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Show Hun A rtillery Opens Guns on British Ships I Artillery at Riga Opens I Fire on Warships in f I Harbor. j 1 1 DESTROYERS SUNK M Battle Continues in Guli 1 1 of Finland; Russ 'jjl at Standstill. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 22. German artillery at Riga fired on British warships war-ships at the mouth of the harbor on Sunday, according to a report of the Lettish general staff, and on Monday the British ships returned the fire, shelling German positions near tbe city. Riga is being bombarded by heavy German artillery which is using gas shells. Great damage has been elone in the city and many civilians have been killed, or wound' d LONDON. Oct 22. Two Bolshevik torpedo boat destroyers were sunk in Koporla bay. Gulf of Finland, when they attempted to attack Esthonian vessels and British destroyers on (Tuesday, the admiralty announced to i day. 1 Six survivors from the Bolshevik ! j vessels were picked up. The British and Esthoniana sustained no casualizes, casual-izes, it LB I Capture of Town. HELSINGFORS, Oct 22 The cap-.ture cap-.ture of Krasnaia Gorka ont he Gulf of ! Finland, nearly opposite Kron3tadt, !by the northwestern Russian army, is announced Horn that army's head quarters today. The capture was effected ef-fected on Monday after sovere fighting. fight-ing. The battle Is still continuing Bolshevik regiments from Moscow are taking part in the defense of Pet -' rograd, the headquarters' report adds. Russ at Standstill. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 General .Yudenitch. comander of the north- i I western Russian army, seems to have been brought to a virtual standstill b Jp I ; the stubborn defense of Petrogra'd ; which is almost within sight of his men. Soviet forces are even reported as taking the offensive north of Kras-,nole Kras-,nole Selo, but details of the fighting I have not been as yet fully reported. East of Pulkovo, the Yudenitch army has encountered strong bolslu"'-j bolslu"'-j v lk columns Pulko vo is about three miles from ihe only railway line running run-ning south from Pelrograd and the mi-jportance mi-jportance of retaining control of this Iroad may explain the savage fighting in that sector Late reports state that heavier artillery is being brought up 1 I by General Yudenitch. Soviet Troops Scattered. Soviet troops reported to have been ; concentrated near Gdoff, near Lake ; Peipus, are said to have been scattered I by the anti-bolshevlki The presenc-of presenc-of this force on the leftf lank of the (Yudenitch army constituted a menace to the whole movement against Petro-grad Petro-grad and also appeared that the bol-ittevlkl bol-ittevlkl are quite strong ou the coast of Pelrograd L I tr . 1 . i . . II I the anti-bolsheviki and has not been attacked, according to tho British ad- , . MB mlralty statement. It is held that the forte? will fall immediately upon th capture of Petrograd by General Yudenitch. Yu-denitch. Official reports issued from soviet headquarters at Moscow admit the loss of Kiev but make no further mention men-tion of the claim that Orel, 120 miles south of Moscow, has been recaptured from General Uenikine's Cosaacks. AMERICAN RELIEF. LONDON, Oct. 22. The offices a' Riga of the American Relief association. associa-tion. Administration European Children's Chil-dren's Fund, were destroyed bv a high explosive shell Monday, according to la dispatch to the headquarter of the organization here. None of tne three 'officers engaged in the relief wrk was , hurt and the feeding of the children is to proceed as before. , |