Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-08-25

cruiser Motike, three other crule
eEs and seven torpedoboats, &C
cording to statements credited f.
the president of the Russian DUN,
No mention of Russian losses Il
made in the announcements. 4
German report Saturday. declared
the Russians had lost three small
warships
Emperor William, with severa
Of bis generals, has entered IT,.
cap. ured fortress of NJ vogeorievsl
the last Russian stronghold ir
Poland t. stand out against the
German advance.
No vital change is recorded in
the fighting in Poland and the
Baltic provinces. A desperate
battle is 5eing fought along the
Kovno Villa Railway aud the Me
m,n. Berlin reports that Won
e chhorn has made further pro.
gress east and south of Koyno,
while von Gallwi;z has creased
| B alystok. Brest Litovsk Railway.
Pesrograd, however, says this
whole railway line remains in
Russian hands. In tho west fight
iug has consisted mainly of ar
t,Iery duels With no important
changes.
On the Austro Italian front the
Italians claim several advances,
notably in this upper Boite region.
The Russian Black sea fact has
sunk over 100 Turkish boats, prob.
ally all of them cargo vessels,
Potrograd says.
Nothing has come through with
rgsrd tc the fighting on Galllpoli
Peninsula.
NJ. Venizelos has accepted the
p >st Of Prime Minister of Greece
aud it Is expected in Europe that
the uncertain Balkan situation
soon will clarity itself.
London, Aug. % The German
naval r5verses in the Gulf of Riga
and the Baltic sea, the German
capture of Ossowetz and British
naval bombardment of the Ger
man naval base at Zsebrugee. to.
day furnished a series of new fea.
lures which temporarily diverted
attention from the gravity of the
issues growing out of the sinking
of the Arabic.
The German vsrslon of the Riga
battle has not yet been given out
but the dt fipitsness Of the off ,ial
Russian rep5rt on the sinking or
gripping Of the German battle
cruiser Moltke, two other cruisers
and eight torpedoboats has sent
wave of enthusiasm throughout
the country and dlspelled the de.
preston over the Russian retreat
on laud. Aside from the loss of
the German ships, the naval an
gagement is regarded chiefly i'm.
portant for the strategic effect on
the land operations in the German
sweep eastward toward Fetrcgrad,
whioh military observers now cen.
slider as having been checked and
possibly irreparably defeated
The German center has pressed
forward steadily until Prince Leo-
pold is near tho Russian new live
of defense, but the military OBJ
servers say the entire campaign
hinged on the vast enveloping
movement of von Hldenb burg 8
forces in the north. They had
succeeded i'll pushing far beyond
Riga, TO Jacobstadt Oh the Ovina,
but the Rasslans ho.d on the
Gulf of Riga aud of the great ns-
val base OF Riga was a continual
menace in their rear.
This, the military observers say,
led to she shifting of a number Of
Gsrmsn ships, including b 9
Melske, from the North sea to the
Baltic, with the purpose of Con-
trolling Riga and thus protecting
a German land advance Oh Pttro-
grad The results Of the naval
battle appears def itely to have
defeated the German object We,
according to the observers, who
say that sside from the loss of the
ships the gulf and the naval base
OF Riga still are in Russian hands
and meuac:s Won Hjudsnburg'
further advance toward Petrograd.
Recommends Chamberlain collie,
ard R1as as~roan