Show GERMANS NS G MAY Y YET MEET M T SETBACK CK AT RIGA RIG RUSSIA'S GREAT NAVAL BASE ON OJ J BALTIC I I D railway station at nt Ri Riga a a structure rc t typical of or the time public buil buildings ings in the cit city and fortress fortress fort fort- r ress ss which winch is is now a chief object of German attack in the tho campaign 1 in Russia Tile The he German army has hns gone well beyond Riga but the predicted investment b by land and sen seems to o have been check checked cd in m part parL by I the defeat of G German naval forces in tho IO Gulf GnU 0 of Hi Riga reported 1 from frola r 4 1 4 4 J 7 e 4 i y 1 4 f I 1 r.- r. it 5 c A S. S I 5 S 'S J i A S. S i 1 m j 5 4 4 i A e Sf m t 4 S. S 4 IJ 11 T T ONDON DOX Aug 23 Following 23 Following their LO 1 J recent long chain of successes broken only b by the tIme naval na check In the Gulf Gult of or Riga the Germans are expected to attempt the tho speedy capture of or Riga TIlsa Russia's great port and naval na base on the Baltic Their armies already alread have ha time the city almost surrounded on the lan land landside landside side an rind and the announcement o of ot its Uli cap cap- t 1 L to the time German-Austrian German forces forcE's would woul surprise few rew here I Riga I is alter after Petrograd Russia's most Important port and commercial city on the Baltic It Is the outlet for tor most of Russia's exports and Is in itself Itsel a thriving manufacturing center cen con ter tel In point of ot population It comes sixth among the cities of the czars czar's do do- minions the latest census figures ures accrediting accrediting ac nc- ac- ac crediting the elt city with over in inhabitants inhabitants in- in habitants Probably one half the time population o ot of Riga Is Ja German While th rest ot of the civil population has fled fIell into the In In- In tenor or om I Is preparing to leave Riga ia is assuming the appearance of or a city celebrating a national holiday |