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Show RUSSIANS HAVE NOT YET ESCAPED London, Aug. 12, 4 32 a. m. The German Baltic fleet has occupied Libau, Russia, as a naval base, says the Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mall. A large force of experts is working night and day repairing, adapting and fortifying the harbor works. Libau, In the province of Courland, was occupied some time ago by German Ger-man forces. It is about sixty miles by water from the entrance to the gulf of Riga and about 140 miles by water from tho city of Riga. London, Aug. 12, 2:05 a. m. A dispatch dis-patch to Reuter's Telegram company from Petrograd says: "The civilians are evacuating Dvinsk, the important railroad junction junc-tion southwest of Riga on the Petrograd-Warsaw lino. The government institutions also are preparing to leave." London, Aug. 11, 9:45 p. m. While the Russians are fighting desperately to extricate themselves from the cordon cor-don of Austro-German troops, which is steadily pressing them more closely close-ly in Poland, their allies are working feverishly and with considerable success suc-cess to open the Dardanelles, through which they hope to pour Into RusBia much needed munitions of war. On the eastern front Kovno Is the danger point in the Russian line. The armies of Grand Duke Nicholas ap-i ap-i parently have arrested the German offensive against Riga and Dvinsk, but are. being hard pressed on the Kovno front, which the Germans are attacking with guns of all calibre, ln- eluding the famous sixteen-Inch cannon can-non 'which no fortress hitherto has been able to withstand. On the western front little has happened hap-pened beyond the usual artillery engagements. en-gagements. ; Negotiations with the Balkan states in an elfort to bring them into the war were continued, but without further developments. |