A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

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

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Admiralty, per "Wireless Press.)

London, Oct. 15

A German official message says:—. ' 'We made rapid progress in Oesel Island, repatedly overcoming the enemy. We cut. of Irbe Peninsula from the north. Our ships silenced the. land batteries. •

"We are advancing towards the east coast. The Russians are retreating in order to escape over a mole connecting Oesel Island with- Moon Island." ' " " •