The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
.SLAVS REPULSE
TEUTON ATTACKS
Official Statement Says Ger
man Forces Were Checked
at Many Points.
LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION
Public Interest Turning to Efforts Of
Allies to Revive Balkan League
Bulgaria Holds Key.

Petrograd, Aug. 13.-Desperate Ger
man attacks on the roads between
Chelm and Vladova have been repulsed
with heavy losses, by the Russians,
according to an official statement is
sued tonight at the headquarters OF
the general staff Attempts TO over
whelm Russia advance guards in the
Riga district also have been repulsed,
as have. attacks at several other
places on the battle line.
Bulgaria Hangs Back.
London, Aug 13.-The situation in
Poland and the Balkan provinces
changes little from day. to day and
public interest is being turned to the
Near East, where the diplomats OF
the quadruple entente powers are en-
deavoring to revive the Balkan league
and bring all the Balkan states over to
their side and aid the armies OF the
allies which are battling against the
Turks on the GallipoI peninsula and
in the Caucasus
The diplomats of all the belliger-
ents for the moment are concentrat-
ing their attention on Sofia, for Bull
garia holds the key to the situation
FlnoeFSo by FFtenoSs
Both the German and entente min
listers are declared to be finding their
endeavors hindered by their friends.
Greece and Serbia are unwilling TO
concede to Bulgaria the parts of Mac
edonia which are her price for Join
ing the allies, while Turkey is oppos-
ing concessions which Austria and
Germany desire to make to insure the
continued neutrality OF the Sofa gov
eminent
The Russians continue their retire
ment in Poland, but all the while they
are retarding the German advance,
which is now regaining momentum by
repeated counter-attacks and stub |
lions are favorable.
The strength of the German often /
sive has led to the assumption by /
some that the Germans are now aim
ing at Petrograd. The Germans /
would first have to capture Wilma, /
Dvinsk and Riga, all of which the /
Russians are defending with heavy /
forces.
London, Aug. IA dispatch to /
Reuters Telegram Company from
Petrograd says:
The civilians are evacuating
Dvinsk, the important railroad juno
ton southwest of Riga, on the Petro-
grad-Warsaw line. The government
institutions also are preparing to
leave
Pushing Turks Back.
London, Aug. 12.-Gen. Sir Ian Ham |
ilton reports from the DardaneIles |
that the area held bys the Entente |
Allies in the Anzac zone on the CALI /
poll peninsula has been nearly trebled. /
Five out of six guns in the Turkish /
Asiatic batteries are reported to have /
been put out of action by the French /
battleship St Louis.
The announcements were made in
an official statement given out to-
night, which read:
The latest report from Sir Ian Ham
ilton states that severe fighting con-
tinued yesterday in the Gallipoh
peninsula, mainly in the Anzac zone
and in that to the north. The posi-
lions occupied were slightly varied in
places but the general result is that
the area held at Anzac has been near
ly trebled, owing chiefly to the gal
lantry and dash of the Australian and l.
New Zealand army corps.
While to the north no further
progress has yet been made, the troops
have inflicted heavy losses on the enc
my and the French battleship St
Louis disabled several of the Turkish
batteries on the Asiatis side of the
Dardanelles. The st. Louis was or
dered inside the strait to reply to
Turkish arti1Ierymen who were hurl-
ing shells across the Dardanelles up
on the allied positions on GaIlipoIi
peninsula
Russians Still Retreat.
Geneva, Aug. ia dispatch to the
Tribune from Innsbruck, Austria,
says:
THE Russian army on the Niemen
is retreating along the whole line,
abandoning its positions. The Ger
mans are continuing their march in
the direction Of Wilma. In the south /:
srn sector of Russian Poland theater ,
there have been sanguinary engage
ments between the Vieprz and the '
Okrzejka, the Russians counter at Z
lacking to cover their retreat