RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE RIGA NAVAL FIGHTING,

RUSSIANS ABANDON TIU'IK BASE. Petrograd, Oct, 22. The crews of two Russian torpedo boats participating in the fighting at Oesel state:— We abandoned the bn«e, which was completely dismantled. Russian warships are now protecting the northern entry to Moon Sound .ind the mouth of the bulf of Finland against a fresh enemy attack. During the, ttulf of Riga operations, a submarine attacked the enemy fleet and fired two torpedoes at a Dreadnought, but.the submarine was shelled and riddled by seaplanes, so was compelled to submerge, realising that when she saw the clouds of smoke on the horizon that a Dreadnought ami fleet of Iransports was approaching. One of the latter was torpedoed.

ENEMY LAND AT VERDER. , 'BRITISH SUBMARINE AT VVOUK. 'London, Oct. 22. A wireless Russian official message pays:—The Germans, after a bombardment by destroyers, landed 011 the Verder Peninsula on Sunday, pressed back the advance posts, and occupied the western part of the peninsula.

A British submarine in the Riga Gulf launched two torpedoes at a German Dreadnought. The result is unknown. She attacked transports, destroying one ; HEROISM OF RUSSIAN SAILOR. ANOTHER HUN CRIME. ■Petrograd, Oct. 21. Details of the Oesel battle show that (he destroyer Groni was holed in twenty places and was soon a sheet of (lame, Ini t. continued to fire until every gun was out of action. The battle was fought at short range, and when the crew abandoned the vess«>l an enemy torpedo-boat attempted to tow the Groin away. A Russian sailor in the torpedo chamber, who still survived, bv heroic efforts, launched a torpedo and blew up the German torpedo-boat. Both vessels sank aide by aide. According to refugees from Oesel the Germans placed the Russian prisoners in boats saying: ''Get off to Russia, We have nothing to feed you with." When the boats were ,p short distance from land the enemy fired on them with machine-guns.