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Show ELEVEN GEil WARSHIPS SUNK RUSSIANS REPORTED TO HAVE "drVEN BIG FLEET FROM GULF OF RIGA. Superdreadnought Moltke Three Cruisers and Seven Torpedo BoaU Are Sent to the Bottom, Accord-ina Accord-ina to Russian Advices. A dispatch received In London from Petrograd says that the presl-dent presl-dent of the duma has announced that the Germans lost the battleship Jloltke three cruisers and seven torpedo tor-pedo boats in the Riga battle. The announcement of the president of the duma, as sent by me corre-spondent corre-spondent follows: In the Riga battle the Germans lost one superdreadnought, the Molto. three cruisers and seven torpedo boats. ' The German fleet has withdrawn from Riga bay. The Germans tried to make a descent de-scent near Pernpvin (Prenigel), on the east shore of the Gulf of Riga, some thirty-five miles north of Riga. Four barges crammed with soldiers took part in the descent. They were repulsed by the Russian troops with- -out the co-operation of artillery, the. J Germans being exterminated and the. barges captured. The German superdreadnought super-dreadnought Moltke was a vessel of 23,000 tons and carried iu ordinary times a complement of 1,107 men. She was a sister ship of the famous Goeben, which became a part of the Turkish Navy after the commencement commence-ment of the wax and was rechristened Sultan Selim. A dispatch to the London Times from Petrograd confirms the announcement an-nouncement of M. Rodzlanko, the president of the duma, of a Russian victory in the Gulf of Riga, and the sinking of the German battle cruiser Moltke. The correspondent appended to his dispatch the following official communication: com-munication: Confirmation of the naval victory in the Gulf of Riga was conveyed to the duma committees on Sunday by M. Rodxianko, president of the duma. The members of the committees requested re-quested M. Radzianko to congratulate congratu-late the navy on its splendid achievement achieve-ment and to convey to the minister of war their compliments in the defeat de-feat of the German invaders at Per-nau Per-nau by local levieB. Among the German warships sunk is the battle criuser Moltke. Four huge barges filled with soldier were V -caviureu ana cue mvuui 'Hirrounded and taken prisoner. Along the western front there have been some spurts of liveliness in the fighting, but nothing that could be called a battle. It is now evident that the fresh landing of British troops at Suvia bay., on the Gallipoli peninsula, robbed of Its element of surprise by the appearance appear-ance of Turkish reinforcements, has proved somewhat of a disappointment, the only gain being that another strip of the peninsula is in the possession of the allies, and more Turkish troops must be employed against them. |