New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26
.SLAvS Defeat
GERMAN FLEET
TWO DREADNOUGHTS DISABLED,
SIX TORPEDO BOATS SUNK,
OTHER VESSELS ROUTED.
RUSS LOSE TWO SHIPS
GERMANS ADVANCE NEAR RIGA
HAIG BREAKS THROUGH kAlS-
ER'S LINE AT YPRES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Petrograd, Oct. 23.-Two German
dreadnoughts, one cruiser, twelve tor
pedo boats and II transport we're put
out of action by the Russians in the
fighting around the islands in the Gulf
of Riga last week, but their ultimate
fate is unknown, says an official state
ment issued by the Russian admiralty.
1t has been established that at least
six German torpedo boats were sunk
in the fighting. The Russians lost
the battleship Slava and a large tor
pedo boat.
Following dispatches from Europe
Monday that the British and French
had launched a combined drive against
the Germans in Flanders, came an an.
nouncement from Secretary Baker
that the allied offensive would be
continued all winter. The war secre.
tary declared resources were In the
hands of the allies to overcome wealth
err conditions and other obstacles and
that there would be no let-up in the
fight until Prussianism was crushed.
Gen. Haig's report say a series of
successes were attained Monday along
the Ypres road and that all detectives
were taken.
gains on Dago and Oesel islands and
report that 10000 Russians have been
captured in the campaign.
Fifteen German airplanes have been
shot down in recent raids, according
to a British official statement.
Washington.-Sixty-seven lives were
lost when the army transport Antilles
went doyn Oct. II by the torpedo of a
German submarine. The official list
of casualties, cabled by Gen. Pershing,
shows sixty-seven lost, total survivors
10 and one u%naccounted for.
The casualty list shows that not all
the lost were Americans. The fire,
men, of whom many probably were
killed by the explosion, came princi-
pally from Spain and Portugal. Some
of the non-commissioned army Off.
GERS among the American troops lost
were men of foreign birth. Two OF
them were Germans by birth and now
have mothers living in Germany, one
in Berlin and the other in Oldenburg
Gen. P%ershing's report throws nc
new light on the circumstances of the
attack and SO far as is known neither
a submarine nor a torpedo was seen.
Berlin.-The Belgian post of Ostend
which is a submarine base of the Ger
mans on the North sea, has been bonn
barded from the sea-. it was announced
by the German war office, houses In
the town being damaged.
The Italians and the Austrians are
in a deadly struggle in the Trentino
with both sides piling up heavy losses
say the latest dispatches.
The London war office announces
that $50 persons in addition to the
1876 lost on the two British destroyers.
were killed when two German raiders
sank eleven ships in the North sea.
London, Oct. 20.-The Russian cap
ital has been ordered moved to Mos
COW.
Petrograd announces that at least
ninety German warships were engaged
in the battle of Moon Sound Wednes'
day and that German troops landed on
Dago island.
Two German torpedo boats have
been destroyed while running through
the mine field in Moon sound. The
civil population already is %evacuating
Reval, one of the principal Russian
ports of the Gulf of Finland.
The British and French artilleries
are still pounding the German posi-
tons before them in Belgium with the
Germans answering the fire vigorous
ly at various points, especially along
the Menin road and at Z%onnebeke
infantry activity is taking place
except in the nature of raids.
German airships raid northeastern
counties of England, but are driven of
before reaching London.