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Show MENACE TO RIGA IRE SERIOUS FOR RUSSIANS Germans May Be Able to Complete the Isolation of the Seaport and Force Its Abandonment. ARTILLERY DUEL IN THE WEST CONTINUES Allied Offensive Before Cold Weather Regarded as Probable; Italians Claim Success. ATHENS, Sept. 6, 1 p. m., via Paris, 11:25 p. m. T'ne Turkish torpedo boat destroyer Yar Hisaar has been Bunk In the Sea of Mai-raora Mai-raora by an allied submarine. LONDON, Sept. 6. 10:50 p. m The menace to Riga, an important Russian seaport in the Baltic, is becoming more serious. The Germans still hold the bridgehead at Friedrichstadt, the occupation occu-pation of which effectively cuts off Riga 's railway communication to the south, while German aircraft are active in the gulf, perhaps presaging another naval clash as part of a concerted German Ger-man movement from land and sea to complete the isolation of the city and force its abandonment by the Russians. According to an unofficial Berlin dispatch, dis-patch, received by way of Copenhagen, the Germans claim possession of tha gulf, the Russians having abandoned Dagoe. the northernmost of the three islands just outside the gulf. Today's Berlin official communication lays no claim to further progress by Field Marsha von Hindenburg from the Baltic to Grodno, but thence southward the armies of Prince Leopold and Field Marshal von Mackensen are said to be moving forward, while the Austrian official of-ficial statement, covering the battle line farther south and east, records nothing but Teutonic gains. The great artillery battle in the west goes on unabated, with the French and presumably the British the aggressors. The fact that it has continued for a fortnight unabated leads to the belief in some quarters that it may mean preparation prep-aration for an allied offensive before the approach of cold weather. The lavish use of shells by the French would seem to indicate some great undertaking, undertak-ing, but the plan is not yet apparent to the general public. FRENCH REPORT HEAVY DAMAGE ON ENEMY TRENCHES PARIS, Sept. 6 The following official communication was issued by the war office tonight: Artillery actions continue along the whole front. In the sector to th north of Arras our batteries have inflicted heavy damage on the German Ger-man trenches. In the region of Roye, in Champagne, on the Perthes -Beausejour front, in the forest of Apremo'nt and to the north of Cirey, the artillery- has been particularly spirited. In the Vofigea at Schratzmannele and at Hartmanns- Weilerkopf, a combat by means of big bombs has been carried on. On September 1, as we announced on that day, four German aeroplanes came to bombard Luneville. an open town, where there is absolutely no military installation to destroy. Our enemy brought refinement to the point where they clearly aimed at the populous sections, and selected for the execution of their operations the day and the hour of the market. mar-ket. As a consequence, the victims, unfortunately, were too numerous and were, for the most part, women and children. As a measure of reprisal, forty of our aeroplanes this morning bombarded bombard-ed the station, works and military' establishments of Sarrnruecken. The aviators noted that the results attained at-tained were considers Die. German aeroplane has been obliged to land at Calais. The avia.-torsvere avia.-torsvere taken prisoners. Enemy aeroplanes have dropped bombs on St. Die without causing either loss of life or damage. RUSSIANS REPORT BATTLES WITH TURKISH ENEMY PBTROGRAD, Sept. 6. 0.?,b p. m. The following official communication concerning the operations in the Caucasus Cau-casus was made public today: On Saturday, in the coast region, there was cannonading. Tn the direction of Olti and near Tewa the Turks opened a futile fire (Continued on Page Two.) MENACE TO RIGA 15 SII TO BE SERIOUS (Continued from Page One.) against our positions. Near the villages vil-lages of AlhJz and Kliouliga there were skirmishes between Russian and enemy patrols. In the Van region our scouts made a successful reconnoitering expedition. On the remainder of the front the situation Is unchanged. |