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Show ma lii REGAPTUHE Rtf Hun Forces on Baltic Coast Severely Beat Bolshevik Command. i LONDON, March. 7. German troops on tho Baltic coast have severely se-verely defeated the Bolshevik! and havo recaptured Riga, according to a report received by tho Telegraph. ARCHANGEL, Wednesday, March 5. (By the Associated Frees.) The Bolshevik Bol-shevik artillery continues active on the Vaga and Dvina fronts, but there has been no fresh Infantry attack upon the allied forces. The American troops near Vistavka are in .good spirits, determinedly deter-minedly holding their line and patrolling tho forests. Headquarters' reports today indicate that tho Bolshevik force on the Vaga front comprises about 400Q men, with considerable artillery, including a type of four-inch field gun hitherto not used on this front. Archangel has been enthusiastic over tho display of patriotism on the part ot some new Russian t roopa who have petitioned pe-titioned their commanders for permission to advance. The mobilization of Russians Rus-sians ir Archangel is continuing. Tho Russian command lias awarded tho cross of St. George to ninety-seven soldiers of an Archangel regiment who escaped from Germany, where they wore prisoners of war, and enlisted as volunteers volun-teers against the Bolshoviki as soon as they reached home. LONDON, Thursday. March 6, via Montreal. Allied soldiers who are wounded in the lighting along the Mur-man Mur-man coast front are cared for most efficiently, ef-ficiently, according to a Reuter's dispatch. dis-patch. Dog teams and reindeers are used to take tho wounded men from the front to Kem, whore they are placed on a train which takes them to Murmansk. All the soldiers wear clothing designed by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and very few cases of frost bito havo been reported. STOCKHOLM, March 7. The Bolshevik Bol-shevik government of Russia Is preparing prepar-ing a law decreeing that alL professionals profession-als and artists must work for the government, govern-ment, according to Petrograd advices. Even authors will be mobilized, it is said, and their works will bo taken over as national property. STOCKHOLM, March 7. The Jewish press bu reau hero says that tho Yid-discho Yid-discho Morgenpost of Vienna reports that Jews are being massacred in large numbers num-bers In eastern Galicia and the Ukraine. The reports say that 400 families have been killed at Proskuroff, in the Ukraine, Uk-raine, east of Lemberg. |