Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-12-12
Petrograd Claims Complete
Victory Over Teutons and
AustrianS i'm Poland.
FRENCH GUNS ARE NEAR METZ
Artillery Bombarding Arnaviiie, Only
Ten Miles AWay-Allies Retake
Observation-Disclosures British
BattIeship Blown Up
--latest Dispatches.

--latest DfSbatcHeS.
London-OfficiaI news received in
London declares that the rout of the
German and Austrian forces in Po-
land has been complete. The general
staff, however, is not yet able to give
any details of this fighting. St is now
clear that the Russian victory in Po-
land is decisive. The number of pris-
oners taken by the Russians is esti-
mated at fifty thousand
Abandon Guns and Transport
The Germans have begun a retreat
along the entire front, and in many
places the flight is a disorderly rout,
marked by the abandonment of artll-
lery, maXims and transports. Berlin
meanwhile is beginning to talk about
repulsing Russian attacks, which is a
subtle method of announcing that the
German troops are on the defensive
Germans in Bad Way.
One group of the Russian forces
letters the Austro-German army on
the Czenstochowa-Craco front, in
ficting heavy blows and capturing
guns and prisoners. Apparently an
other group of Russians are holding
at Wielun a German column which is
endeavoring to go to the rescue of the
Plock group.
The main Russian force is exclu-
sively engaged against the Plock
group, whose front is cut in halves.
Its right half is surrounded on all
sides and is vainly struggling as in an
iron wise and striving to break through
to the left wing at Lowicz. which in
turn is battling unsuccessfully-
French Guns Near Metz.
French artillery continue to bonn
hard Arnaville, only ten miles from
Metz. The development of an often
sive in Lorraine has long been expect
ed, but to what extent it may be car
ried was not indicated at the war Of
flee
From north of Verdun and south OF
Metz the German line extends in
wedge into the Verdun-Toul defenses
of the French. The two sides of the
wedge are joined in the region of
Chauvoncourt and ST. Mihiel, where
desperate fighting has occurred the
last week 1t was at ChauvOncourt
that the French suffered heavy losses
through the explosion of German
mines The French have been unable
to drive the Germans from the posi-
tions that now hold in this district
and the movement upon Arnaville is
evidently a Tightening of the circle
which the French are endeavoring to
drive about ST. Mihiel:
Allies Retake Dixmude.
The correspondent of the Daily Mail
at Dunkirk, France. telegraphs that
Dixmude has been retaken by the AL
lies. He says the French marines at
tackled the town strongly Tuesday
night and drove the Germans out of
three lines of advanced trenches. We'd
nesday they followed this up by en-
tering the town in an irresistible
charge. The enemy did not halt in
their retreat until they were seven
miles out of the town. The marines
lost three hundred men.
Another British Warshp Sinks.
The British warship Bulwark was
blown up in the Midway river off
Sheerness by an explosion in her mas
azines. Announcement of the disas
ter was made by Winston Churchill,
first lord of the admiralty, in the
House of Commons. Churchill sail
only twelve had been saved out of the
crew of 700 or 500 aboard the BulwarE.
The explosion, he said, wasi believed
to have been in an internal magazine.
Russian Troops in Servia.
The correspondent at Sofia, Bull
garia, reports that Russian troops
have arrived in Servia to assist the
Servians in fighting the Austrians-
Fifteen regiments of Russian troops
with seventy barge loads of ammuni-
ton and supplies have arrived at the
Servian town of Raduievatz," the
Times correspondent says. They
made the 500-mile trip up the Danube
from Russian territory. They will be
rushed to the front to assist the Serv-
ians."
Fleeing From Breslau.
Several thousand refugees. mostly
members of wealthy German families
in Breslau, have arrived in Munich
during the last forty-eigllt hours. They
declare that the city is in a state of
| CONSERVATION owing to the reported
approach of the Russians and all bus
| mess is at a standstill.
Congress Spent s1,116, 1888.