Due to the outbreak of World War I, there was a pent up demand for news and Bikinas wanted to increase the publication frequency to three times a week. He convinced his old acquaintance priest Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas to move from Laižuva to Riga and help him edit "Rygos garsas". Bikinas and Tumas bought out the newspaper from Bajoras for 600 rubles and increased the publication frequency to three times a week from January to July 1915. Tumas was promised a salary of 30 rubles a month for his editorial work, but due to financial difficulties did not receive it. Bikinas edited news and political articles, while Tumas edited articles on cultural and societal matters. The circulation peaked at 13,000 copies. With the German attack in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in February 1915, Lithuanian war refugees began arriving to Riga and the newspaper organized a committee for the refugee relief. Tumas left Riga later in 1915 while Bikinas continued to edit the newspaper until 1917. The newspaper was discontinued when Riga was captured by the German Empire in early September 1917.