Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-25
The European War Day By Dav.


oraVe resistance. Forty members of
the crews, including two officers,
some severely wounded, were res
cued by our torpedo boats.
Three Of our torpedo boats were
damaged by mines. One sank, one
was run aground and one was escort
ed to port.
our loss Of life was small"
The Sivutch and Koreets were SIS
ter ships Of S57 tons displacement.
ihey were 21S feet long, Sc teet
oeam and feet deep. They v ere
armed with two 4.7-inch guns md
four 3-inch guns. The normal com
| plement was lao men each.
| Steamship COber Down.
London, Aug. 22.-The British
steamer Cober has been sunk by a
submarine. The captain and crew
have landed safely.
The Riga Naval Battle.
Petrograd, Ang. 23.-The Russian
| gunDoat Sivutch, with a crew Of las
men, is said by the Petrograd news
papers to be the only Russian war
ship lost in the Gulf Of Riga battle.
Commander Tcherkassov, who dis
tinguished himself at Port Arthur.
was in command of the Sivutch. The
number Of survivors has not been an
| nounced.
The naval battle in the Gulf of
Riga is described as follows in a
statement from navy headquarters:
"The German fleet on August 9Th
renewed, with large forces, its attacks
on our positions at the entrance to
the Gulf Of Riga. Our ships during
the 10th and 18th repulsed the at
tacks Of the enemy, whose secret
preparations for entering the gulf
had been favored singularly by misty
weather.
Taking advantage Of a thick fog,
hostile forces Of considerable size en-
tered the gulf on the 18th and our
vessesl retired, at the same time con-
tinuing to resist the enemy without
losing touch with him.
ION the 10th and goth the enemy
reconnoitered in different directions,
at the same time keeping up a fight
with our ships, in which our torpedo
boat ilotilla suffered material losses.
On our side we lost the gunboat ST.
vutch, which perished gloriously in
ln~ "ro"vH' G"ht With an nnamv crui
ser "'UcO w@s nscolri1a torpedo craft
ward. from hGr The Siyutch. ell
,rlor.d - 1tuca. noui.nund to reply.
shot for shot, until she sank, having
previously sunk enemy torpedo boats.
''ln view of the losses lffered and
the futility of his effo Is, the enemy
appears to have evacuated the Gulf
of Riga on the 21st.
Between the 10th and 21st, two
enemy cruisers and no fewer than
eight torpedo boats were either sunk
or placed hors de combat. Simulta-
neously our gallant allies succeeded
in torpedoing in the Baltic one Of the
most powerful dreadnaughts Of the
German fleet"
(The foregoing contains no refer
ence to the Russian gunboat Koroots,
which was said in an official German
statement Saturday to have been sunk
also.)
OSsOwctZ Fort Falls.
Berlin, Aug. 23.-German troops
have occupied the fortress of Osso-
wetz. which was evacuated by the
Russians, German headquarters an
nounced to-day The German state
ment reads:
"The troops OF Gen. Won Eishhorn
are making further progress east OF
Kovno.
"On the Bobr we occupied Osso-
wetz fortress, which was evacuated
by the Russians.
"North and south of Tykocin sue
cessful engagements took place. Ty-
kocin was taken. On this occasion
200 prisoners, including | / officers
and II machine guns fell into our
hands.
'Desperate Russian counter-attacks
east Of Bielsk failed, with very con.
siderable losses to the enemy, and We
advanced south Of this town.
Engaged in stubborn fighting, the
army group of Prince Leopold has
crossed the Kleszoze-Leranza line and
is engaged in further favorable at.
tacks. We took $3.50 prisoners and