Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — GERMAN DRIVE ON PETROGRAD [ARTICLE]

GERMAN DRIVE ON PETROGRAD

Russian General Staff imparts News to the Public—Fleet Ready ♦ to Aid Army. ’ Petrograd. April 2(l.—German preparations to attack the northern front, supported by a German fleet, reports of which appear to be well founded,, bear out the war office warning recently issued that the enemy means to march on Petrograd. The preparations consist of the massing of troops on the Dvinsk-Riga front apd the concentration of transports, warships, and shallow draft ships in Baltic sea ports. A portion of the German fleet is reported to' have moved from Kiel to Libau. It is regarded here as extremely probable that the plan is to. cut off Petrograd from the active army. London, April 20 Reuter's Petrograd correspondent says the information concerning the preparations being made by the Germans for an attack on the Russian northern front was -made public by the Russian gene.ral staff. ' f