Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-02
GERMANS READY
To TAKE DVINSK
Won Hindenburg's Army Only
30 Miles from the City,
London Hears.
BIG GUNS STILL ACTIVE IN WEST
Allies and Teutons Hammer Away
with Artillery in France and
ReIgium-SiIence Turks.

London, Sept. 15.-The German
| drive toward Dvinsk goes forward I'M
checked, according to the Berlin Off
cial statement issued today Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg's army has
taken 5000 prisoners in the encount-
ers of the last "a hours and forged
| ahead TO within about thirty miles of
the Dvinsk fortress.
Riga, for the time being, is I'M
threatened by direct attack. but
should Won linden burg succeed in
getting effectively astride the Petro-
grad railway further south, it would
expose the Baltic port to serious en-
veloping movement.
All the mid-Poland fighting, the Ger
mans claim, is progressing in their
favor, but the Russians are still on the
offensive in Galicia. pressing the Aus
TRANS with a vigor that recalls their
dash through Galicia in the latter par
of last winter.
Artillery Duel in West.
The artillery duel in the West as
yet has not abated and both sides
are making prodigious expenditure of
shells, leaving the public to guess
when, if at all. any general infantry
attack is coming.
Paris, Sept. 15.-Activity of artil-
lery along the front il France con-
tinues, and at some places with great
violence, according to the announce
ment made tonight by the French war
office Furthermore aviators have
thrown bombs on a railroad in posses
sion of the Germans, as well as on
certain German barracks.
Turk Batteries Siienced.
Paris, Sept. 15,-The allied fleet has
succeeded in locating Turkish bat
teries along the Asiatic shore of the
Dardanelles, according to Journal
dispatch from Athens. Observers in
captive balloon spied out the Ottoman
artillery, which was silenced by shells
from British and French guns with
the res alt that the camps of the allied
troops now are more tenable.
Advices from Mytilepe, received at
Athens, are to the effect that large
bodies of Franco-British troops are
disembarking on the Gallipoli PENN
sula. Steady progress by the allies
is reported to be causing consterna-
ton in Constantinople.
Teutons Get Important Railway.
London, Sept. 14.-By one OF those
battering offensives which, although
costly in men and munitions, invar
iably have been successful Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburs's army has at
last set foot on the Rovno-Petrograd
Railway between Wilma and Bvinsk.
The whole Austro-German forces have
been striving to gain this railway
since the fall of the Polish fortresses-
The offensive, which began toward
the end of last week, was carried on
nx-ir, cIr
and the railway on either side of the
town, while farther south the invad
ers advanced toward Wilma. The Rus
slams. before superior forces supplied
with the usual mass of artillery, were
yesterday forced back to the lake dis
trIct which the railway penetrates,
and now are making a stand there.
Austrians After Rovno.
simultaneously, the Germans push
ed their way eastward toward Slonin
and Pinsk, both of which are on roads
which join the main railway line,
while the Austrians, with whom there
are many German units, are fighting
hard 20 reach Rovno, the southern
terminus of the line.
With this railway partly in the
hands of the Germans, it is probable
| that the Russians will be compelled
to make further retirement, although
their offensive in Galicia which con-
tinues, might save them by compel1-
| ing the Germans to send reinforce
men.s to this region.
Sharp Fighting in West.
| There is no doubt of Russian sue
| cess in this district, as. following the
Austrian admission of their retire
ment, the Germans announce tonight
| that after repulsing Russian attacks
| they occupied a aNorable position
situated some kilometers west of our
| former position
| The operations in the West are
marked by the continuance of the
great artillery battle from Belgium to
! the Argonne- A duel between guns of
all ca lbcrs along the entire front now
| has been going ON almost three weeks
and in the weekend has been partic-
ulariy violent around Arras, in the
| Argonne and Champagne.