Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-10 | Page 2 | Esthonians and Germans Clash

ESTHI1S ID GERMANS CLASH Region East of Rigu Scene of Serious Fighting; Towns Occupied. STOCKHOLM. June 9. Esthonian forces have clashed with German land-wchr land-wchr troops in tho region east of Riga, where Ietthsh detachments have also bten in serious fighting with the Germans, according to an official statement. COrF.NJiAGEX, Sunday, June . S. Kreltzbe!-g and Jakobstadt, !mporta.r.t towns soutlieast of Riga, have been occupied oc-cupied b3 Esthonian forces, while further 1 south Lithuanian troops are approaching J Dvlnsk. according to an offlciai statement, j LONTX)N. June 9. The Enhonlan gen- j eral staff considers Itself forced to start military operations ajrainst the Germans, ays a tHelsingfors dispatch to the MaiL This action ts in consequence of the attitude atti-tude of Germans In the Rica district in advancing behind the Bolshevik lines for the purpose of oceup ing the eastern j frontier of Livonia, which, with a treacherous treach-erous attack upon the Eethonlans by the iermati cavalry, under orders from General Gen-eral von der Goliz. commander of the i'Titwn forces in the Baltic region. It la said, unmasked the Germans an accom- i ph'.'es of tho Bolshevik!." A provisional government for liberated terrnon' in Russia, af :er the expected i capture of Petrograd. has been arranged for. According to a dispatch to the Mail from He Is in mors. I-rofesr Kartashe.T, non-Po-'ia'st rreirher of the cabinet headed hy a. F. Kerensky. will be tho hiad of this government and will chooso his co-ileiLgues from elements forndng the Kolehak government at Omsk and the Russian po.ltica.1 committee in Fans.