The great German battle cruiser Moltke, one of the finest ships of its kind afloat, was destroyed in the engagement.  The cruiser had a displacement of 23,000 tons and carried a crew of 1,107 men and officers.  Its main battery consisted of ten 11-inch guns, mounted in pairs in five turrets.  Its secondary battery contained twelve 6-inch guns.  Twelve 24-pounders and four torpedo tubes completed its armament.  The Moltke was 610 feet long over all, with a beam of 96-3/4 feet, and cost $12,000,000.

With the Moltke three German cruisers and seven torpedo boats, all unnamed, were destroyed.

The Russians lost the destroyer Novik of 1,260 tons, largest in the navy, and the gunboats Sivutch and Koriets, of 875 tons displacement.

The Russian victory did not end with the defeat of the German naval forces.  The invading fleet was accompanied by four enormous transports, all crammed with troops.  These soldiers attempted to make a landing on Pernau bay, on the northeastern shoulder of the Gulf of Riga.  They were permitted to land and were then attacked and exterminated by the Russian forces at that point.  The loss was estimated at 6,000 men.

WHITE STAB LINER ARABIC SUNK

The White Star liner Arabic, which sailed August 18 from Liverpool for New York, was sent to the bottom by a German torpedo August 19 off Fastnet on the south coast of Ireland, not far from the point at which the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.

Out of 429 persons aboard including crew, 39 lost their lives.  Two Americans perished—­Mrs. Josephine Bruguiere, widow of Emil Bruguiere, California millionaire banker, and Dr. E. F. Wood, of Janesville, Wis.

Capt.  Finch, who commanded the steamer, gave the following graphic account of the disaster:  “We were forty-seven miles south of Galley Head at 9:30 in the morning when I perceived the steamer Dunsley in difficulty.  Going toward her, I observed a torpedo coming for my ship, but could not discern a submarine.  The torpedo struck 100 feet from the stern, making terrible havoc of the hull.  The vessel began to settle immediately and sank in about eight minutes.

“My order from the bridge about getting the boats launched was promptly obeyed.  Two boats capsized.  We had taken every precaution while in the danger zone.  There were plenty of life-belts on deck and the boats were ready for immediate launching.  The officers and crew behaved excellently and did everything possible in the circumstances, getting people into the boats and picking up those in the sea.

“I was the last to leave, taking the plunge into the sea as the ship was going down.  After being in the water some time I was taken aboard a raft, to which I had assisted two men and women.

“If the submarine had given me a little more time, I am satisfied I could have saved everybody.”

The Arabic’s tonnage was 15,201 gross.  It was 600 feet long, 65 feet beam and 47 feet in depth.  It was built at Belfast in 1903 by Harland & Wolff.