THE NAVIES
THE BATTLE OF RIGA. GALLANT RUSSIAN GUNBOAT. PETROGRAD, August 26. Five survivors of the Sivutch out of a crew of 130 have arrived at Reval. They state that the Sivutch fought a cruiser and two torpedoers for 1$ hours. The last shell from the Sivutch as she sank was fatal to one of the torpedoers, which was enveloped in flames and sank. GERMANS LOSING CRUISERS. Received 11.55 p.m., August 26th. LONDON, August 26. The "Daily News" Paris correspondent states that a Russian submarine on the 23rd sank the cruiser Augsburg, north of Dantzig. French naval experts helieve that the German cruiser Thetis was sunk in the Gulf of Riga.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 7
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111THE NAVIES Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 7
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