The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-03
II WARsH|PS SUNK
PETRoGRAo SAYS GERMAN FLEET
WAS DEFEATED IN BATTLE
AT RIGA.
M0LTKE SENT TO BOTTOM
DreadnaUoht. Three Cruisers and
Seven Torpedo-5Oat oestroyers Lost
BY Teutons. According to Official
Petrosrad Dispatch.

London. Aug. ga dispatch to the
Central News from Petrograd says.
The president OF the duma has an
nounced that the Germans lost the
battleship Moltke. three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga bat
tie"
Sink Eleven Warships.
The announcement OF the president
OF the duma. as sent by the CORE
spondent. follows:
In the Riga bsttle the Germans
lost one superdreadnaught the
.oltke: three cruisers and seven tor
pedo boats
The German feet has Withdrawn
from Riga bay
The Germans tried 10 make a de-
scent near Pernpvin (Pernigel. on the
east shore OF the Gulf OF Riga. some
thirty-ive miles north OF Riga).
German Force Wiped Out.
-Four barges crammed with soldiers
took part in the descent They we're
repulsed by the Russian troops with
out the cooperation OF artillery. the
Germans being exterminated and the
barges captured"
An official statement from the Petro-
grad war Office also says the German
feet has left the Gulf OF Riga.
Our destroyers in the Black sea
have sunk over a hundred Turkish
boats" the stateme Odds
The statement adds that the Rus
sian land front is firm in the region
OF Riga and in the direction OF Jacob
stadt and Dvinsk. West OF Kocheyary
the Russians held in check the persist
ent offensive Of the Germans. II also
is claimed the Germans have been
held back by cOunter-attacks in the
region Of Bielsk
A dispatch TO the Times from Petro-
grad confirms the announcement OF NJ
Rodzianko. the president OF the duma.
OF a Russian victory in the Gulf OF
Riga and the sinking OF the German
battle cruiser MoItke
moItke Carried 10y Men.
The German battle cruiser Moltke
was a vessel Of $4,000 tons and car
ried in ordinary times a complement
OF l.1O7 men. She was a sister ship
OF the famous Goeben. which became
part OF the Turkish navy after the
commencement OF the war and was re-
christened Sultan Selim-
The Moltke was $50 feet long and
was armed with ten 1l-inch guns and
Il six-inch guns and IL 24-pounders.
In addition. her armament included
four 2O-inch torpedo tubes. She was
built in 1911 and had a speed OF about
twenty-eight knots.
The Moltke was in the battle with
the British feet in the North sea last
January when the German armored
cruiser Bluecher was sunk.
Visited U. S. in 1912.
In 1912 the Moltke was in the Ger
man squadron which visited the Uni
ted States 70 return the visit OF the
United States battleship squadron at
Kiel during its trip around the world.
The cost OF the Moltke was about si2.-
OO0. 900.
Berlin announced on Saturday in an
official statement the loss OF two Rus
sian gunboats and one torpedo boat
during a battle in the Gulf OF Riga In
addition il was said two Russian de-
stroyers and one other large warship
were damaged. while one German de-
stroyer was beached and another was
damaged and was escorted to port.
The Russian gunboats which were
sunk were the Sivutch and Ko-
reefs. The names OF the German
ships damaged or lost were not given.