Show RUSSIAN WARSHIPS ARE BOTTLED UP CORDON OF GERMAN BARS EGRESS OF BATTLESHIPS INTO GULF OF FINLAND Outclassed by Reason of Superior Gun Range Brave Russians Give Desperate Desper Desper- ate Battle Battie to Germans and Lose One of Ships London London Apparently contingents of ot the tue Russian fleet fleet in in all about twenty warships of various classes are classes are bottled bottled bot bot- tIed up In Moon 1 sound with a cordon of German barring harring their egress northward hack back Into the Gulf of Finland OE on to the tIme south Into tho the Gulf of Riga Brave Brave- but outclassed by reason of superior gun range and heavier tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage the Russians gave battle to the Germans and attempted to force back the enemy armada off Island Standing far outside the shell zone of the tue Russians however the guns of ot the German dreadnought sank the battleship battleship bat bat- Slava a relic of ot the da days s 's before before before be be- fore the Russo-Japan Russo war and so badly damaged other units that tile the Russian flotilla was forced to seek refuge ref ret uge age in Moon sound sound lyIng lying between Moon Island and the coast Immediately seeing their advantage the Germans ding according to latest German German German Ger Ger- man official communication began Intensive intensive in in- operations against Moon island island isi- isi and hammering Its eastern shore batterIes batteries bat bat- teries tories until they were silenced and also attacking the Russian guns on the tIme mainland putting them out of ot ac aCM ac- ac tion thou Moon island was captured and the Russians took refuge inside the sound Thereupon hereupon the Germans threw warships to the eastern part of Kassar Kassar Kassar Kas- Kas sar bay lying to the north of Moon 1 island barring exit from the northern entrance to Moon sound and also rushed contingents to the south of Moon island apparently closing tho the passage to the south in the Gulf of Riga JUga Already the Germans have attempted attempt attempt- ed to attack from froni the north into Moon 1 sound but the Russian Hussian guns have held them back successfully |