, 1915-07-07

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torpedo boats, but were unframed. To half
an hour the augsburg" finding the Rus
sian fire too hot, abandoned her slower con-
sort and fed southward. The German mine
layer "Albatross' began to show signals of
distress and the torpedo boats endeavouEed
to assist her escape by throwing out vol
umes of thick black smoke from their fun
nels, thus rendering the fog denser. The
foremost of the "Albatroes' was shot away
and clouds Of steam rose from the doomed
ship, which listed to starboard and hauling
down her flag, made for the coast. As she
was badly damaged and was entering nea-
trial waters, the Russians ceased firing, and
soon she was seen to go ashore behind the
Ostergarn lighthouse. The Russians cruised
northwsrd aud sighted . q squadron Of the
enemy, including an armoured cruiser of
the "Roon" class, a hight cruiser OF the
augsburg" GLASS and four destroyers.
The Russians Immediately joined battle
and haitian bOur later the enemy be-
gan to retreat while several submarines
attacked our ships unsucoeSafully. The
"Rurik" was sent full speed after the re-
treating vessels, which were Joined by an
other cruiser of the "Brem8n" GLASS, and she
soon had the satisfaction of seeing the effect
of her salyos, for the enemy's fire was weak
ened, and four s inch guns Of the "Roon"
class ship were silenoed, a fire broke out, and
obviously disliking further conflict, the enc
my disappeared rapidly in the fog. The
Russians sustained only trifing damage,
none being killed and only IA wounded.
Shortly afterwards they we're again attacked
by torpedoes from the German submarines,
but were protected by torpedo boats which
had arrived, one torpedo boat being dam
aged in driving off the submarine attack.
On Friday, at the entrance to Dap4ig Bay,
and not as previously reported III the battle
of dothland, a Russian submarine with two
toFpedoes blew up a German warship OF the
Deutschland" class steaming at the head
Of a German squadron, and one of our de-
stroyers rammed a German submarine at
tempting to approach our w~arshlps, the sub
marine failing to re-appear on the surface.
Our destroyer suffered slight damage in the
collision.
The battles described in the foregoing
were apparently separated by the entire
width of the Baltic. The "Albatross" was
sunk under conditions resembling those of
the Dresden" OF Juan Fernandez. The
population of the island Of Gothland saw the
engagement, the men Of the Ostergarn light
house lying fat to escape the proiectiles.
The Swedish papers comment mildly on the
incident assuming that an apology and sx-
PLANTATION will be made by Petrograd.
Dispatches from Berlin state that accord
ing to Swedish and Danish reports the Rus
slams continued fling long after the "Alba-
tross" had entered Swedish territory. She
was hit thirty times, q lieutenant ard twenty
seven men being killed and many wounded.
One she'll entered the ships hospital killing
ten wounded and fatally wouuding the sur
geop.
Dispatches from Amsterdam state that the
German submarine . 80, which was sunk off
the mouth Of the Ems accidentally, has been
raised, only one man having lost his life,
although the vessel was thirty-six hours on
the sea bottom. She has been towed to
Emden for repairs,
A British official list shows that 1899 ships
arrived at or departed from ports in the
United Kingdom during the week ending
june 30th, and in the same period five Bril-
fish merchantmen were sunk by German
submarines, their gross tonnage being II, 1926
Fourteen fishing vessels of a total gross ton.
mage of 1897 were sunk in the same week.
1t is officially announced that Lord Fisher
has been appointed Chairman of the Inven-
tious Board, which has been formed to assis-
the Admiralty in relation to naval requiret
ments.
Mr.. Asquith has announced thesengage-
ment of his daughter. Miss Violet Asunith