GULF REGARDED AS LOST.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

GULF REGARDED AS LOST.

DIFFICULTIES BEFORE THE

GERMANS

(Router's Telegrams.)

(Received Oct. 17, 1.20 a.m.)

London, Oct. 16. Well-informed circles at Petrograd regard Oesel and Dago Islands and the Gulf of Riga as lost. Nevertheless., the value of Riga to the enemy will be small until Teresten, in the fairway of the gulf/is cleared, which is impracticable as long as the forts on the western peninsula, of OeseF hold out.

The Russians destroyed the fairway two years ago by sinking interned German craft laden with stone and cement.

The preparations, for the landing, which was undertaken by two divisions', were made with the minutest care.. They included a clever piece of trickery, enemy light craft succeeding in altering the position of the buoys marking the minefields between the islands and the mainland, and causing a number of Russian iscouts to run ashore.