Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-23
Teuton Dreadnaught, Three
Cruisers and Seven Tor
pedo Boats Sunk
REJOICING FOLLOWS,
Populace Believed Result of Fight in
Gulf of Riga Answer to Prayer
Hindenburg Checked.

Petrograd, Aug. 23- An officia
statement from the admiralty toda!
regarding the Russian naval victor!
in the Gulf of Riga conficted is some
RESPECTS with the announcement mad'
in the duma yesterday.
The admiralty statement sala ina'
aone of the best German dreadnaugnts
was sunk by a British submarine,
and that "at least two German cruls-
ers and eight torpedoboats were sunk
"The Russian gunboat Sivutch w;''
set in flames after brilliant hght
and sank. carrying down with her 3
German torpedo boat" said the admir-
atty statement.
The statement made by the presl-
dent of the Duma declared that the
German dreadnaugght Moltke, three
German cruisers and seven torpedo
boats were sunk, and that the Ru :
slams afterward sank four German
barges loaded with troops. The adj
miralty statement made no claim ~
the sinking of the German trop ships.
For the first time since the Russians
took Przemysl with 1l7,O0O prisoners.
Petrograd celebrated the naval viz
tory today with services of thanks
giving in the cathedrals.
Sinking IF the German dreaonaught
and ten other German warshlps in
the Gulf of Riga the populace took as
a divine answer to their prayers for
victory. offered up in great religious
demonstrations one week ago.
The Russian fleet was greatly aid
ed in its attack on tse German naval
forces by British destroyers and sub
marines.
1t is not impossible that the Molths
was the German cruiser referred to in
the official statement that British
submarine had destroyed a German
dreadnaught in the Baltic.
Along with the News of a naval VIC
tory came word from the war office
that Won Hindenbburg's attemrF to
turn the Russian right flank has met
with stubborn resistance that has
brought the Germans to a halt.
London. August 23-The Germans
suffered heavy losses in the naval
hattie in the Gulf Of Riga Satur-
day.
A dispatch to the Central News
Service from Petrograd says:
"The president of the Duma has
announced that the Germans lost the
battleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga bat
tie"
The announcement of the president
of the .Duma, as sent by the cores
pondent. follows:
"In the Riga battle the Germans
lost one superdreadnought, the Mol
IKE, three cruisers and seven torpedo
boats.
"The German fleet has withdraw
from Riga Bay.
"The Germans tried to make des
cent near Pernpvn (Pernigel, on the
east shore of the Gulf of Rga, some
SIS miles north of Riga). Four barge'
crammed with soldiers took part IL
the descent. They were repulSed b!
the Russian troops without co-opera
tion of artillery, the Germans being
extcrminated and the barges captu
cd"
Earlier in the evening this dis
patch was received from Petrograd:
The German feet has left the GuI
Of Riga.
sour destroyer in the Black Sc;
have sunk over a hundred boats.
The German battle cruiser was
vessel of $4,000 tons and carried Il
ordinary times complement OF l,lo
men. She was sister ship of tn
famous Goeben, which became a par
of the Turkish Navy after the com
mencement of the war and was re
chriStened Sultan Selim.
The Moltke was 500 feet long an
was armed with ten 11-inch an
twelve 6-nch guns and twelve q
nounders. In addition. her armamen