The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
HEAVY LOSS WITH
LITTLE OR NO GAIN
Small War Engagements Take
Heavy Toll in Men
and Material.
GERMANS WIN CRONNE BATTLE
Berlin Reports Severe Defeat of
French and Repulse of Attack in
Vosges and Upper Aisace-
Fighting in East.

Fl9nrln9 IN East.
| London, Jan. 29.-AIthough no big
battles, as battles go in this war, have
been fought of late there have been
engagements in all the arenas from
| Asiatic Turkey to the English channel
| in which the losses in men and mate
rial probably have been greater in the
aggregate than in many of the battles
OF history.
| According to the French reports the
attacks the Germans delivered against
| the allied lines in Flanders, France
and AIsace on the first three days OF
the week cost the Germans 10000
men. The French admit the loss of
| 500 men near CrOnne.
! The Germans assert that they in
! fiicted a severe defeat on the French
at Cronne, and that they repulsed all
| the French attacks in the Vosges and
| upper Alsace, with heavy losses. The
| Germans are sending still more troops
| through Belgium to Ypres and La
| Bassee.
| Russia hopes Rumania, with her
| financial uositions guaranteed by the
recent London loan of S25,OOO,OOO,
soon viii send her army into the field
| and form the missing link between
Russia and Servia.
In a stubborn fight in the vicinity
| of SOchacZew, on the Bzura river, the
! Germans on Tuesday broke through
/ into the Russian trenches from which
| they were repulsed only after bayonet
| charges. At Atlanka, two miles north
! of SOcheczow, in a battle lasting thir-
" minutes, the Germans lost 500
killed.
Both Sides Claim Gains.
London, Jan. 28.-Nothing has been
heard of the military venture which it
| was reported the Germans were pre-
| pairing for Emperor Williams birthday
unless their attacks on the French at
| Ypres and at La Bassee were intended
as such. All the official accounts
agree these attacks were severe but
beyond this there is nothing in COM
mon between the accounts of the Al
lies and the Germans concerning the
fighting.
The French communication tonight
repeats the statement the Germans
were repulsed with heavy losses, while
| the Germans say the British were IN
able to recapture their positions.
Similar contradictory statements are
made regarding the fighting which is
taking place near Crayonne and per
haps in the Argonne and in the vicin-
ity of ST. Mihiel In all these cases
both sides claim the battles resulted
in their favor.
All to Face Russians Now.
London, Jan. 2S.-SeciaI dispatches
| from Petrograd this morning deal with
the new Austro-Hungarian diversion in
the Carpathians, which is intended to
counter the Russian advance through
| Bukowina.
The retirement of Count Won Berch-
told, the Austro-Hungarian minister
of foreign affairs, and the triumph of
Count Tisza, the Hungarian premier,
it is believed, led to the abandonment
of the expedition against Servia.
The German forces which were to
have been devoted to this expedition
seem to have joined the Austrians in
the new operations in the Carpathians,
for which an army numbering three
hundred thousand has been assem-
bIed
Sank kolberg, Too.
London, Jan. 28-An official state
ment issued tonight says:
IN addition to the BIuecher, the
German cruiser Kolberg is reported to
have been sunk in Sundays battle in
the North Sea. The list of casualties
shows that Engineer Capt. Charles G.
Taylor of the battle cruiser Tiger and
five stokers and three seamen of that
ship were killed. The three men killed
on the Meteor were stokers, while
most Of the wounded on the Lion, I'll
ger and Meteor were stokers.
Germans Claim Success.
London, Jan. 27..The Germans,
who are reported from Holland to be
making preparations for a big mill
tary venture to celebrate the emper-
or's birthday, already have made a
somewhat more determined effort
than usual against the French and
British lines in Flanders and North
ern France. They have delivered an
, attack on the French to the east of
Ypres and no less than five attacks
! | on the first division OF the British
force on either side Of La Bassee