Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-03-04
GERMANS SWITCH
THEIR OFFENSIVE
After a Heavy Bombardment
Teut0ns Capture a British
Trench Near Ypres.
LOSS is ADMITTED BY LONDON
Big Guns Continue Their Work in Ar
tots Region-Russians Keep Up
Attacks i'm East

London, FEB. 16.-Switching their
offensive from the Artois and Cham
payne regions in France to the, Bel
gian sector around Ypres, held by the
British, the Germans have smashed
their way by an artillery bombardment
and infantry attacks into British
front line trench over a distance of be-
tween six hundred and eight hundred
yards
Berlin gives the distance as eight
Hundred yards and the British official
communication, in admitting the gain,
asserts that it was on a front of about
six hundred yards. Berlin says that
majority of the defenders of the trench
were killed and that one officer and
several dozen of soldiers were taken
prisoners.
French Active Near Lille.
In the Artois region between Lens
and Bethune. the crater of a mine
blown up by the Germans was occu-
pied by them, while the French guns
have been busy Smelling German or
carnations in the neighborhood of the
road to Lille. The French also bonn
barded German positions north of Vic
sur-Aisne and to the northeast of Sois-
sons and in the Argonne exploded
mine and occupied the crater
In Champagne, Berlin asserts,
French infantry attempts to regain
lost positions north of Tahure were re-
pulsed. as likewise was similar at
tack in the Vosges near Ober-Sept.
Russians Still Attacking.
There has been a considerable re-
newal of activity on the Russian front
or
pet River and along the Upper and
Middle Stripa River, but no important
changes have occurred
The Italians are still using their
guns and infantry in attempts to re-
take from the Austro-Hungarians the
positions recently captured on Monte
Rombon, but all attempts have been
repulsed with heavy losses, according
to Vienna
Battling on West Front
London, Feb 15.-The whole west
ern fighting front is the scene of en-
gagements- At some points the big
guns have been roaring necessarily
for days. The infantrymen have been
engaged in hand-to-hand struggles
Grenade fighting and mining opera
lions have played prominent part in
the battles, while airmen have fought
each other above the lines and have
been cannonaded from below by anti
aircraft guns
The Germans followed up their re-
cent success in Champagne by the
capture of an additional half mile of
French trenches around Tahure, in
that district, and their artillery bonn
bardments in the neighborhood of
Massage and Navarin have been an
swered in kind by the French To the
north of scissors, around Terry and
along the Aisne, the Germans started
an infantry attack but the French put
1t down with their guns and rifles.
Many Air Fights.
To the south of the Somme the Ger
mans endeavored to surround outpost
trenches, but desisted under heavy
fire of the French In Upper Alsace
the Germans turned loose their guns
on trenches the French had recaptured
from them, but the French in the
night had evacuated them and the
Smelling did no other damage than to
shatter the emplacements
Seventeen fights in the air is the
record of Sunday reported officially
by the British along their lines in
Flanders. In addition there has been
great activity south of LaBassee
Canal. where the Germans exploded
seven mines. Heavy commandments
and an infantry attack in that section
also are reported, the Germans sue
ceeding in entering a British trench
They were driven out almost imme-
diately.
In Albania the Arzen river, which
runs westward across central Albania
and empties into the bay of Durazzo,
has been reached by the Austro-Hun-
garian vanguards, according to Vienna
The Bulgarians have occupied EIbas-
sen. an important town in central AL
bania.
There have been no important
events on the eastern front, but the
Russians il the Caucasus have occu-
pied one of the Erzerum forts and
have taken large numbers of Turkish
prisoners. Several Turkish batteries
on the Trebizond coast of the Black
sea have been silenced by the Russian
warships
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