GERMAN ADVANCE INTO RUSSIA
LIBAU CUT ;O¥V
EXPECTED EASY CAPTURE OF RIGA.
AMSTERDAM, Mijy 5
Ofnciai reports state that the Germans destroyed the railway, cutting off Libau "and expect to capture Riga f.tlunit much resistance. • n (Libau is a seaport and watenng-place on the Baltic, 146 miles by rail west by south of Riga. Riga after Petrograd: and Odessa, is the third seaport of BiihIt lies on the Dwina, seven-.milej lorn the mouth and 350 miles, by rail south-west of Petrograd. The population is about 350,000, nearly one half. of whom are Germans (with . Germanspeaking Jews), one-fourth Russians.and one-fourth Letts.) : . •
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20347, 6 May 1915, Page 5
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