Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-15 | Page 2 | Germans use Poison Gas Against Riga

ijloifyii USE. POBOH KS ilHTBISi! Letts Recover From Panic : and Again Take the Initiative, Says Report. British Warships Are Assisting; As-sisting; Armistice Proposal Pro-posal Has Been Rejected. BERLIN, Oct. 1-1. General von . . cler Goltz has resigned from tlio ' German army as a result of the lat- '. 'est entente uotc, says the Tag'es Zcitung. con: m ualiex, oct. m. tBy the As;- :oc;;LLe'l Press.) "The Germans arc attacking at-tacking Riga with poison :ts a fid also bombarding the town with trench mortars.'' mor-tars.'' says a Lettish foreign office communication com-munication issued Monday, .- -'Great damage has been done to quays and the harbor.' the communication adds, "and there havcbeci nany civilian CLisualiies." KalliL-d by their officers after the panic 1 hat seized" them when armored cars broke through their lines west of Riga, Lett forces, reinforced by Esthonian3, have regained the initiative and have moved across the LHma river, across which they tied last week, according to advices from AYcndeti. Armistice Rejected. ;"irs of an armistice made by Colonel A vaion -Bermondt. the commander of the army of the Russian generiU government., has breij rejected, it is reported. British warships in the harbor of Riga are said to bo assisting the Letts in driving the i.rei'uiaiio-Rusian army back from the c . ; y . B-: rl :p. reports that General von dor i.!o::z, comma:: der of . German forces in the- Baltic pr.yuu es, has transferred his authority to General von Lberhardt and :s, exr ected in Berlin soon. It is an-no-.rr.o'd in Deri in that meat; tires have brf.t taken to prevent more German solders sol-ders fr-".m going to Command, the center of the t iormanu-Ktiss. mi movement. The on; Ire Kussian Han.c coast is virtually hiockauL-d. I. ON DON. Oct. 14. Lnrect news from Lt-;i via is, being delayed on account of 1 h.- disturbed state of the telegraph, i :e ports have be-u" recei ed in official i .rcit.s. hewovyr, sl'owir.g th.it the Letts a r de:er,dint: th eir posi t ions at Riga i-a-ainst the invaders spiendiiiy, wh.te the i . s: honian g vviui ,-nt has already i "a." !:ed every available armored car to -Coiisah-rabie bitterness is displayed by p e-.cs papers in Ksihoir.a in regard to the pr. ! r'.llo-.vi-d by ihe allies. These pale pa-le rs iiss-r. that the German forces in the E;:i m had been defeated last July ; r.d t ha t '. iu- -. I'-p.-un won id h-i ve been carried t a victorious; termination. L'octv Captured. T h e o f':! v o r f e n ! y a n n o u need by '': B-vshev' itr.iui General Dene-k. Dene-k. lie's nht v.-in north of Tsarttzyn, be--i vVFen ; i e Don nd the "Volga rivers, h:m i''i i.e-i ten oi;" with severe losses, it :s i .darted ir: c wireless conrii'jiiio.ue from ' iererai Ii'tn;kine received- pday. Near 1 -a in -k. the .'Gi ' h Boisiitviki reetrnent v. as wiped o'l. the litatement claims. fci.vormous amounts of booty and prisoners pris-oners to a ii": ii her nor yet en umr-rated wzth !:) n' ured at the occupation of ' 'hf-rriip ff, nor'b of Kiev. .;en--ral Dene-! Dene-! n--, t ne statement oon' inues. res jued t ' lO-e L'j" hos' j ges r:hn liad hf en eon-d-jn:i.ed bv the Eolsheviki to be shot.