ABSTRACT

In their irresistible westward march the Reds now captured one place after the other; towns and villages of Courland, familiar to people—Tuckum, Schlock, Goldingen and others—fell almost without a struggle into the hands of the Reds. Yielding to their pressure, the Baltic Volunteer force withdrew farther and farther into the interior of Courland; the Whites appeared to have been completely routed and in their retreat had already arrived before Libau, in the vicinity of the German frontier. The frontier between Riga and the civilized world of the West had been pushed far back and left people behind, lost in dark confines of the Muscovite empire. Some of the dealers confined themselves entirely to the buying of foreign money and gold coins, which some citizens had stored up "for a rainy day" and were obliged to relinquish in exchange for; or else they sold foreign money to people who had the intention of fleeing from the town to Western Europe.