Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-28
Concerted Offensive on Otto
man Positions at Dardan-
Giles in Full Swing.
STRIKE TO RELIEVE RUSSIANS
Gen. Hamilton Reports Several Gains
on GallipoIi PeninsuIa-ItaIy to
Send an Army.


er effort to force the DardaneIles and
thus bring succor to the Russians,
who still are being hard pressed by the
Austro-Germans in eastern Poland and
the Baltic provinces, has been
launched, according to official an
nouncements today.
The renewed attempt against the
Turkish positions apparently is a con-
certed one in full swing. Attacks are
being made at the tip of the peninsula,
along the Krithia road, where a gain
of 200 yards on a front of 300 yards
has been made. and at Sari Bair. where
an important crest has been occupied,
according to General Sir Ian Hamilton.
commander-in-chief of the British
forces.
Turks Surprised.
ELSEWHERE" General Hamilton's re-
port says, "a fresh landing has been
successfully effected and considerable
progress made"
This landing was evidently a sur
prise to the Turks, as $50 prisoners. a
number of guns and a quantity of ma
terial are declared to have been taken
by the British forces.
1t is said, however, that putting
ashore a strong force at this point
might result in their working around
and cutting the Turkish main line of
communication with the Gallipoli pen
insula above the Bulair line across the
neck of the peninsula.
To Aid of Russia.
The forcing of the Dardanelles is
declared by military critics here to
be of the greatest Importance, as it is
the only way the allies can render i'm
mediate aid to Russia and repay her
for the great sacrifices she has made
for the common cause. In addition,
the military observers believe. sue
cess here would bring the Balkan
states definitely over to the side of
the quadruple Entente powers in the
war
Italy is understood to be prepared
to lend a hand in the Dardanelles op-
erations.
Capture German Trenches
London. Aug. 1O.-While the Austro-
German armies made fresh progress
today in their campaign against the
Russians, the conflict on the western
front took on new impetus, Sir John
French, commander of the British ex-
peditionary force. reporting a fierce
artillery engagement in which British
and French forces captured trenches
at HODGE along front of twelve hun
dred yards
The occupation of Praga, reported
by Berlin, brings to a dramatic eli
max the first phase of the drive at the
Polish capital and the region of East
ern Poland, of which Warsaw is the
dominating center. Praga is essen
tally part of the capital, with great
railway stations on the roads run
ming to Petrograd and Moscow. Few
details have been received of Grand
Duke Nicholas..s final stand at Praga,
but the indications are that the with
drawal of the Russins became impera-
tive to escape from the German lines
gradually drawing together in their
rear
Russian Territory Grows Smaller.
Warsaw is the apeX of a vast letter
V, the arms of which are the River
Narew on the north and the Vistula
on the south. The German lines
spread along these rivers are contract
ing gradually as the armies in the
north and those in the south approach
each other. The strip of territory
across which the Russians may with
draw to safer positions now is hardly
more than thirty miles across
Besides this enveloping movement
Immediately to the east of Warsaw,
Berlin reports a steady hammering at
the great Russian fortresses of Kovno
and Lomza. the chief significance of
which is their proximity to the lines
of railway communications to Petro-
grad. Novo Georgievsk is the only
place west of Warsaw at which a Rus
sian garrison remains, and its fall
seems imminent.
Can't Stop Germans.
London, Aug. 9.-The Germans can
tinue to make progress in all direc-
tions in their efforts to cut off retreat
OF the Russian army from the Polish
salient They have commenced an at
tack on the fortresses of Kovno and
Ossowetz. which are among the obsta-
cles they must overcome in order to
reach the railway running from War
saw through Wilma and Dvinsk to Pet
rograd.