same time our gallant Allies torpedoed, in the Baltic, one of Germany's most powerful Dreadnoughts. BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE DUMA. PETROGRAD, August 23. The president of the Duma announced the German naval loss and the landing at Pernovin. wherein four barques of enormous dimensions crammed-with soldiers were used. Russian troops, without the co-operation of artillery, exterminated the landingtroops and captured the barques. Official: The. German fleet has left the Gulf of Riga. LOSSES HEAVt'ER. THAN OFFICIALLY STATED. PETROGRAD, August |S3."' The correspondent.of the 'Chronicle" says it if privately reported *hat the losses are' *has bars cfraljy ssncuticcd.

IN THE BLACK SEA. ANOTHER 100 BOATS DESTROYED PETROGRAD, August 23 Cur destroyers in the Black Sea captured over a hundred Turkish boats. OFFICIAL REPORT. GERMANS DRIVEN FROM RIGA. The High Commissioner reports under date London, August 23, 12.55 a.m.: Petrograd reports that the German Fleet has been driven out of Riga. ANOTHER GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK. BY FRENCH OFF OSTEND. (Reed 12.25 p.m.) PARIS. August 23. Official: Two French torpedo boats sank a German destroyer oft Ostend. On Sunday night, after a fight wherein cur torpedo boats sustained insignificant damage to their hulls. GERMAN fcINERi SUNK.. LOADED WITH MUNITIONS AND provisions. •; f IN THE SEA OF MARMORA. SOFIA, August 23. A British submarine torpedoed the coalship Espahan, near Constantinople The German liner Tenedos, laden with munitions and provisions, was sunk in th© Sea of Marmora. ANOTHER iLIiNER SUNK. (Reed 11.55 a.m) LONDON, August 23 The liner Diomed has been sunk. ITALY—TURKEY WAR. DECLARATION HEARTILY APPROVED. CHEERS SCARE THE AUSTRIANS. ROME, August 23. The war with Turkey is enthusiastically approved throughout Italy. Cadorna's army received the news with frantic'hurrahs, the cheering being so loud that Austrians in their trenches thought they were about to be attacked. THE ITALIAN FRONT FURTHER PROGRESS REPORTED. ROME, August 22. A communique states that despite a heavy enemy bombardment we increased our gains north-west of Arsievo and captured some trenches at the head of the Travemanzes valley. Wemade slight progress at Corso, and captured a strong trench. The enemy made a violent counter-attack, We repulsed successive bayonet charg-

Wo repeated the air raid on Aisovitza. causing havoc. ITALY AND TURKEY AMSTERDAM, August 23. The German papers are angry at Italy's declaration of.war against Turkey. They generally assert that she # * 8 acting under England's orders. ITALIAN TROOPS FOR ASIA MINOR , ROME, .'"August 23. The Pope is ah out to appoint, addi■tiooaT'clGffgT $> the Italian 'rf'^vy^o to the Near