The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-26
RUSSIANS PRESS
ON TO STANISLAU
GaIIcian City Now Within Range
of the Big Guns of Gen. -
Letchitsky.
FORM NEW LINE OF ADVANCE
Won Bethmers Army Now threatened
From Both sides-Itaiiaas Now
Beyond Gorilla.

Petrograd, Aug. 1.-THE capture by
the Russians of the railway station at
KrypIin, on the Stanislau-Nadvorna
railroad, was announced officially
today.
Stanislau, in GaIicia, already is
within the range of the Russian guns.
The Russian General Letchitzky, los
ing no time in following up his vic
tory at Tysmienitsa, has pushed west
wards along the railroad and north
eastward along the wagon road and in
the latter direction has approached to
within six miles of Stanislau. Stimuli
taneOusly he has announced a drive
across the Koropice river and the
formation of a new line of advance
north of the Dneister.
Hitherto General Count Won Beth
mer had enjoyed more or less protec-
ton for his right on the Tarnopol po-
sitiOn from the flooded Dneister. The
appearance of an offensive north of
the Dneister, which already has car
ried the Russians as far west as the
crossing of the railroad at Niznioff,
twenty miles east Of Stanislau, injects
an entirely new element into the stu
alton.
Italians East of Gorilla.
London, Aug. lion the Isonzo
front the Italians have continued to
throw their forces across the river
and have fought their way to the east
of the captured city of Gorilla, in adj
n 0f
have taken strong Austrian entrench-
ments near Monte San Michele and
Monte San MARITIME and also occupied
the town of Boschini, giving them a
freer hand for their operations in the
region of the Doberdo plateau and
southwark toward the Monfalcone Sec
tor. Large numbers of prisoners were
taken in the fighting.
Vienna, in admitting the loss of
GoriRia, says the evacuation followed
the repulse of new Italian attacks on
the Doberdo plateau, and that the
Strengthening of the Austrian lines
made necessary by the operation was
carried out without molestation from
the Italians. Vienna also reports that
400 Italians have been taken prison
ers in the recent fighting in this re-
gion.
Quieter on Somme Front.
Owing to the inclement weather in
France, military activity has been con-
fined principally to bombardments,
which were somewhat heavy north of
the Somme and in the Thiaumont Sec
tor near Verdun. An attempted Ger
man advance against the British line
south Of Martinpush was put down by
the fire of trench mortars and ma
chine guns, according to London.
italians Capture Gorilla.
London, Aug. 1O-The vigorous Of.
fensivs of the Entente Allies on the
French, Galician and Italian fronts is
still being rewarded with important
successes.
The capture of Gorilla by the Ital
ians seemingly is the most important
gain by the Entente Allies that has
yet been attained in their present Of
fensive, the city being the door
through which the Italians may now
pass in an endeavor to carry out theil
long cherished idea of capturing
Triest, Austria's big seaport at the
head Of the Adriatic Sea.
To the south of Tysmienftsa the
Russian advance has reached tt
Stokovoheia.
The Russian general, Letchitzky
has driven his wedge further into the
| Austro-German line near Stanislau
capturing, eight miles east of that i'm
| portant city through which the rail
road leads to Lemberg, the town o
| Tysmienitsa. Northeast of Tysmie
nitsa the Russians have crossed TIT
right bank Of the Koropice River ant
captured a number Of important DC
sitions west of Velesnioup and south
ward along the Nizinoff- MonasteI
zyka railroad, making the Russian
menace against Halicz greater.
Allies Win More On somme.
North of the Somme river il
France, the Australians have pushei
back the Germans near Pozieres tw
hundred yards over a front OF six bur
dred yards, while the French hav
driven out the Germans from a trenc
recently captured from them north @
the Hem Wood and reoccupied it. L
the Verdun sector, heavy artillery az
| tivity is in progress at Thiaumoni
Fleury, Vaux-Chapitre and Chenois
Senate Accepts Army Bill.
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