GERMAN RETIREMENT ON THE RIGA FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 9

GERMAN RETIREMENT ON THE RIGA FRONT

OVER A DEPTH OF 15 MILES PROGRESS OF THE NAVAL OFFENSIVE London, October 25. A Russian official message states: /'The enemy has retired for fifteen milea in the Riga region, near the Pskoff high road and the Little Jagel River. Our vanguards iu eome sectors lost touch wi th the retiring enemy, who destroyed ail ■building?, roads, and bridges during the retreat. We repelled the enemy's attempts to lands troops at Tomba, south of Werder."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- • Reuter. CIVILIANS LEAVING KRONSTADT London, October '.'5. The eracuition of civilians from Kronstadt. has begun. Tho Russian Fleet is at Helsingfors, in complete readiness for guarding the entrance of the Gulf of Finland.—Reuter. TREACHERY IN THE ISLANDS. Petrograd, October '-5. ■V sailors' delegate to the J'leot Committee, sent to the Baltic Islands to watch the military operations, wns taken prisoner, but escaped. He Teports that some of the Russian troops showed a deplorable attitude. The Germans were being aided bv espionage, which, is mmpant in the islands. Tho inhabitants signalled by spreading sheets to guide the German airmen—Reuter. THE ESCAPE OF THE RUSSIAN WARSHIPS OPINIONS ON A REMARKABLE FEAT. (Rec. October 26, 6.30 p.m.) .* "» New York, October 25. The escape of the Russian Fleet from the trap in Riga Bay is regarded as a remarkable feat, as twenty second-class Russian WRrships eluded sixty German warships, tho latter including super-Dreadnoughts. Either, it is considered, the Russians out-manoeuvred the Germans or the latter had another mutiny on their hands, seriously affecting the German morale—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A GHASTLY SATURNALIA MASSACRE OF GERMANS. London, October 25. The "Daily Telegraph's" Pctvograd correspondent writes that, according to Russian newspapers, the town of Vemlen was the scene of a ghastly massacre of Germans during the Russian retreat from Riga. While the last detachments were traversing the town a rumour spread that German residents were firing at and bombing the troops from the windows. Thereupon rioters, who were mostly civilians, systematically attacked tho German houses, and exterminated every Gorman, not sparing women olid children. The rabble committed overy imaginable outrage. During these orgies the town wns under a heavy bombardment by tho Germans on tho one hand and tho Russians on the other. 'I he Germans used gas shells, and the poisonous fumes killed both the plunderers and their intended victims.—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cablo Assn. i TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH ARMOURED-CAR DIVISION. (Rec. October 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 23 M. Kerensky has telegraphed to the British Army his thanks for the invaluable and heroic work of Brigadier-General Locker Lampson's armoured-car division on the Russian south-west front, adding: "The Russians look forward with pride to their continuing co-operation until tho end of this gigantic struggle against the enemy of the whole world."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE RIVALS--KBRENSKY AND KORNILOFF (Rec. October 26, 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 1:5. The United Press correspondent at Petrograd says that If. Bourtrf, a. lead, ins revolutionary newspaper owner, and also other publishers, are organising a campaign against M. Kerensky and in favour of General Korniloff. Tho paper "Novoy Azhien" demands that the Government should negotiate with tho Contral Powers for a million Russiau 'prisoners to participate m the elections. M. Kerensky'e health has greatly improved— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.