The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
GERMANS CAUGHT
IN RUSSIAN TRAP
PetrOgrad Says Kaiser's Pur-
suing. Army Unable to Re-
trace Line of March.
GALIGIAR TOWNS ARE IN RUINS
Country Has Been Devastated by z
Months of Warfare-ltaIy Suffers
First Naval Loss

Petrograd July 9-In the last forty
eight hours German progress toward
Lublin and ChoIm has slackened very
appTeciably This Is entirely owing 10
the fact that the Russians have been
making another Of their periodic
stands which cost the enemy so dear
" without infiicting much loss upon
the Russians
It is evident. whatever the Germans
may say. that the grand duke has IN
fact got them into precisely the same
| positions strategically as the AustrO-
/ German armies occupied last August,
| but with the difference that the enemy
then had all the advantages Of smiling
| land, rich villages and great country
| houses throughout the line of march
/ Today the enemy has a desert raTaged
/ by twelve months of warfare, with
| roads cut up beyond all semblance TO
l anything better than wheel tracks
/ With the exception OF LembeTg, the
| Galician towns are piles Of ruins and
the villages mere heaps Of ashes
Przemysl may also be partially ex-
| cepted from this general rule. only
the fortress having been utterly de-
strOyed-
Altogether. matters continue to look
exceedingly promising for the Rus
| slams The task of feeding, TO say
nothing of supplying with ammunition,
| 100000 men 200 miles away from
their base must appan even the Ger
man organization Yet the enemy still
advances, and must continue adTane-
ing, for any backward step viii spell
! disaster.
First Italian Naval Loss.
London. July 9.-The Italian navy
| has suffered its first serious loss an
| Austrian submarine having success
| fully toTpedoed the cruiser Amalfii in
! the narrow waters of the Adriatic-
/ Most of the crew were saved. This is
the second allied warship to fail VIC
! tim to an Austrian submarine, the
French cruiser Leon Gambetta having,
earlier in the war, been caught in the
Ionian Sea
As an Offset, It is claimed a French
warship has sunk a German submar-
| inc in the Channel, while the British
admiralty announced tonight that II
was a British submarine which tor
pedoed a German warship in the Bal.
tic recently
SIaVs in Strong Position.
London, July S--By the employment
! Of strong reinfOrcements the Russians
have temporarily, at least, checked
the Austro-German advance toward
the Lublin railway, which, If success
| 1ul. would seriously imperil Warsaw.
The Russians yesterday claimed TO
have inflicted a serious defeat on the
Austro-German army in the region of
Krasnik, while the Austrians tonight
state that the battle was invigorated
by the participation OF strong Russian
reserves
So far as communications are con-
cerned the Russians now have the adj
vantage OF positions as they have q
splendid system Of railways by which
they can quickly move their troops
and guns to the threatened areas. This
battle has only just commenced, but
according to dispatches received in
Geneva from Austrian sources the
Russians have thus far had the best
Of il and since Monday have inflicted
very heavy losses on the invaders
These dispatches state that thousands
OF wounded are continually arriving
in Lemberg. PrzemysI and Jaroslau-
The much heralded German on
slaught in the West thus far has been
confined to the Woevre region, where
the army of the German crown prince
is on the offensive and making efforts
to regain the ground which it lost to
the French in April
Arras Cathedral Burns
The Germans have won some
trenches at the tip Of the wedge, but
at other points, according to French
accounts. they were repuIsed with
heavy losses
Artillery combats continue from Ar
Tas to the sea, and it is stated tonight
that as a result of the German boss-
bardment Arras is in flames and its
famous cathedral destroyed. The Ger
mans also claim to have retaken the
trenches which they lost to the British
north of Ypres yesterday However,
the fighting here appears to be desul-
tory, despite reports from Holland of
the arrival of large German reinforce
/