Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-24


T ONDON, Aug. 2S uO:25 p. ny
L The German naval reserves in
the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic
sea, the German success in occupy
ing the fortress of Ossowetz and a
British naval bombardment of the
German naval base at Zeebrugge to-
day furnished series of news fea-
lures which temporarily diverted at
tentiou from the gravity of the is
sues growing out of the sinking Of
the White Star steamer Arabic by
German submarine,
The German version Of the Riga
battle has not yet been given out
but the definiteness of the official
report on the sinking or Gripping Of
the German battle cruiser Moltke
two other cruisers and eight tor
pcdo boats has sent wave of en-
thusiasm throughout the country and
dispellcd the depression over the
Russian retreat on land, Aside from
the loss of the German ships, the
naval engagement is regarded chiefly
important for the strategic effect
upon the land operations in the Ger
man sweep eastward toward Petro-
grad which military observers now
consider as having been checked and
possibly rreparably defeated
Russians Stili Losing.
The German ctLter Aas pressed
forward steadily until Prince Pcopold
of Bavaria is near the Russian new
line of defense but the military OBJ
servers say that the entire campaign
hinged on the vast enVelOping move
mcnt of Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg's forces in the north. They had
succeeded in pushing far beyond Riga
to Jacobstadt on the Divine, but the
Russians hold on the gulf of Riga and
Of the great naval base of Riga was a
continual menace in Won linden
burE's rear.
to the shifting Of a number Of Ger
man capital ships including the
Moltke. from the NeOrth sea to the
Baltic. with the purpose of controlling
Riga and thus protecting German
land advance on Petrograd. The re-
suit of the naval battle as CLEANED
from the official report, appears TO
have definitely defeated the German
objective, according to the observers
who saw that aside from the loss or
the ships the gulf and the naval base
of Riga are still in Russian hands
and menace Won Hindenburg's further
advance toward Petrograd
The capture by the Germans OF the
fortress Of Ossowetz gives them an
other stronghold only Grodno ana
Brest -Litovsk remaining in the cen
tral section. 1t also gives them the
main point on the railway to Bielsk
and Brest Litovsk.
BombardmCnt Details Mcagcr.
Special reports from Petrograd in
dicatc that the Russian position AT
Brest-Litovsk gradually is becoming
uu.euable and that the public Is being
prepared for its abandonment.
only meager details have been re-
cefyed concerning the British bonn
bardment of the German submarine
base at Zeebrugge and neighboring
points on the Belgian coast Berlin
renorts that forty British ships were
engaged in it. but the British ad-
miralty has made no statement. The
firing lasted several hours, the Ger
man heavy artillery answering the
British fire.
THAT there has been French naval
activity i'm the same locality is shown
in the Paris official communication,
which announces the sinking of a
German torpedo boat destroyer off
Ostend by two French torpedo boats
In the west there have been no
notable changes in the battle line.