New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-23
German Fleet Driven from
Gulf, Petrograd
Reports.
ATTEMPT TO LAND
TROOPS DISASTROUS
Losses of Cars Forces Small
No Word from Berlin
on Fight.


munication issued to-day says:
"The German fleet has left the Gulf
of Riga.
"Our destroyers in the Black Sea
have sunk over 100 Turkish boats"
London, Aug pa dispatch to the
Central News from Petrograd says:
"The President Of the Douma has an
nounced that the Germans lost the bat
tleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga battle
The announcement of the President
Of the Douma, as sent by the CORE
spondent, follows:
"In the Riga battle the Germans lost
one super-dreadnought, the Moltke,
three cruisers and seven torpedo boats.
"The German feet has withdrawn
from Riga Bay.
"The Germans tried to make a de-
scent near Pernpvin (Pernigel, on the
east shore Of the Gulf of Riga, some
thirty-fve miles north of Riga. Four
barges crammed with soldiers took part
in the descent. They were repulsed by
the Russian troops without the CO
operation of artillery, the Germans
being exterminated and the barges
captured"
A dispatch to "The Times" from Pc
trograd confirms the announcement of
NJ. Rodzianko,
"The losses of the gallant Baltic
feet were extremely small" says the
Times" dispatch, "in no way impair
ing its efficiency. and so long as this is
preserved no serious danger can i'm
mediately threaten Petrograd."
No report on the fight has come
from German sources since the state
ment two days ago that one German
destroyer had been sunk. one beached
and one helped to port. after an out
post affair" in the Gulf of Riga, in
which three Russian destroyers had
been sunk.
The German naval attack, which was
undertaken as measure Of cooper
atom with the Teutonic land oper-
alton. in Courland and especially
against the important port of Riga
has been going on for several days.
The significance of the German with
drawal is not brought out in the Pet
rograd dispatch and no mention is
made in it of any Russian losses.
The Moltke was a battle cruiser, a
type of ship not included in the United
States navy, and one which has borne
the brunt of much of the hardest naval
fighting of the war. At the outbreak
of hostilities Germany had four such
vessels, combining the offensive power
of the battleship with the speed of the
cruiser. Three more were building.
The most famous of the original
quartet is the Goeben, now in the
Turkish navy. She was chased into
Constantinople at the outbreak Of the
war and promptly sold to Turkey. Her
German crew, remaining on board, did
much toward drawing Turkey into the
war by attacks on Russian ports and
shipping in the Black Sea. She has
been in frequent encounters, has been
badly damaged, and at last reports had
been dismantled.
The Moltke, next Of the four. was
first heard from in the raid on the
British seaports of Scarborough, Whit
bv and Hartlepool. She was in the
squadron which, when attempting TO
repeat the feat, was caught by Rear
Admiral Beatty's squadron of British
battle cruisers on the DOgger Bank
and chased back TO cover of the kiel
forts. The Blucher was sunk in this
engagement, and the Seydlitz, the third
of tho German battle cruisers, was bad.
ly damaged. She has not been heard
from since. The Moltke, so far as IS
known, escaped without serious injury
The fourth German battle cruiser:
the Won der Tam, has not appeared
curing the war, so far as ofhcial dls-
PATCHES show. She may have taken
part in the Dogger Bank affair. She
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