Show RIGA RICA ASSAILED BY SEA AND LAND Capture of Baltic Port May MayBe MayBe Be Followed by German Advance on Petrograd London May Ia 21 Beyond Beyond reports o of ofa a naval engagement In the tile Gulf of or Riga JUga in which according to German reports the Russians lost one orie destroyer n an ci f two s gunboats an and th the Germans one destroyer destroyer Vo Ue each cach had other I damaged 5 there thero has been ben little news fio from th the fighting lighting areas This naval activity In th the Gulf Cult of ot Riga where th time the I Russians apparently have havo only small craft clatt foreshadows or shadows another big German I offensive against Riga lilga and throughout the Baltic provinces With the fall Call of time the Polish fortresses Field Marshal von you now can command large larte reinforcements for tor this venture With nl Riga a assailed from sea and land in inGerman inGerman German n bands band there ma may even be bo an attempt to advance toward Petrograd Meantime however the time Germans and andAu Au Austrian following up UI their advantage tage t are arc to make the time Brest line hue untenable for COl tho tIme Russians One of their armies already js across time the railway from Brest Lit to threatening to divide the tile Russian forces at t- t sk from those the time line to the northwest n as far as Th The Russians still arc are making an or orderly or or- derly retreat doing all the damage th they can and nd except for the tIme guns and men taken t In forti fortresses esses the tho Austro Ger mans do not claim nn any large captures cap cap- tunes tures On tile the other battle fronts there have havo been no imo events of ot Importance |