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Show Germans Plan to Attack the Russian Capital by Land and Sea. PETROGRAD, via London, April 19, 11:43 p. m. German preparations to attack, the northern front, supported by a German fleet, reports of which appear to be well founded, bear out the war office warning recently issued that the enemy means to march on Petrograd. The preparations consist of the massing of troops on the Dvinsk Riga front and the concentration of troops, warships and shallow draft ships in Baltic ports. A portion of tho German fleet is reported to have moved from Kiel to Libau. It is regarded here as extremely probable that the plan is to cut off Petrograd from the active army. The German efforts to spread discontent in the Russian army have developed an ingenious device of loading shells with copies of Chancellor von Beth-mnnn-Hollwegg's reichstag speech of March 29 and firing them into the Rus sian lines. LONDON, April 19. Reuter's" Petrograd Pe-trograd correspondent says the information infor-mation concerning the preparations being made by the Germans for an attack on the Russian northern front wag made public by the Russian general gen-eral staff. "The opinion is," says the correspondent, corre-spondent, "that the Germans contemplate contem-plate a descent In the rear of the Russian Rus-sian right flank, either at Parnau or Reval or elsewhere on the Gulf of Finland. In connection with these preparations the military authorities note the recent withdrawal of German Ger-man troops from some of the south-orn south-orn fronts, notably the line in Rumania." Ruman-ia." oo |