Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-22
TEUTONS FORCED
FROM CZERNOWITz
Petrograd Correspondent Says
Russians Have Captured
BukoWina Capital.
THE SLAV ARMY REORGANIzED
with Arms and Munitions Con-
tinues Forward Movement

z.
London, Jan. 5.-The Petrograd cor
respondent of the Havas Agency an
nounces that the Austrians have evac-
uated Czernowitz, Bukowina, the Rus
slams having seized all the heights
dominating the town.
Everywhere in the Stripa and Vol
hynian districts of Russia, and in
East Galicia, the Russians are on the
offensive, the official communications
from both Petrograd and Vienna re-
veal. Czernowitz, capital of Bukowi-
ma, is now the position around which
the most important fighting is in
progress. The Russian war office re-
ports that the Russians have occupied
a line of trenches northeast of Ger
nowitz and have repulSed strong coun-
ter attacks.
The Russians are Reconstructed.
The heavy attacks near CzernowitZ.
and the apparent ultimate success of
taking the city in view, only serve as
a reminder that for months the Rus
sian authorities have been declaring
that with a little more time-time in
which they could get more guns and
more provisions to their men-the
cars forces again would swoop down
upon the enemy and carry him from
his feet as they did at the beginning
of the campaign in this district
Give me munitions I've got enough
men," has been the watchword. And
while the Russian troops at the front
have been lying quietly in the trenches
the munitions factories and supply
plants have been running at full speed,
turning out hundreds and thousands of
rounds of ammunition and making
clothing and preparing food for the
winter and for the big campaign that
had been predicted
Are All Optimism Now.
Optimism now has taken the place
of the pessimism that prevailed in
Russia in the dark days of the sum-
mer. Russia again is on its feet. And
Petrograd is forecasting some disas-
trous things for any enemy that dares
to face the ears reconstructed and
healthy army this winter.
On none of the other fronts has any
change of Importance taken place The
Austrians have captured an Italian
trench near Tolmino and the Monte
negrins have recaptured Bogievac
from the Austrians, infiicting on them
severe losses.
Arrest Norwegian Consul.
London, Jan. Reuters Athens
correspondent says the Norwegian
consul at Saloniki was arrested at the
time the Austrian, German, Bulgarian
and Turkish consuls were taken into
custody on the order of the French
commander, General Sarrail.
The arrest of the Norwegian official
is said to have resulted from the dis
covery at the Austrian and German
consulates of documents duplicating
him in connection with espionage. The
Greek government, the message says,
has protested against his detention, as
well as against the arrest of Greeks
suspected of espionage
Greece Protested.
Berlin, Jan. 4-"Dispatches from So
fiia," says the Overseas News Agency,
SAY that in protesting against the
arrest at Saloniki of the Austrian,
German, Bulgarian and Turkish con-
suls, the Greek government called at
tention to the fact that Greek officers
and gendarmes were charged with the
guarding of the consulates. Greece
contends that any measures against
the central powers should have been
communicated in advance to her.
THE pretext of General Sarrail, the
French commander, that the arrest of
the consuuls was due to the attack on
-Saloniki by Teutonic aeroplanes is not
valid, inasmuch as the airmen at
tackled and damaged only the camps
of the allied troops. The entire Greek
people share the belief of the govern
ment, considering the French en-
croachment as a brutal violation of
the sovereignty of Greece
In his dispatch telling of the arrest
of the French vice consul at Sofia, Bull
garia, who had been permitted to re-
main there to assist the Dutch minis
ter charged with the care of French
interests, the correspondent of the
Tageblatt at Sofia says that when the
British vice consul heard of the arrest
of his French colleague he took refuge
with the American minister at Sofia
Lewis Einstein. The British vice con-
sui stln remains in the American min
listers rooms, adds the correspondent
whose dispatch was fled yesterday
Sewer Gas Fatal to Three