27 OCTOBER 1917, Page 2

The defeat of the Russian squadron made the enemy masters

of Moon Sound, and therefore of Moon Island. The enemy also occu- pas(' the outermost island of Dago, meeting with little or no resist. unee. Last Sunday the Germans, rapidly pressing their advantage, landed two companies on the mainland of Esthonia, near Verder, eighty miles south-west of Revel, and occupied a peninsula. They failed, however, to effect a landing at another point further north, where the coast-defence troops repelled them. The enemy have this week withdrawn their advanced posts east of Riga, in order, no doubt, to concentrate troops for their operations elsewhere.