STILL RETIRING
DROPPING BACK AT RIGA
GERMANS CAPTURE BIG GUNS.
(Received September 6, 3.30 p.m.)
LONDON, sth September. A Russian officiail report: Our retireVment along the Gulf of Riga continues. The enemy has reached the crossings of the River Aa, fifty versts north-east of. Riga ' ■ ".'.■- Our troops operating eastward of Riga retired to Segewold, Lemburg, and Da-zisubruzd.
Submarines shelled the Riga coast. Our counter-attacks drove the enemy from the heights near Slobodzeia. Admiralty, per Wireless Press.—A German official report states : Our operations at Riga have further developed. Heavy coast guns, including those of thirty centimetres calibre, were captured undamaged! ' ' '
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1917, Page 8
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