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Show 'fiOsSIAN WARSHIPS-ARE WARSHIPS-ARE B0TTLED UP CORDON OF GERMAN WARCRAFT BARS EGRESS OF BATTLESHIPS INTO GULF OF FINLAND. Outclassed by Reason of Superior Gun Range, Brave Russians Give Desperate Desper-ate Battle to Germans and Lose One of Ships. London. Apparently, contingents of the Kussian tleet in all about twenty warships of various (Masses are bottled bot-tled tip in Moon sound, with a cordon of (ieriuan warcraft barring fheir egress northward .back into the Culf of Finland or to the south into llo liulf of Kiga. I'rave, but outclassed by reason of superior gun range and heavier tonnage, ton-nage, the Russians gave battle to the Hermans and attempted to force back the enemy armada oil' Oosel island. Standing far outside the shell zone of the Russians, however, the guns of the Herman dreadnought sank the battleship bat-tleship Slava, a relic of the days before be-fore the liusso-Japan war and so badly damaged other units that the IUisslan flotilla was forced to seek refuge ref-uge in Moon sound lying between Moon island and the Esthonia coast. Immediately seeing their advantage, the Hermans, according to latest Herman Her-man official communication, began intensive in-tensive operations against Moon island, isl-and, hammering its eastern shore batteries bat-teries until they were silenced, and also attacking the Kussian guns on the mainland, putting them out of action. ac-tion. Mood island was captured and the Russians took refuge inside the sound. Thereupon the Hermans threw warships to the eastern part of Kas-sar Kas-sar bay, lying to the north of Moon island, barring exit from the northern entrance to Moon sound, and also rushed contingents to the south of Moon island, apparently (dosing the passage to the south iu the Hulf of Riga. Already the Germans have attempted attempt-ed to attack from the north into Moon sound, but the Russian guns have held them back successfully. |