Show f Av At VICTORY At t a CHEERS RUSSIA F j 1 Petro Petrograd grad Official Statement r t Confirms Sinking of Eleven German Warships 4 t London J tag Aus Re 23 lter cor- cor corf f 4 nl at t tole- tole I- I 44 4 4 tint the tIle tu naval nn-nl f 4 lia ba come fUll nH n n ri grout relief 44 4 F 4 to the utter after the train of 4 laJ laM t n rek The public celebration 44 4 4 until tats Into night After f 4 1 III front of the Rot For 4 M 4 t marched to the theu 4 i i J Ju Aug u 23 The Tho Tho recent t n naval vat battle Jn to n tho Gulf of ot Riga is described os as follows ws In a statement from navy headquarters Tho The German fleet tIed on August 16 re- re nerved with largo forces Its attacks on our positions at the entrance to tho the Gulf of ot Riga tg Our ships during tho the and repulsed the attacks of oC tho enemy whose secret preparations for entering the gulf had been favored j singularly b by misty weather Taking n advantage of ot a I thick fog foff hostile forces of oC considerable I size ent en- en t d tho gulf ulC on the and our vessels vo ves sets sels retired nt at the same time lime continuing continuing ing to resist the enemy without losing touch louch with himOn himOn himOn him On the tho and tho the enemy re- re In different directions at atthe atthe atthe the same Barn time Ume l keeping up a 3 fight with our ships In which their torpedo boat flotilla suffered material losses tosses On our side Ide we lost tHe gunboat which perished p gloriously In an nn Unequal unequal unequal un un- equal light fight with an enemy cruiser which was escorting torpedo craft cratt and camo came up to a distance of ot yards ards from front her The enveloped inflames In flames continued to reply shot for shot until she sank having previously pre sunk enemy torpedo boats In view of ot the losses suffered and the futility of ot his efforts the enemy appears to have evacuated the Gulf o of Riga on the Between the and 1st two enem enemy cruisers and no fewer ewer than eight torpedo boats were either sun sunk or placed hors do de combat Simultaneously Simultaneous Simultaneous- I ly 13 our gallant allies succeeded In torpedoing tor tor- torpedoing in In Inthe the ono one of the most powerful dreadnoughts of or the German fleet The little Russian gunboat with a crew of or men Is said b by th the Petrograd newspapers to be the only Russian warship lost in tho the battle In tho Gulf of ot nl Riga a. a Commander kassov who distinguished himself at Port Arthur was in chal charge e of oC the 81 The num number bel of or- survivors has not been announced Although h the tho president of ot the duma dumar announced that the German battle b r I cruiser Moltke had been sunk b by a aI I British submarine there still appears to be some doubt whether it was the tho Moltke or a vessel o of oC that typo which was sent to the bottom The only onH other Gorman German warship of or the type of ot the Moltke according to 1915 naval records Is the battle battlo cruiser Goeben sold to Turl Turkey 1 In 19 1914 14 and find renamed the Sultan SeUm |