The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
GERMANS REPORT
SUCCESS IN WEST
French Troops Pushed Back in
the .ArgOnne by the Crown
Princes Forces.
SLAVS WIN IN EASTERN GALlCIA
Following Victory at TarnoPoi Rus
slams Continue to Drive Teutons-
Take 1900 Prisoners.

London, Sept. 1O-Ths German
erowI prince in the Argonne captured
TWO thousand prisoners, forty-eight
machine guns and sixty-four mine
-hrowers. the Berlin official statement
says. and the French, both in their
midnight report and again this after
aoon, admit that the Germans gained
l partial success, but declare that in
most instances they were thrown back
With heavy losses.
His Second Effort
This is the second effort of the Ger
nan emperor's heir to win a victory
n this region. Fighting was in prog
-ess all yesterday and throughout the
night and still was DIN on when the
asst report was issued
This doubtless is the German reply
o the artillery bombardment the Al
lies kept up fifteen days, but which
low seems to be dying down without
any infantry attacks following it, as
lad been anticipated.
SIaVs Make Better Stand.
Along the eastern front things are
moving more slowly again after the
Russian offensive N the southeast, in
which they claimed a substantial vic
5ory. had helped to liven up matters.
From the Gulf of Riga to OIita,
south of Kovno, the Germans state the
situation is unchanged.
On the whole, the Russians appear,
With fresh supplies of ammunition, to
De making a better stand. They are
aided doubtless by the rains which
are turning the roads, especially in
he region of the Pripet and its affiu-
9nts, into quagmires.
New SIav Drive.
Petrograd, Sept 1O.-An official
communication made public here an
aOunces another big success for the
Russians in Eastern GaIicia. Follow
ng their reported victory at TarnopoI
It is stated that southwest of Trem-
oowla, the 9TH and Sth, the Russians
-ook as prisoners enc hundred and
fifty officers and seven thousand men,
and the TeutOns retreated hastily to-
ward the River Strypa.
The communication adds that the
Russians captures since September 3
IN the Sereth front total 3S3 officers
men and great quantity of guns
Teutons Defeated Near TarnopoI.
Petrograd, Sept 9-Near Tarnopot
he Russians have defeated the Third
German division and the Forty-eighth
reserve division with an Austrian bri-
gade, capturing 5000 prisoners and
thirty guns, besides a quiok-frer, &C
,Ording to an official statement issued
-onight at the war office.
Russians Renew Fighting.
London, Sept 9.-Almost simultan-
sously with the announcement that
Emperor Nicholas has personally -.
placed Grand Duke Nicholas as COM
nander of the Russian forces, the
lighting along the eastern frontier, de-
spite the beginning of the autumn
-ains, has been resumed with the in
,ensity which characterized il through
out the summer on both wings in CouT-
and, in the north and in Volhynia, Po-
lola and east Galicia- In the south
he Russians are making determined
Efforts to regain the initiative, while in
he center the AustTo-Germans con-
-inue to increase their advantage.
Thus Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
and his commanders in CouTland are
still being denied their objective, the
Ovina river, while Field Marshal Won
Mackensen and the Austrian general
At the other end of the line are en-
gagged in opposing the Russian often
sive. In the center, however, Lieu
tenant General Won Echhorn and
Prince Leopold of Bavaria are pushing
forward, and according to the Berlin
report, have occupied Wolkowysk, an
important raiA-ay junction immediate
" east of Bialystok.
1t is for these railways that the Ger
mans are now fighting as when the
autumn rains turn a great part of the
country into an impossible morrass
they will need every line OF railway to
keep their armies supplied with pro
visions and munitions
Still Driving Russians.
London, Sept S--A defeat of the
Russians over front of about twenty
i've miles in the vicinity of Brody,
Eastern Galicia, is reported officially
oy the Vienna war Office tonight The
Russians everywhere evacuated the
positions they held, according to the
report, and are being pursued by the
Austro-Hungarian troops.