Arizona republican., 1917-09-05
RUSSIANS CONTINUE
 RETREAT
Republican A. p. Leased Wire

From Riga to the east of Uxkull the Russians continue in full retreat before the Germans, those from the evacuated port making their way northeastward along the coast of the Gulf of Riga and those from Uxkull and vicinity endeavoring to reach the Riga-P Pskoff Petrograd railway line.
 Behind them the Russians left Riga partly aflame as the result of the German shells hurled into the town be- fore they departed while the shoulder ing ruins of small villages mark the path over which the other contingents have passed having been set on fire during the retreat.
 Along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Riga for a distance of about eighty miles north of the evacuated town German warships are smelling various townsi possibly with the intention of covering a landing of troops whose ob- ject would be to cut off the retreat of the Riga army or turn it's flank, there by entirely clearing the gulf shore region and giving Prince Leopold of Bavaria a base, possibly at Pernau. whence to operate overland in con- junction with the naval forces toward Reval. Russia's principal port on the Gulf of Finland, in an endeavor to seal up the Russian fleet inside the gulf.
 While the Germans were knocking at the gates of Riga from the west and southwest, hurling shells of all cali bres and loosing gas waves against the town, loyal Russian troops held them back long enough to blow up the Qualifications at the mouth of the Dvina and rage the bridges over the waterway. To the south where the defection in the ranks of the Russians apparently was greatest. the Germans according to Berlin, took some thous ands of prisoners and captured more 1 than 150 guns and large quantities o | war material.
 In the Austro- Italian theater inten. sive infantry fighting has given way | for the moment to artillery duels ot great violence. The cessation in the l fighting probably is due to a realign- | ment by the Italians of their battle | line. E
 | Meanwhile, 7 however, it is reported | that a cry of distress has been sent tC | the GermanS by. the Austrians, askine l for men tof aid in holding back tn, | Italian advance. It is said that FielC Marshal von Hindenburg has sent twt 1 Bavarian divisions to the Isonzo iron | and that the Germans also are hasten ing the manufacture of guns for tn, l protection of the Hermada heights. tn. | key to Triest.
 | Although the infantry activity ha
 come to pause. the Italians have pait | their respects to Pola, Austrias bi,
 naval base on the Adriatic by ail l Nine tons fexplosive shave beer
 dropped on warships in the roadstet
 and on military works, causing grea | damage.
 Field Marshal Haig continues t, pound the German positions in Elan
 ders with rain of shells, and anothe
 big push against the German line
 seems imminent. The infantry alons
 this front and also to the south ar,
 still being kept to their trenches, ex i! cept for raids of minor importance, bu
 which have resulted in several addi
 tional gains of ground by the British Unofficial advices say that behint
 the German lines in Flanders iron 1 Courtrai to Thorout, the civilian pop
 ulatlon has begun an evacuation, req | ilzing the nearness of another Britisl | onslaught.
 The Germans at several points alon,
 the Aisne front and in the Verdun sec l tor have again made intellectual at tempts to pierce the French line Tn. l artillery duels near Nerdun continu | unabated
 Intensive air raiding has been car
 red out by British, French and Ger ! man aviators. For the third day i,
 succession the Germans nave pompe, tContinued on Page Two)