The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-17
GERMAN FORCES
 CONTROL LIBAU
 ON BALTIC SEA

 General von der Goltz. commander of the German troops in Lettland or Latyia. one of the formerly Russian Baltic provinces of which I.ibau and Riga are the chief ports, has estab- lishci virtual dictatorship in that country under the pretense that he is fighting the spread of Bolshe-
 ism among the Let's. according to h. Reuter- correspondent at Libau.
 About the midttu of April Baltic itrman troops which had been ope- latiHg in Lettland against the Russian BOlshnViki were withdrawn from the front back to Libau and. under the direction of the Baltic Baron Man. euffer executed a coup q etat, over hrowing the Lettish provisional gov r.nment and arresting the Lettish cabinet. Premier Ullmanis however.
 }advd arrest and found asylum un-
 .r the protection of British mis-
 ion which was backed by the pres rnce of a British warship in Llbau.
 The correspondent assert that this coup d' etat Undoubtedly was carried cut with the connivance of von der Goltz." It will be recalled that one Berlin newspaper has admitted that '.e movement was the resul. of an in trigue conducted by the German bar onS in the Baltic provinces who. if said, had supplied money to maintain German troops at Libau.
 Non der Goltz owes his presence in L"ttland at the head of a large force
 purely German troops to an article If the arnistice in the world war which provided that German troops should remain in Lettland until the allies gave orders to the contrary writes the correspondent. His close supporters are Baltic German barOns ho are descendants of the old Teu-
 ria knights They hold immense traC.s of land and enjoy feudal pri- ,iloges of kind that were abolished even before the French revolution. These wealthy landowners are ex- tremely tenacious of their enormous privileges which they fear to see curtailed under any democratic regi- me. and the correspondent says. they now have entered into a con spiraCy with Germanys occupying forces to overthrow democracy in Lettland and prepare the way for annexation to Germany.
 The Germans act as tho they owned the country and they show not the slightest consciousness of having been defeated in the war, says the correspondent To a British mission which protested against the disarm- ing of the Lettish troops in Libau, Non der Goltz replied that "the sit nation had been re-established" but the correspondent says there was not q word of truth in this for arms were not restored to the Let's.
 "The British mission here" writes the correspondent, "has no power to COerce the Germans into doing any thing and this can only be done thru the machinery of the armistice com mission at Spa. The German troops are making no movement against the bolsheviki between whom and them seves they keep the river Aa.
 'Von der Goltz pretends that thA Let's themselves are Bolshevili against whom he has to guard the cOuntry.'
 The Lettish premier, NJ. Ullmanis, a refugee in the house of the British military mission, told the cores pondent that England should send ammunition. food and loan to enable the Let's to raise an army. that von der Goltz should be removed and a representative of the allies put into control. This, he said, would break the conspiracy for German dominion.
 The correspondent says he was in vited by Colonel Warwick Greene head of the American mission, to at tend a conference at his house with three of the Baltic German leaders who tried hard to win the sympa- thies of the Americans in support of new cabinet which they favored, Colonel Greene informed them that he could not recommend his govern ment to recognize the situation created by the German coup d'etat so long as the Baltic troops exercised