Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-13 | Page 1 | Naval Battles in Black Sea

NAVAL BATTLES IN BLACK SEA Turkish Cruiser Badly Damaged, Dam-aged, But Escapes, Steamer Sent to Bottom. BOATS ARE DESTROYED Turkish Troops Driven Into Arms of Russians by Bombardment Bom-bardment of Own Cruiser. Petrograd. Jan. 13. Further details of the naval engagements in the Black Sea during the first week of January have been received in Petrograd. The scene of these activities wast between Sinope and Rizab. Turkish ports on the southern coast of the Black Sea The Russian ships came up with the Turkish cruiser Medjldi-eh, Medjldi-eh, convoying a steamer, the Maria Rosetta, with a cargo of naphtha for Trcbizond They opened fire on the Turkish ship and did considerable damage The cruisers escaped, but the .Maria Rosetta was sent to the! bottom. The night of January 0 the Russia fleet came up with the cruisers Bres-lau Bres-lau and Hamldieh A spirited eXr change of shots followed and finally the Turkish cruisers disappeared in I the darkness In SourmetH' hay ami in Rizah bay (35 miles east of Trebi-zond), Trebi-zond), the Russian warships destroyed fifty-one Turkish boats. The bombardment bom-bardment of the port of Hopa. which Is the distributing point for the TchO-ruk TchO-ruk region, caused a number of fins along the coast A strange incident concerning the proceedings of the Turkish fleet in the Black sea has been reported it seems that the Turkish cruiser Bres-lau Bres-lau bombnrded certain positions held by Turkish troops near Limun. whit h Is to the north of Hopa Following this bombardment Russian troops occupied oc-cupied without hindrance the positions posi-tions from which Turkish soldiers had been driven by the fire of their own cruiser