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Show IT1LSHST HOSTS CLOSE II 1 REM E1ES Desperate Situation Faces Radical Regime, According Accord-ing to Siberia Advices. Denekine Reports Further I Successes; Lett Attack Is Reported as Repulsed. BERLIN, Oct. 13. General von der Goltz transferred his command in the Baltic region to General von Ebcrhardt Sunday and is expected to arrive in Berlin very shortly, according ac-cording to a semiofficial statement issued hero today. PARIS, Oct. 13. Important troop movements aro occurring in the direction of Riga, according to a telegram received here from Easel Esthonian troops have left bege-wold bege-wold for Riga, 30 miles distant, and Lettish reinforcements and other Ff'tL jii'au detachme.its aro en route to Li'oau on board a transport for the purpose of joining Lettish forcos. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 13. Allied cruisers are aiding in the defense of Riga against German attacks, which for live days have been incessant in-cessant and stubborn, according to a communication issued by the Lettish Let-tish foreign office Sunday. Riga is being bombarded by the enemy. OMSK, Sunday, Oct. 0. ti:u.-siun Telegraphic Tele-graphic Agency.) A Bolshevist, wireless dispatch picked up by the intelligence office of the Siberian army declares that the situation In Bolshevist Russia never lias been so grave as at present, that novcr before has the front been so near .Moscow. The u'.Kimteh adds that anti-Bolshevist I armies arc moving; toward the heart oil Bolshevist Russia from all directions. It j says the Bolshevist organizations are disintegrating, dis-integrating, and chat even in Petrograd there are at present only 9000 members of the Bolshevist party. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 13. The situation of the Lettish troops in Riga is desperate, according to dispatches from Helsingfors. The German and Russian troops are expected ex-pected to force the passage of the Duna river, which separates the main body of Colonel -Avaloff-Bermondt's troops from the main portion of Riga, at any moment. The old town of Riga and the port have been greatly damaged, It is stated. Many civilians have been killed or wounded. TROOPS ABOUT TO BEGIN AN ADVANCE AGAINST PETROGRAD LONDON". Oct. 13. The capture of Yamburg marks the beginning of the push by troops of the Russian north western army under General Yudenltch toward (Continued on Page 8, Column 3.) HOSTS CLOSE IN 01 M EHEMIES (Continued From Pago Ono.) Fetrograd. according to a dispatch to the I'ally Mail fded on Saturday tU Libau. General . Clazenapp is reported to ha e taken four complete Bolshf vik n-giim.-nts, ij'JU other sovi-'t troop.-' and the entire s;.v!"f of the Tenth BolsnevlK division. H.s Io.-sl-s are reported to have been tweniy-sevtn tweniy-sevtn kliied and ISO wounded. Gtmeial Vladlmlroff, who was mainly Instrumental In-strumental in orai. ir.ng the oit'--!isivu. is quoted by the diapa'. h us caving l:mt the Vienna n-Russian o.'i fiis'.ve ui'd.r Colonel Avaloff-Hermondt came too la'e to .-!ni) the advance of the Russian norilnviSLcrn arm v. L.-ttish troops still liold the atern part of H:i:a. on trie riht Kink uf tho lun-a. but there is no iir.va latr than hauir-' hauir-' dav, ai.d t:i." -j-itiO!i Is ohscure. Colo-! Colo-! n-j"l Avalofi'-lH-rmoti'li's trHp have o.ci-ip.td o.ci-ip.td Thoro'iL-erg, the western p irt of ti.e city, and are hunardin potion.- tast of tho river. Nothing f .irther l:as hetn learned here retarding tho r-Mnfor'Tinrrits which, it was said, wei: lnded from Brit-Inh Brit-Inh ahips, or v.-nutii'-r istlmniun troops are coining to the aid of tao Leus. |