The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
BOTH SIDES GET
FRESH TROOPS
IN BATTLE LINE
Fight RACES With Renewed
Violence When Reinforce
mentS Arrive.
ALLIES WIN AND LOSE
London Looks for Some Decisive Re-
suits Soon-Rritish Fleet Report
ed in Baitic-Servians RepuIse
Assault on Belgrade.
--latest Dfs6akches.)

Paris.-The official communication
regarding the progress Of the battle
in Northern France says that the
French troops IN the region of Noyon
were compelled to give ground be-
before superior forces. but, having
been REINFORCED, again assumed the
offensive, the engagement being one
OF particular violence
Strike simultaneously.
London. = Almost simultaneously
the two great hammer strokes in the
battle in Northern France have fall
len and some decisive results must
be announced before long. The allies
have struck the German right wing
and the Germans on their part have
hurled themselves against the French
line between Verdun and TOul.
The commencement of these two
attacks in earnest was disclosed by
a French official statement, but little
is told of how they are progressing.
Hit the German Line Hard.
The action against the German
right is described as a very violent
general one, in which the French left
encountered an army corps composed
of troops which the Germans brought
from the center of Lorraine and the
Vosges-
The clash occurred in the district
between Tergnier and st. Quentin. so
that the French have made a consid-
eraSe advance to the northwest since
the last mention was made of this
part of their army.
Both Sides Reinforced.
London.-It was learned that addi-
tionaI British troops have reached
the scene Of the fighting in France.
They are reported to have been land
ed at Ostend and Boulogne and to be
supported by a new French army
sent north from the mobilization cen
ter in the south. It is this army upon
which the allies are now believed to
| be depending to complete the isola-
| ton of the German right and to en-
veIop the armies Of Won KIuck and
| Won Boehm.
German troops are being trans
| ported into France over the railway
line between Munich, Gladbach and
! AixIa-Chappelle, according to the
Amsterdam correspondent of Reuters
Telegram Company, who says this
fact is stated in a telegram from
| Maestricht
British in Baltic?
London.-A dispatch to the Stan
! dard from Copenhagen states that a
| fishing fleet has arrived at FaIken-
berg, Sweden, which has been in
| close proximity to a fleet of thirty
warships. They were sighted in the
! vicinity of Anholt, a Danish island in
| the Kattegat, a large arm of the
North sea, which has Sweden on the
east and Jutland on the west. The
news has caused great excitement
| here.
RepuIse Belgrade Assault.
Nish, Servia.-The Austrian forces
have again endeaEored to cross the
Danube at Belgrade and were re-
pulsed as they were on every prev
ious endeavor, the war office an.
nounced.
The Kaiser Reported I'll.
London.=From several points the
news was received that the kaiser
is suffering from a severe cold and is
under the care of the imperial ply
stefan.
Allies Capture Naval Base.
London.-A Central News dispatch
from Rome says that the Austrian
seaport of LISA, in Dalmatia, was
bombarded by a French fleet Septem
/ Der 49, Later, troops landed from
the French warships and went into
garrison British and French flags
were hoisted over the semaphore sta
ton at LISA.
Germans Command at cracow.
London.-'HThat Cracow has beer
occupied by German troops, that the
town has been put under German
military commandant and that the
Austrian civil administration has beer
displaced is the gist Of the lates
advices received here says the Pc
trograd correspondent OF the Morn
ing Post. '.All the original admins
tration of the town and all civil ofn
Gals of the Austrian government
have left and the residents are flee
ing in a panic.
KronPrinz Sank Ship