Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-15 | Page 6 | French Confirm Black Sea Fight

oo FRENCH CONFIRM BLACK SEA FIGHT i Russians Do Severe Damage to Cruisers and Destroy Many Merchant Ships. Dnv.tr. T 1 r O M' I T L. itvi, oau iv. p, m. iue rrcncn department of marine today gave out an official statement which says- "The Russian fleet in the Black sea has fired upon the Turkish cruisers cruis-ers Breslau and Haniidieh, causing them severe damage. The Russian fleet then proceeded along the coast to the bays of Sinope, Trebizond and Flatane, and set fire to and destroyed a large number of the enemy's merchant mer-chant ships it also bombarded the port of Hopa " The activity of the Russian fleet in the Black sea referred to in this dispatch from Paris was recited at considerable length in a dispatch from Petrograd under date of January 10 The vessel referred to as the Breslau is die former German cruiser of thai name, which, with the Goeben, took refuge in Turkish waters early in the war. The Breslau has been renamed by the Turks Midirli and the Goeben was named Sultan Selim. nn