The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-29

Russians and Austrians Fight
Hand to Hand on the Bess-
arabianF rontier.
GROUND COVERED WITH DEAD
Attacks Were RepuIsed by Teutons,
Says Vienna Report-SIaVs Stop
Counter Attacks.

Berlin, Jan. 21.-IncreaSingly ViO-
lent fighting on the Bessarabian from
tier is announced by the Vienna war
office, but it is declared all the attacks
of superior Russian forces have been
repulsed with heavy losses to them.
The official statement from Austrian
army headquarters, as received here
today, says:
Tenacious attacks by superior Rus
sian forces at several places between
Toporoutz and Boyan were repulsed,
principally by the Budapest Honved
Division. The enemy several times
during the engagement entered our
trenches, but were each time repuIsed
in hand-to-hand fighting, with heavy
losses.
Ground Covered with Dead.
"At one place the Sixth and Thir-
tieth Honved regiments made a Yigor-
Gus counter attack The ground be-
fore the trenches is covered with
dead Russians. On the fighting ground
of certain battalions were counted as
many as eight hundred to thousand
bodies of Russians who had been
killed.
1.-The front held by Generals Pfanzer
and Baltin is under the fire of Russian
artillery
Russians Tell of Fierce Attacks.
Petrograd, Jan. 21-The official
communication issued today from gen
eral headquarters reads as follows:
I'm the region of Dvinsk, our artiI-
lery successfully bombarded an enemy
column which approached Sch1oss-
berg from the west In the middle
Stripa we stopped an attempt by weak
enemy units to approach our trenches.
Northwest of Czernowitz. in the re-
giOn Of Rarinczle, we captured the
sector of an enemy position In an
attempt to recapture the sector the
enemy made five desperate counter
attacks, all of which were repulsed
with enormous enemy losses.
Raided Anatolian Coast.
ION the Black Sea on January II
our torpedo boats raided the AnatoIian
coast, destroying 1913 sailing vessels,
seventy-three of which were loaded
with various commodities"
New Russian Offensive.
London, Jan. 2O.-After only slight
pause since the conclusion of the
New Years Battle" on the eastern
front, the Russians again have begun
a strong offensive against the Austro-
Hungarians on the Bessarabian from
tier east of Czernowitz, capital of Bu-
kowina.
Vienna had forecast that the second
phase of the battle in this region was
h. ho no
the Russians were throwing strong re-
Inducements into East Galicia.
In the initial offensive of what prob
ably will be termed the second battle,
the Russians launched with numerous
columns four attacks near ToporOutz
and Boyan, but, according to Vienna,
they were everywhere repulsed-
Both Sides Attack in Air
The Germans have attacked Russian
bases at Tarnopol, East Galicia, with
an air squadron.
Although artillery bombardments,
mining and counter mining operations
and aerial attacks continue almost ex-
clusively on the western line in
France, the Germans report the cap
ture of trenches along the User river
bombs on Metz and ArnaEilIe, doing
material damage.
Turks in Retreat.
Petrograd, Jan. 20.-The official
communication issued from general
headquarters today reads:
Caucasus: By our furious and IN
expected attack on their center, the
Turkish army was disorganized and
dislodged from a strong position over
a front of more than a hundred versts
(sixty-six miles,, extending from the
region of Lake Tortum to the region
on Charianson river north OF Melaz-
ebert, and ret-eated in the direction
of the fortified plain of Erzerum.
AT many places this retreat assum-
ed the character of a panic fight. Sew
eral Turkish units were almost ami
hilated Hundreds OF bodies cover the
route Of our offensive.
GaIician Offensive Ends
Kiev, Russia, Jan. 19.-Lutsk, the
important fortress in VoIhynia, one of
the triangle of Notifications there, is
being evacuated by the Germans, &C
cording to information obtained from