The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
GERMANS IN new
MOVE ON PARIS
Attacks on Allies Lines in
France Indicate Another
Advance Forward.
VIOLENT ASSAULTS REPULSED
Kaiser's Soldiers Checked in Attempt
to Assume offensive-AIIies in
Favorable Position-Turkish
Defeat Removes Menace.

TaTlSs jan 6.-In series OF general
attacks on the eastern half of the Al
lies line in France the Germans made
a particularly violent assault on the
French position in the neighborhood
OF Lassigny, a town forty miles north
OF Paris, where the battle front, run
ming southwark from Belgium turns
abruptly toward the east This as
sault, tonight's official report says,
was repulsed, as well as one in the
Argonne forest, another in the vecin-
ity Of Verdun and fourth against the
height which commands Steinbach,
and forms an out fort Of Cernay Sem
heinz in Alsace.
Whether the sudden German often
sive around Lassigny marks the be-
ginning of new attempt in force to
break through toward Paris, or is
made with a view to relieving the con-
stantly increasing pressure on the
German left around St. Mihiel and in
Alsace, can be told only by the devel-
opments of the coming week. That it
is the beginning of definitely planned
series of movements, however, is not
questioned by military experts.
"The new year has opened upon q
more favorable situation for the allies
than they have known before since the
commencement of the campaign"
says report made by a military OBJ
server attached to the British army
headquarters at the front The re-
port made public today by the official
information bureau is dated January
4 and supplements similar narratives
given out at intervals during the
progress Of the war.
Turkish Menace Removed.
A complete change in the situation
in the near east may be brought about
by the Russian victory over the Turks
in the Caucasus.
If the Turkish defeat is as sweeping
as has been reported offcialIy-the
virtual destruction of two Turkish
army corps and the repuIse Of third
the Turkish menace against the Rus
SLAMS in Trans-Caucasia has been re-
moved. The loss of so many of their
best trained officers and men, 1t is
believed here, will compel the Turks
to give up any ambition they had OF
invading their enemy's territories, and
force them to concentrate on the de-
Tense of their own country.
Hard Fighting in AIsace.
London, Jan. Interest in the war
now lies chiefly in the stubborn fight
which the French and Germans are
carrying on for the roads to Cernay
and Muelhausen in Upper Alsace
The battle in that region, which has
been raging for week, is described
in Berlin dispatch as the most vio-
lent of the war. The Germans sue
ceeded in regaining one OF the
trenches which they had lost, but on
the whole the French reports appear
to show that the forces of France
maintain their advantage, for every
inch of which they had to fight, in
many cases, with the bayonet-
Along the rest of the western front |
the tide of battle continues to ebb and
flow. On either side Of Reims, partic- |
ularIy to the east of mat harassed |
city, according to reports, the French |
daily push their lines few yards for
ward, while in the Argonne, where |
more hard fighting is going on, first |
the Germans and then the French re-
lAS VI luC JULIET Gil
trenchments.
Another region in which the French !
seemingly keep nibbling away at the
German lines is in the WOevre, where |
the gains reported by them last night
and again today, when consolidated, |
must have gone far toward rendering
the Germans long occupation Of st.
Mfhiel on the Meuse less comfortable.
Russians Rout Turks.
London, Jan. 6.-Turkey apparently
has suffered one of the worst defeats
Of the war
Petrograd reports that two of the
Ottoman army corps in the Caucasus
have been defeated utterly in the dis
trict Of Sari Kamysh, Transcaucasia,
one of them surrendering, while the
remnants of the other are being pur-
sued
In addition, still another corps in
the vicinity Of Arabian is reported to
be striving desperately to find an out
let through the snow filed passes Of
the Armenian mountains to escape
from the oncoming Muscovites.