ABSTRACT
In the Baltic, the Poles now held the Lithuanian capital of Vilna. To their north, German troops in Latvia held the port of Libau and the capital Riga. Further north in Esthonia, all Russians-both Red and White-had been ejected from the country by the Esthonian Army, who had also seized the Russian town of Pskov, south of Lake Peipus, while the Russian Northern Corps (still nominally under Esthonian command), to its north east, was now poised on the Luga river line to put the Golovin master-plan into operation, and launch a major Baltic offensive to link up with Allied forces in North Russia and Kolchak in Siberia, and thus seize Petrograd and Moscow. But to link this up to the Kotlas operation required Allied supplies, some 30,000 Russian prisoners, food for Petrograd, Finnish and Esthonian help, and British naval support. Some of these needs had been met; but more Allied supplies, Finnish & Esthonian support, and Russian prisoners had to be provided-at present, Russian prisoners in Germany were joining the pro-German Russian units in Latvia.
