The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-24
Russian and British Submarines
And slay Destroyefs Sink Bat
. tlecruiser Moltke, 8 Other Teu-
ton Cruisers and I Destroyers
REMAINDER OF KAIsERs :
SQUADRON BADLY CRIPPLED
This Victory Together With Sew
ere Check Given To Germanio
Armies, Serves To Raise Spir-
its Of Anxious Subjects Of Gar

III L NN'ONfhD, august SO.-
L With one Of the greatest naval
victories of the war to celebrate
and with word that the Russian
army appears to have at last been
able to check and hold the Austro-
Germans, wave of enthusiasm
swept through the nation yesterday
and exultation replaced the grow
ing feeling of pessimism that COM
menced with the fall of Warsaw
and had continued.
In the battle of the Gulf of Riga
the German feet has been signally
defeated and driven off; with Rus
sian and British submarines and
Russian destroyers darting in the
rear of the crippled vessels, max
ing their way back to Kiel, seek
ing further chances to strike.
German Losses Are Heavy
The German losses In the battle
were heavy. The battlecruiser
Moltke, sister of the Goeben, of
1900 tons, armed with ten H.
inch guns and carrying crew of
eleven hundred men, is sunk, with
three other cruisers of the German
Baltic fleet. I II
OF small crafts, the Germans
lost seven destroyers, sunk by gun
fire or blown up by mine or tor
iipedo,' while number of the other
ships in the defeated feet are Sc
riously damaged. a
The announcement of this vic
tory, made officially yesterday by
the president of the Duna, was
hailed with general satisfaction
throughout the nation o.
British Cooperation Hailed .tI
The fact that British Submarines
played large part in the general
engagement, sinking at least two'
Of the German cruisers, has ifnfile-l
fiately removed much Of the feel
ing of general dissatisfaction that
had arisen over the apparent in
activity of the Allies along the west
front, when a vigorous offensive
wotifd have, in the popular mind
relieved the tremendous pressure
against Russia.
'" The satisfaction over the victory
of the Gulf of Riga was added to
yesterday afternoon in the receipt
OF news from the Grand Duke Nj
Cholas; the Russian commander in
chief, that his forces had repulsed
the German attacks for the posses
sion of the Bialystok railroad. ,
Germans Have Withdrawn
The Germans have withdrawn
from before the Ossowetz posi-,
tons, where they have been repuls-.
ed time and time again and where
they have lost during the past few
weeks fifty thousand men, says the
grand duke. while in the district
OF the Niemen River the Russians
have driven the invaders back and
cleared the river along three
fourths of its length.
The greatest battle now raging IS
before Brest. Litousk, where the Aus
tro-Germans have crossed the Bug Riv-
err both south and north of the fortress,
IN the face of great, resistance. The
Teutons are now endeavoring 10 makc
good their foothoId, while the Russiahs
are driving counter attacks Forward.
Ip the face Of this lighting, the stfug,
gle for the possession OF the railroad
bstweer Kovno' and wilma has become
Of secondary iinportance,
Russian Resistance Stiffens
All along the front the Russian re
distance has stiifened, which fact,
coupled with the naval victory, has
Been greeted by the people as evidence
that the tide has turned and that
Rnssiah offensive viii now take the
place ~ the continual retreats.
pOrfdcnee in the good faith OF the
British aud French, in their efforts to
felieyh the strain Upon Russia and a
renewal q confidence In the Russian
military authorities are expressed and
il * the general belief now that the
darkest hours have passed,
People Have Been Uneasy
Up " Yesterday the nation WINS *
pericnring . cold discomfort and dis
appointment, while the interior cities
have had their pessimism added by the