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Show Furious Battles Raging in Russia 1 Wof'riga 1 Lettish and Lithuanians Troops and Germano-Russian Germano-Russian Army Engage in Furious Conflict i Many Civilians Killed -British Warships Involved and Force Has Been Landed in, or I Near the City Blockade Measures Are I Being Rigidly Enforced Six German Mer -I chant Ships Captured by British Destroyers. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 15. Savage I fighting is still coing on in the city of II Riga between Lettish and Lithuanian ' troops and the Germano-Russian army H which entered to within part of the W city, last week. Reports received here state that shells have fired a portion of the town rnd that great damage was being done ihe quays and harbors. Many' civilians have beea killed curing cur-ing the battle. Dispatches received here state al ihc prisoners taken by ih" Letts have been Bavarians, British warships have become In-I In-I volved in the fighting, having been lired upon by the Germano-Russian j lorces and an unconfirmed report dc-I dc-I dares a British force has been landed land-ed in, or near the city. Blockade measurt m e mmgly be : ing rigidly enforced In the Baltic, six German merchant ships having been captured by one Bntish destroyer. POLES BEGIN OFFENSIVE. 4 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 15. Tb Poles J ( have begun an offensive against the T ;eruiano-Russian forces ;n the Baltic A iriuti, m cording to a message receiv-M receiv-M (J here from Riga Th'-y an p ported KL to have captured Kovno, sixty miles K northwest of Vilna, near the Ccuriand t border. GERMANS OUSTED AT MITAU. LONDON, Tuesday. Oct. 14. The A V western Russian central council has M' ousted the G.-nnnn authorities ;)t Mi-H Mi-H lau. replacing them by a i n h ad m eu by a Russian governorsenural Bnamed Scbeidemann, according to a B wireless dispatch received here from f Berlin. A state of siege has been dc-j H clared at Mltau. VILL BLOCKADE SOVIETS. A BERLIN. Tuesday. Oct. 14. h H Kreuz Zeilung learns from "well in-( m lormed quari rs" ihc overnm al m in all probability agree to 1 hi the l i blockade of soviet itussia prop' se,! by j X the rnti nt lowers. It 1 1 ' the ROV- H.; eminent will lay down certain eoudi-! K 110ns incident to its participation and! H, "will primarily consider G?rmany's tor I A ign political Interests when reaching M a decision as to its final attitude." Free City Taken Over. t! BERLIN. Tuesday . Oct B the Associated Press.) The free clt) I of Danzig, in the capacity of tnis'ee. 3 has taken over national and state M properties within its jurisdiction. The most Important of these prop rtlt S are the imperial shipyardf ihe :un actory and the artillery works. STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, Oct. 13. The crews of two Swedish nto'.oi - ehips, which arrived at Kalmar j j terday from Riga, gae an accounl 10-j K, day of the early fighting around Rl ;a ! lasl Saturday. The .-hips w r- an-, Bhofed in the inlet in the Luna river m when the Germans started ihelr of t Hensive, so that the vessels vero be- i tween the fighting lines Wain f allots were fired by the Germans bul it was a quarter of an hour before I : the motor ships were able to get un-1 St dar way. A Meanwhile tho Germans let fly a1 S- few shells in order to warn the British Brit-ish and French destroyers in the liar- bor and Boon these war craft steam -I ed outward under cover of the Lettish Let-tish artillery Inside the city the B Letts had torn up the pavement nd built barricades, using railway trains as supports of these works |