As far as one can ascertain, there is little or
no progress being made in the German attack on Riga, in spite of very strong attempts to foroe a way to that city. The latest attack, according to the well-informed Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post, writing to Thursday's paper, was directed along the coast road. Here the Germans had not only to face the frontal fire of the Russian land forces, but were attacked in flank from the sea by Russian warships. That is a great and most cheering piece of news, for it shows that the local command of this part of the Baltic is, at any rate for the time, in Russian bands. Captured German officers, we are told, express themselves with intense indignation at "the useless- ness of the German Fleet," for it was on its co-operation that they counted to enable them to make good the capture of Riga.
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