THE GERMANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3340, 8 September 1917, Page 3

THE GERMANS.

EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE BALTIC.

(Received September 8. 1.30 p.m.) Paris, September 7.

M. Marcel Hutin. Avriting in Le Echo de Paris, says the Russian retirement is more accentuated eastward of Riga than toAvards Fiiedrichstadt. The Germans are endeavouring to cut off communication at Esthonia, so as to become masters of the whole Baltic coastline. Paris, Sept. 7. Lo Matin states that the German lot-sos at Lens iv defending it against tue British forces, already total l(j,000, or a quarter of the number of men engaged on their side. Moreover, since August 23, there have been 35 German divisions engaged betA\een Mceken and Hollebeke, where their losses aAcraged 35,000 for each of the eight divisions engaged. Of those remaining on tho lighting line, nineteen Avere ivitlidrawn severely mtuled, eight other divisions that were suffering badly, Avere transferrod to quieter sectors. The Germans have called up the 1920 class. Youths of 17 years hfive already enlisted in eertai ndistricts in Eastern Prussia, Hesse, and Westphalia.