The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
BRITISH RETAKE
LOST TRENCHES
Germans Lose Position Near
Ypres Captured by Them
Last Month.
ATTACKS ON VERDUR RESUMED
French Troops RepuIse Violent As
sauIts BY Infantry and Artillery
-Teuton Loss Appalling.

London, March 3-The British
along the Ypres Confines canal have
reversed the victory gained over them
by the Germans, February IA, by re-
taking the 500 yards of trenches which
Germans captured at that time The
German mine galleries in the trenches
were destroyed and four officers and
176 men taken prisoner. In addition
French guns have destroyed a German
work in the region of Beuvrigens,
which lies between the Somme and
Disc rivers.
The Germans have resumed their
heavy offensive in the region of Yer
dun, with the French everywhere
strongly opposing it. While oyer most
Of the front, from the east of the
Mouse down in the Woevre region, the
German big guns have been active
around Douaumont, the Teutons
launched several infantry attacks of
extreme violence. These, the French
war office declares, were put down by
the French troops, whose fire deci-
mated the enemy ranks. LIE Mort
Homme, the Cote du Poivre and the
Douaumont sector particularly have
suffered heavy bombardments.
Fort Vaux Destroyed.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Cen
trail News says that Fort Vaux, five
miles to the northeast of Verdun, has
been destroyed by heavy mortars, &C
cording to unconfirmed German re-
ports, but that the Germans cannot ap-
proach the fort as the French are play
ing heavy artillery on the approaches.
It is added that a German battery
has been destroyed by French shells
and that the Germans have concen-
| trated 10000 men near Buy, who are
| to resume the offensive with reinforce
ments from the Argonne. Busy is
about sixteen miles to the cast of
VeTdun.
Paris March 3.-The exact figure of
, the French losses at Verdun have been
given to the committee of military af-
fairs of the chamber of deputies by
| Colonel BoucabeiIIe, chief secretary
10 General GalIeni, minister of war.
It is stated that they were not high.
The Petit Parisien says that the
| German losses to date in the Verdun
| fighting amount to between $4,000
| and 10000 and constitute about one.
third of the German electives actively
employed
Germans Attack Violently.
Paris, March German attacks OF
| great violence, both artillery and in.
fantry, have been resumed to the north
of Verdun; according to the official
statement, issued by the French wal
office tonight 1t says that further as
saults have been repulsed by the
! French troops.
Heavy Bombardment Continues.
London, March 2-The Germans il
| the battle SCARED regions OF Verdur
! continue their bombardments west OF
| the Mouse, in the region between
Malan-court and FORCES, across the
river eastward about Vaux and Dan
Loup and against French trenches il
the Woevre region, southeast of Yer
| dun
Their big offensive, however, so fa1
as infantry attacks are concerned, has
ceased, at least for the moment
Whether it will begin again or wheth
er the Germans will rest content witt
1 NAAO PO1AIS VI oAIoSO LAAOg Gam
ed is not indicated in the official re
| ports of either Berlin or Paris.
French Show Activity.
Unofficial advices from Berlin have
stated that the German plan of cam
| paign was primarily based on the bonn
be drawing up their big guns to cap
tured positions with the object o
be drawing up their big guns to ap
tureed positions with the object O
Smelling points nearer their OBJECTIVE
-Verdun
To the east of Verdun, around Pont
a-Mousson, the French have lombard
ed German positions heavily in L.
Prete wood and near Thiacourt. Ar
til1ery duels have been in progress il
Alsace. There has been no resump
ton of German attacks against the
French in the Champagne region.
British Extend Front.
While nothing of especial impoT
lance has taken place along the Brit
ISL part of the line, the effect Of thu
German offensive in the Verdun region
is shown in the frightening of thei
front in order to release the FTencl
for the reinforcement of the arm.
opposing the German advance