The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-15
british ships
NOW INVOLVED
Fired Upon by German-Rus-
sian Troops at Riga
Blockade Enforced.
POLES BEGIN BATTLE
Esthonians Also Oppose Boil
. sheviks and Germans.
Der Goltz Quits.


Copenhagen, Oct. 15.-Savage fight
Ing Is still going on in the city of
Riga between Lettish and Lithuanian
troops and the German Russian army
which entered the western part of the
city last week. Reports reaching here
state shells have fired portion of the
town and that great damage has been
done the quays and harbor. Many
civilians have been killed during the
battle.
dispatches received here state that
all the prisoners taken by the Let's
have been Bulgarians.
British warships have become in
volved in the fighting, having been
hred upon by the German Russian
forces, and an unconfirmed report de-
clares q British force has been landed
In or near the city.
blockade measures are seemingly
being rigidly enforced in the Baltic.
Six German merchant ships have been
captured by one British destroyer.
Bombed by AirpIanes.
London, Oct. 15.--The war office has
issued a report from the British mis-
sion at Helsingfors, dated Oct. 10,
which says that at that time all Brit
tsh troops in Riga had been with
drawn to the east back of the Duna
river, the bridges having been blown
UP. When the dispatch was filed the
Let's and Germano- Russians were
exchanging rifle fire across the river
and the section of the city still in the
hands Of the former was being bonn
barded with gas shells and also
Bombed by airplanes.
Esthonian armored trains had ar
rived over the Riga Pskov railway to
support the Lettish forces and were
/ replying TO the German fire. The
British mission denies assertions
made by Col. Avaloff- Bermondt to the
Eeifect that Let's and Esthonians COM
inenced hostilities on the line Of de-
Fnnarcatfon west Of Riga.
Al later .dispatch filed at Helsing-
fors Oct. IL by the British mission
sconfirms press reports that the Lett
ish government, which fled from Riga
at the approach of the Germano Rus
sion forces, had returned to the city.
Poies Capture kovno.
stockholm, Oct. 15.-The Poles have
KLegun an offensive against the Ger
Amano- Russian forces in the Baltic re-
sgion, according TO a message received
here from Riga. They are reported to
have r1ptured Kovno, sixty miles
north west Wilma. near the Cour-
land border.
Copenhagen, Oct, 15.--The Esthon-
ians have surrounded the town of
Krasno- Y Yagorka, according ~ dis
patch to the Tidende today.
(The Esthonians are engaged In
operations against the bolsheviks and
the Germans.)
Won der Goltz Resigns.
Berlin, Oct. 15.-Gen. Won der
Goltz, commander of the German
troops in the Baltic provinces, has
resigned as a result of the allies note
demanding the withdrawal of the
troops within the German frontier,
the Tages Zeitung stated today.
Gust Germans at Mitau.
London, Oct. 15.-The western Rus
sian central council has ousted the
German authorities at Mitau, replac-
ing them by a regime headed by a
Russian governor general named
Scheidemann, according to a wireless
dispatch received here from Berlin. A
state Of siege has been declared at
Mitau.
Gen. Won Eberhardt has invited the
Lithuanian government to send dele
gates to conference to be held at
Satkany and the invitation has been
accepted. the dispatch declares.
Stockholm, Oct. 1.-THE crews of
two Swedish motor ships which ar
rived at Kamar yesterday from Riga
gave an account today of the early
fighting around Riga last Saturday.
The ships were anchored in the in
let in the Duna river when the Ger
mans started their offensive, so that
the vessels were between the fight
ing lines. Warning shots were fired
by the Germans but it was quar-
ter of an hour before the motor
ships were able to get under way.
Meanwhile the Germans let fly a
shell in order to warn the British
and French destroyers in the harbor.
and soon these warcraft steamed out
ward under cover of the Lettish ar
tillery. Inside the city the Let's had
torn up the pavement and built bar
ricades using railway trains as sup
ports of these works.