The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-09
Germans Becoming Nervous as
Result of Worry Over Gen.
Haig's Delay.
WAR MACHINE KEEPING BUSY
Artillery DueIs and Night Raids on
Enemy Trenches Keep Armies
in Constant Touch.

London, June while comparative
quiet continues to reign along most OF
the Western front, the war is far from
a standstin. That great machine be-
hind the fighting forces continues to
move with never-resting energy.
Artillery duels break ont by day and
night along the various sections Of the
long battle line and there passes now
unnoticed an expenditure of shells
which two years ago would have been
regarded as little short Of marvellous
But the game OF modern war is ever
progressive one, and the miracle of
tomorrow.
Germans More Nervous.
The infantry activity lately has been
confined wholly to raids and minor
local attacks. These are conducted
mainly for the purpose Of keeping in
touch with the enemy's movements
and intentions. Both the British and
Germans have adopted these tactics
and the few hours Of darkness lately
are filled with trench marauding ex-
petitions.
The Germans appear daily to grow
more nervous and worried by the
present lulu. They are watching the
British with cetIike aIertness. The
slightest alarm in the night sets their
guns going, and many defensive bar
rage curtains have been projected use
lessly in front Of the British positions.
Some OF their airplanes also are TAX
inc 10 on in lou
over the line, endeavoring to keep in
touch with any important movement.
Wants Ne British Prisoners
The German government continues
to fill the air with wireless propa-
ganda against the British, virtually ig-
noring all the other Allies, including
the United States. The trench version
in the Arras district of Emperor Viii
liam's recent speech was to the effect
that no British prisoners should be
taken; that the Germans should hate
all English, and that if they could not
avoid taking some prisoners they were
to treat them with the greatest Sc
verify. Emperor William was at Douai
and Journal May q, and made
speeches at both places.
Keep Up Aerial Activity.
London, May 31.-The recent lulI in
the fighting has showed no effect
whatever on the British aerial often
sive, which continues day and night
with unre1enting intensity. In the last
few days there have been witnessed
some of the most desperate air bat
ties Of the entire war. One or two Of
these have been fought at the unpre-
csdented height of $4,000 feet, or more
than three and one-half miles from the
earth.
Recently there was a duel in which
a British pilot having run out OF am
munitions for his machine gun, got
close enough to his antagonist to
shoot him down with his revolver.
This incident served to recall the fact
that when the war began the only
weapons which air pilots had were pis-
tolls and cartridges.
Commenting today on the dazzling
attitudes at which many combats oc-
| cur nowadays, pilot said that when
he first went to war in 1914, he flew a
machine which took an hour and
quarter to reach 5000 feet.
That's nothing" said one of his
comrades, 'the old bus had in those
days could not reach 5000 feet at ALL"
10000 Feet in Ten Minutes.
The airplane which could not nego-
tiate 10000 feet well under ten min
utes would be scrapped quickly now.
Pressing Nearer Triest.
Washington, May 31.-The battle
front from Gorilla southwark toward
the head of the Gulf of Triest remains
the only theater where for the mo-
ment hard fighting is in progress, the
official war dispatches say. Even
| here, however, the intensity which
characterized the operations last week
is lacking.
Between Jamiano and the head of
! the Gulf of Triest the Italians again
have cut into the Austrian line and
occupied positions west Of the village
Of Medeazza, thereby bringing their
right wing closer toward Dunno and
the railway line leading toward Triest.