Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
BefIin'S Report Merely Deals
With Naval Battle Which Re-
\ suited in Sinking the SIava;
Petrogfad Also Silent.
TWO GERMAN TORPEDO
BOATS ARE DESTROYED
Strike Mine Fields While Rum
ming Through Moon Sound;
Slavic Capital to Be Moved
to Moscow, Is Announced.

ts" MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtHR,
1he American army transport An
TILES has been attacked and sunk by
a German submarine with the loss of
about seventy lives--the second Amer
lean vessel the Germans have torpe-
ooed during the last week and on sue
ceeding days. The other craft was a
torpedo boat destroyer which suffer
ed loss of one life and five men in
jured.
Both vessels were attacked within
the war zone. The transport sank
within five minutes after a torpedo
from an unseen submarine struck her
abreast the engine room bulkhead.
The Antilles, homeward bound, pre-
sumably from y French port, where
probably she had debarked troops
and stores, had 237 persons aboard,
among them navy and army officers
and some thirty-three enlisted men
of the army. All the officers were
saved but sixteen of the soldiers and
three of the ships officers perished.
The remainder of the dead belonged
to the crew of the transport.
The torpedo of the submarine found
Its mark against the side of the trans
port, notwithstanding the fact that
the transport was being conveyed by
vessels of the American patrol.
The officers of the army and navy
and the enlisted men on board were
returning to the United States on spe-
cial assignments or possibly invalided.
Germans Arc Silent.
Singularly reticent is the German
war office in it's latest official COM
munication with regard to the opera
ton of the German navy forces
against the Russia squadron which Is
presumed to be bottled up in Moon
sound, merely dealing with the naval
battle which resulted in the sinking
of the Russian battleship Slava. Like.
wise the most recent communication
from Petrograd gives few further de-
tails of the situation. From this lat
ter communication, however, the fact
is Cleaned that the Germans at noon
Wednesday began landing troops on
Dago island which lies directly north
Of Oesel island, after a bombardment
and that the German naval units en-
gagged in the conquest of the three isl.
ands and n attempting to destroy the
Russian fleet comprise at least ten OF
the new dreadnoughts, about ten
cruisers, not less than fifty torpedo
boat destroyers and between eight
and ten submarines. In addition a
large number of trawlers and other
auxiliaries and hydroplanes and other
aircraft are working with the enemy.
Huns Lose Torpedo Boats.
Two German torpedo boats have
been destroyed while running through
the mine field in Moon sound, accord.
ing to a PetrOgrad dispatch, and two
German trawlers have been sunk by
the fire of the Russian flotilla. That
the seriousness of the situation is
fully recognized by the Russians is
indicated by the fact that, although
such contingency had been reckon.
ed on previously but not carried out,
the Russian capital is to be moved
from Pctrograd to Moscow in the very
near future. The civil population al
ready is evacuating Reval, one of the
principal Russian ports on the Gulf
of Finland.
Artillery duels continue the princi.
pal method of warfare in the major
theaters of war.
The British and French artilleries
are still pounding the German posi-
tions before them in Belgium with the
Germans answering the fire vigorous
ly and along the Menin road, and at
Zonnebeke. Little infantry activity Is
taking place, except in the nature OF
raids.