GERMAN ENTRY INTO RIGA GULF CHECKED.
ATTACK ON THE AALAND ISLANDS ANTICIPATED. (Received 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. A Russian official message says:—The enemy occupied Arensburg on -aturday. Their aerial and naval forces are supporting the land operations. Squadrons of enemy cruisers and torpedo-boats attempted to force the entrance to Irbe channel, to the south of Oesel Island, but our long-range guns on Oesel Island cover further movements into the Riga Gulf. Enemy torpedoboats between Oesel and Dago islands pressed back our patrol boats in the direction of Moon Sound, but our naval craft were reinforced, and compelled the enemy to retire.—(Admiralty, per Wireless.) l-euter s Stockholm correspondent says ihat the Germans are expected to attempt to seize the Aaland islands, off the Finnish coast, and effect a landing in Finland before ice forms, with a view to attacking Helsingfors.—(Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 247, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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