The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
TREVERDUNDRN
HAS BEEN HALTED
State of Comparative Quietude
Reigns at Most Points in
the European Mar.
ITALY TO KEEP AUSTRIA BUSY
Operations Designed TO Prevent Rein
foreements Being Sent to France
Turks Helped by Weather.

London, April 14-There is an
abatement in the battle that has been
IN progress for nearly two months be-
fore Nerdun and a state of COMPARE
tive quietude reigns in all the other
war theaters- Before Versiun the in
fantry has remained inactive and only
in the sectors TO the northwest, en-
bracing Hill S04 and the front from lie
Mort Homme TO CumiereS has there
been heavy work by the artillery.
The Germans on the Lake Narocz
and Iksku1 bridgehead positions OF
the Russian front have made attempts
10 advance against the Russians after
preparatory bOmbardments- In each
instance, according TO Petrograd, they
were repulsed. Near Baranoviehi the
Russian infantry essayed al attack on
the Germans, but was driven back
On the Austro-Itaiian line the usual
commandments and infantry attacks
al various points continue
Italy Tries to Help Verdun.
Washington, April 14-An Italian
general staff statement, indicating that
operations are under way designed 10
keep Austria from Withdrawing forces
from her own southern frontier 10 aid
in the German drive against Verdun,
was made public here tonight by the
Italian embassy.
Bad Weather Helped Turks.
London, April 14.-Replying on be-
| half of the foreign Office TO a question
asked in the House of Lords concern
| ing the Turkish report that some
three thousand British dead had been
collected in front of the Turkish
trenches after the attack On the 9Th,
Baron Sandhurst, lord chamberlain,
said:
General Lake reports that our cas-
ualties were much below this figure.
He satisfied himself by a personal in
spectiOn- He also reports that the
weather was very bad, and that on the
18th there was a hurricane, accom-
panied by torrents OF rain"
German Infantry idle
London, April 13-The Germans
northwest OF Verdun evidently ara
holding in leash their infantry for
fresh attacks in their endeavors to
capture Hill 3O4 and lie Mort Homme,
key-points which are -eLaciously bar
ring their way to the fortress.
The infantry has remained idle in
their trenches while the big guns are
showering shells on the region en-
bracing the triangle formed by Hill
3O4, Esnes and lie Mort Homme Not
even sally by the Germans in this
district is reported in the latest French
official communication
Comparative quiet prevails to the
| east of the Meuse around Douaumont
/ and Vaux, where there has recently
/ been such vicious fighting. No infan-
| try attacks have been made by either
side, and the activity OF the artillery
| has been less marked than on previ-
GUS days.
Mining operations and grenade fight
ing have taken place in the Argoane
forest, during which the French cap
tured the southern edges of two cras
tiers near Les Courtes Classes.
The Germans along the Pelkelm-
Ypres road, after three attacks, inTad-
ed British trenches, but were quickly
expelled from them, while the British
successfully raided German trenches
near Richebourg L,ATone.
In the Russian theater there have
been artillery dueIs and infantry at
tacks at various places On the Aus
troItalian front the Italians have TAX
en- from the Austrians the heights
north OF Rioporals and strorg lines OF
trenches and redoubts on the southern
slopes OF Monte Carl and CHINA bono,
the Austrians suffering heavy casual
ties.
In Asiatic Turkey Petrograd reports
a continuation of the Russian advance
west of Erzerum. The Turks, however,
in the region of BitIis, took the often
sive against the invaders. but ali their
attacks were repulsed.
Verdun Attacks Continue.
London, April 1.-THE armies Of
the German crown prince around Yer
dun are still vigorously on the often
sive against the French
Having delivered an attack along
the line from LIE Mort Homme to
Cumieres, which netted them a few
small sections of French trenches on
the east of lie Mort Homme, the Ger
man commanders rested their infantry
there, but in the region of Douaumont-
Vaux, northeast of Verdun, threw
their men in large numbers against
the French trenches