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TOTAL
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337,239
478,940
25,330,209
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ENEMY OPERATIONS IN
THE GULF OF RIGA.
RUSSIANS STRENUOUSLY
RESISTING
LONDON, Oct. 15, A Bussian official message by wire les Ly :
THE WESTERN FRONT,
THE FLINDERS MUD.
ROBBED THE TROOPS OF
GREAT VICTORY.
LONDON, Oct. 150
The details of Friday a battle in The enemy occupied Arensburg on Flanders demonstrate how the Saturday, their aerial and mayweather has robbed the troops of operations supporting the land opera-a great victory.
An officer sunnned hp what all
A squadron of enemy cruisers and ranks are saging. The mud did us torpedo bouts attempted to force the in
entrance of Irbe Channel: Our long-Owing to the mud, the troops were range guns on Cesel Island cover unable to hug the barrage in the further movonents into the Gulf of customary fashion, giving the der- Rīgu.
man machine gunners unusual op Enemy torpedo-bonts between portunities: Cavel and Duge ialah pressed back. The enemy relied little upon his our patrol boats in the direction of artillery during the assult in the Moon Sound. Our reinforced Naval forenoon upon the last of the spurs forces compelled the enemy to retire
THE GERMAN REPORT
The German official report says: We have, rapidly progressed on Deset Island, repeatedly overeaming the enemy.
We have cut off the Sworbe penis Bulu from the north
at Passchendaele, but he Pad an unprecedented number of machine- guns in the bogs below Foelcapells and Crest Farm The men plugge and struggled, but they could do nothing with their legs. held in the slime, while our "barrage passed on enabling the sapere and machine- gunners literally to spray them.
Ships silenced the land batteries.round Poelcapelle the men fought We are advancing towards the East recklessly and fiercely. The English count, the Russians retreating in and Scottish Begiments, working in order to escape over the mole con small parties, entered the ruins of meeting Oesel island to Moon island.
the village and temporarily evicted the enemy from the brewery.
They engaged in desperate bayonet wor
ALARM IN RUSSIA.
PETROGRAD, Oct. ¡among the brick heaps and repelle
The sentire Press "expresses alarmi successive counter-attacks, until the weight of numbers and the absence
at the Innding of the enemy or Oesel
island.
The Bourse festte fohits out that
the whole situation in Russia is now
extremely complicated. It speaks
of supports, forced them to give
ground.
THE BRITISH FRONT,
of the unsatisfactory state of affairs HEAVY GERMAN BOMBARDMENT
in the interior, as presenting problem hitherto insoluable.
Another bourgois newspaper, the Betch, partially attributes the latest blow to the unexampled frivolity ck the pohtical leaders."
The Socialist newspaper the Maximalists.
LONDON, Oct. 15. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hig reports:-
The enemy, in the night, heavily bombarded our position of the maiA blueridge, to the south of Broodsende
Yesterday's raid at Monchy-le-Prens yielded $5 prisoners and the infantry also killer 200 and destroyed seren dug-outs,
The South Midland Territorials soc cessfully carried out a raid, last night, the north-east of Rocaz, and killed miner of the enemy and also des troyed dug outs and took 12 prisoners.
GERMAN REPORT.
A Germen official report saya:- The English penetrated between
الاند
A BRITISH TIEW.
LONDON, Oct. 15. The Times Naval Correspondent states that the possible consequences a. the present operations with regarL to Russia's position in the Baltic littoral and the whole. Front from Petrograd to Vitebsk and Mobileff, cannot be exaggerated. Once the Islands are in the German posses sion, the shortened lines of
com. munication will immensely increase the Scarpe and the Cambrat m the threat or Revel and will give oud Cur counterattacks drove the enemy virtual command of the Baltic The German Concentration of a considerable fleet in the eastern Baltic not only threatens the Finland ports but the Russian Fleet may shortly be in grave danger. Doubt- less this contingency has occasioned M. Kerensky's stern words to the Baltic Fleet that Their hour, of j trial has arrived.
AFRENCH YISY
them out
THE ARTILLERY DUEL ON THE FRENCH FRONT,
invocR
LONDON, Oct 15
A French cogimunic On these front,
post0% artiller activity has conti cut and lively in the region
between Alles
PALIS The Toups, commenting upon.
the right of the been violent artillery
of Hill 841.
Gern
andled, the
not weke Heven
In early BI
of the Ger
bjects.
isto destroy liberty in the Gu
The Gerthone are ing a plot against Finlan
and:Cour,
FRENCE CO