New Britain herald., 1917-10-18
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 Ships s Crew ar| Rescued by Torped| Boats
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 Sweden-Eleven Enemy Airplnn
 Were Brought Down by the Frcnc
 Petrograd, Oct 1S.-A naval bait has occurred in the Gulf of Riga b tween Russian and German battl ships, the war office announces. T1I Russian battleship Slava was sunk.
 The Slava sank as the result of b@ ing hit several times beneath tf water line. Nearly all the membej of the crew were saved by Russia torpedo boats.
 The Slava, built in 1903, was an o| type battleship of 3,516 tons, 397 fe1 in length, 76 feet beam and 26 f0d draft. Her armament consisted four 12-inch and 12 six-inch gun with "A secondary battery guns ar four torpedo tubes. Her speed WI Is knots. She had a complement 825 men.
 Three sister ships of the Slava, tl Imperator the Aleksander IT., tl Borodino and the Knyaz SuvoroI were sunk during the Russo -Japane4 war in the battle of the Sea of Japs in May, 1905. The Japanese capturl 1 a fourth sister ship, the Orel, whid is now the Japanese Iwami Tl| l Slava was stationed in the Gulf of Rid rr,l,; !, the German admiralty reported hal ] ing dropped bombs upon her in tn l gulf several hits and fire being Fl 1 ported. The announcement follows: 1 After depriving us of control 1 Irbe channel. the enemy at nigl 1 penetrated the Gulf of Riga, where , ] dawn yesterday his naval forces wei ! discovered by our patrol detachmena ] which was pressed back to Mod 1 Sound by enemy cruisers and toi 1 pedo boats. Our ships of the li1 ! Gray yhdanin and Slava and the cruisd l Bayan went out to meet the enem 1 in the Gulf of Riga and drove bad his vanguard by their fire. The soon encountered the principal enenl fighting units and engaged then Among the latter were two dread noughts of the Grosser kurfuerst typ (25,000 tons).
 During the battle the enemy adopl |, cd the tactics of firing at distarlc beyond the range of our guns, his ag tillery range being much superior t the artillery of our old ships of ,tla line.
 "1n spite of the clearly manifeste superiority of the enemy, our shin defended the entrance for consid erable time and only severe damaR caused by the fire of his dreadnought forcd us to retire into the waters o Moon Sound. As 8 result of severa hits beneath the water line the Slav; sank. Nearly all the crew were savee by our torpedo boats.
 During this engagement our coasl batteries at the entrance to the Mo01 Sound dispersed by their fire enemy torpedo boats which attempted to ap} proach our ships. Afterwards the nr4 of one of the enemy dreadnought4 was directed on these batteries and they were put out of action in a shOr@ time. SlI
 Another detachment of our naval forces in Moon Sound kept bach fierce enemy attacks from the north in the rear of our com batting forcesl These enemy attempts did not suc1 ceed"
 Berlin, via London. Got. 1S.-Thd Germans have taken 10000 prisoners' and fifty guns on Oesel island, thd war office reports.
 The Russian naval forces in the Gulf of Riga have been trapped hy the Germans, according to the an nouncement. It says German naval units are lying in the eastern portion of Kassar bay north of Oesel island and are barring the passage westward.
 Fight in the Air.
 Paris, Oct. 18.-Eleven German air, planes were shot down by the French yesterday or driven to earth in tho German lines in damaged condition. the war office reports Nancy was again attacked, this time by q squad ron of thirty machines.
 There were some victims among the civilian population.
 Artillery Active.
 LOnQOn, Oct, 1o.--I Ine hostile ar- tillery was active during the night south of the Ypres-Comines canal and in the neighborhoods of Zonnebeka and Broodseinde" says today's official report.
 London troops made a successful raid last night near Gavrelle. Several of the enemy were killed or made prisoners, Our casualties were light
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