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Show KAISER'S SHIPS AGAIN AT RIGA Petrograd, Aug. 19, via London, Aug. 20, 12 32 a. m That German warships again are menacing Riga, the big Russian port on the Baltic, is Indicated by an official communication communi-cation Issued here tonight. The communication com-munication says: Our warships protecting the entrance en-trance to the Gulf of Riga yesterday drew closer in after a fight, owing to the great superiority of the enemy's en-emy's fleet. r On the whole front from Riga to Janow there has been no important change. At JCovno the enemy continues con-tinues to develop vigorously the success suc-cess he already has attained He succeeded in occupying the town and advancing further, has established himself in the adjoining district, which forms the Isthmus between the Nlemen and Willia. At Ossowetz during the night of the 17th and in the course of the following day, German attacks on our positions were repulsed by our fire. On the front from Ossowetz to Brest and further south the fighting continues. con-tinues. It has been characterized in certain sectors by extreme tenacity. The enemy displayed particular obsti nacy on the 17th and 18th in his attack at-tack on our troops in the direction of Bielsk, along the Techeremkha railway rail-way and near Vladova. On the Galiclan front there has been no change. At Novogeorgievsk the enemy is attacking at-tacking the fortifications on the right bank of the Vistula and on the Narew with increasing vigor. The fighting Is of a most determined character. Our wire entanglements are covered with heaps of German dead. Nevertheless Never-theless the German artillery, which developed a maximum Intensity of fire, succeeded in silencing our guns and demolishing the fortification J the sector between tho WkraS? Narew after which our aeffnd'V spite of all their efforts, wereobTr Wkra. This enabled the GernJuS concentrate the subsequent efforuS the northern sector between Y Wkra and the Vistula. 6 Ordered to Leave. f Brindisi, Italy, Aug. 19, via Pi-? Aug. 20, 12:20 a. m -Five army 2 concentrated at Apuilia have btc I dered to be prepared to leaie foul unknown destination. i; Order Shells From Swiss, j ' Geneva, Aug. 19, via Paris, 3::t ' m- The Lausanne Gazette says ih! i the English government has rec-i? placed large orders for ammDcitle; especially shells, with Swiss fscterk supplying the raw material to fr . Swiss through France, and that Src I watchmakers by thousands jre a ) gaged in making the more dellcsre I parts of projectiles. Gerrnuj, ti? I Gazette says, likewise has plied n-1 ders for munitions with Swiss niir I facturers. I |