The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
RUSSIANS GIVE
UP CzERNOHITz
Official Dispatches Tell of
Evacuation of Capital City
of BukoWina.
MADE A SKILLFUL RETREAT
Austrian Forces Too Strong, for sIav
oPPonents-czar's Troops Take
Up New Position Near the
Prussian Border.

London, Feb. ia dispatch to the
London Evening News from town on
the battle front in Galicia under date
| Of February II, says:
The Russians evacuated Czerno-
witt, the capital Of Bukowina, after
midnight in good order. They had de-
stroyed the bridges this morning.
The enemy's patrols, consisting of
Austrians, Hungarians and Germans,
arrived short time later They were
given mixed reception by the inhabi-
| tants of the city"
Russ Retreat SkiIIfuI.
A dispatch from Rumania to the
Daily Mail gives details of the Rus
sian withdrawal from Czernowitz and
| southern Bukowina as received from a
Russian staff officer, who said:
1.-The Austrian forces were over
whelmingly- superior, but skiIlful gen
eralship enabled the Russians to es-
cape without heavy losses. The Rus
slams in retreat followed the mountain
paths and back roads, which in some
places were blocked with four feet of
snow.
''The Russian rear was constantly
harassed by Austrian Tyrolese troops
on snow shoes, who gained the noun
tain SUBMITS and rolled great masses
of rocks down on the Russians and
kept up constant sharpshooting as
we'll
Russians Make Stand
In Germany the second victory of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg in East
Prussia, of which he had long made
military study, is being celebrated
with the greatest enthusiasm, and the
expectation there is that the Russians
will take long time to recover from
this blow, even should they succeed in
making a stand on the Niemen river,
as they did last autumn.
It is evident, however, that the Rus
SLAMS are far from being beaten. Ac-
cording to their reports battles are in
progress not far from the East Prus-
sian frontier and troops are being
rushed from their interior to check
the German advance, which is being
made on front some 200 miles in
extent across the provinces Of Wilma
and Grodno.
Other Austrian attachments work
ed around on the flank of the retreat
ing Russians.
Blockade of England Begins.
London, Feb. 18.-The limit set by
Germany for neutral shipping to take
measures Of safety has expired and
Germany is now expected to put into
operation its declared intention of en-
ploying submarines and mines in the
waters around the British Isles which
it has proclaimed war zone with the
object of shutting on the food sup
plies of the British people
It is announced from Berlin that
Germany's reply to the American note
of protest against such action has
been handed to the American ambassa-
dor at the German capital, but this re-
ply has not yet been received by the
State Department at Washington.
In the meantime Germany, in devel-
oping its submarine warfareJ has add
ed one more merchant ship to the list
Of vessels destroyed by sinking the
small French steamer Vile de Lille,
on Cherbourgh.
The U-16 At Work.
Paris, Feb. 1S.-An official commun-
ication issued by the ministry Of ma
Ilu0 Tells VI the yesterday DE
the German submarine U-16 of the
French steamer Vile de Lille off the
Bar Fleur Lighthouse, a short distance
east of Cherbourg, after the submarine
had ordered the crew to leave the
steamer. The statement follows:
Capture $4,000 Russians.
Berlin, Feb. 1S.-Fifty thousand |
prisoners, besides many cannon and |
machine guns, were captured by the /
Germans when the Russian Tenth |
army was defeated in the Mazurian |
Lake district, East Prussia, according |
to a statement issued at general head !
quarters here today.
Russ Army EnVeIoped.
The Russian army in Bukowina has |
been enveloped by the Austro-Hungar- |
ians between the Pruth and Sereth |
rivers, a correspondent of the Tage-
b1att says in a dispatch from Bistritz- !
One Austrian army pushing the Rus
slams from the south now has reached
Storozhinetz, while another Austrian
force having advanced eastward from |
Marmaros against Wisnicz now stands |
in the vicinity Of Czernowitz.