RIGA BATTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1915, Page 5

RIGA BATTLE.

UNEQUAL ODDS. RUSSIAN DESTROYER'S FIGHT. Received August 20, 10.40 p.m. l'etrograd, August 20. Five survivors of the Sivutcli, out of a crew of 135, havo arrived at Heval. They state that the Sivutcli fought a cruiser and two torpedoers for one and a-lialf hours. The last shell from the Sivuteh as she sank was a fatal one for the torpedoers, which were enveloped in flames and sank. WAR BREVITIES. INTERESTING ITEMS. Copenhagen, August 25. It is learned that Germany possesses 5S submarines. The Baltic fleet consists of 30 vessels. Six thousand Kiel marines have arrived on the east front for pioneer service. Rotterdam, August 25. Several incapacitated British noncommissioned officers were removed from a, train bound for Holland and detained in Germany, on the grounds that an exchange w«a undesirable, as they might be able to instruct recruits. London, August '25. An official denial is given to the statement published in tho German newspapers, professedly based on an extract from an English corporal's diary, that General Charles 'Ferguson last August told tho men to give the Germans] no quarter. Thousands of Welsh miners are striking as a protest against the tardy settlement. The Coal Conciliation Board failed to agree, and the sitting ended abruptly. Tho Nobel Dynamite Trust carried a resolution for voluntary liquidation, sanctioning the arrangement for the sale of German interests. Athens, August 25. A Russian aeroplane bombed the Bosphorus, and killed and wounded thirty Turks.