The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
BRITISH REPULSE
GERMAN ATTACKS
The Mass Offensive by Crown
Prince Rupprech.'s Forces
at Ypres Fails.
BAD WEATHER HALTS DRIVE
At Least a Day of Sunshine Needed
Before Resumption-Kaiser
Calls War Council

Washington, Aug. 3-While the rain
and the mOrass have served to hold
the entente allied forces in leash, pre-
venting a resumption Of the great Of
fensive of Tuesday, they have not
been effective in keeping the Ger
mans from throwing counter attacks
with large forces of men against sew
eraI newly won sectors of the front
held by the British and French troops,
nor in bringing about a cessation of
the violent artillery duel along the
entire line.
Crown Prince RuppTecht evidently
considers the British gain northeast
of Ypres the most important in Tues
days battle, for upon this territory
he had concentrated the strongest Of
his counter offensive operations in an
attempt TO regain the lost ground. His
efforts, however, have gone for
naught, the British artillery and in
fantTy fire raking the advancing
forces mercilessly, putting an end 10
the attacks and adding materially to
the already heavy casualties the Ger
mans have suffered.
Q Give AlFnGn a finance
There is no indication in either the
British or French official communica-
lions just when their combined push
again viii be started, but IL is possible
that at least a day of warm sunshine
will be necessary to dissipate the
quagmire so that the big allied guns
may be realigned and to permit the
airmen to relocate the positions Of
the enemy is holding.
Although the Teuton allies are still
advancing against the Russians in
East Galicia, Bukowina and along the
Moldayian frontier, the allied often
sive on the western front apparently
is on the nerves of the German en-
peror, whose troops before have had
to face with great losses of men and
terrain gigantic attacks by the British
| and French, covered by countless
pieces of modern artillery OF all cali
bers and ranges
1t is assumed that a war council of
the high military and naval leaders in
Germany, called by Emperor William
to meet in Brussels, had as its objec-
tive an analytical survey of the often
sive, which, if it is carried out as
planned by the allies, will prove a
menace to the holdings in Belgium,
and especially along the coast
Rain flinders Allied Drive.
Washington, Aug "A torrentiaI
rainfall and the resultant turning of
the battlefield already hard of nego-
tiatiOn at many points-into a veri-
table quagmire, almost halted during
| Wednesday great allied offensive
against the Germans in Flanders, ac-
/ cOrding to dispatches received in
| Washington today.
For the most part the day was spent
by the British and French troops in
/ consolidating positions won in Tues
days spectacular drive or in putting
! down strong German counter attacks
/ made in endeavors TO wrest from their
/ antagonists their former positions
( At two points, near Ypres the Ger
mans, using great masses of men,
were successful in their counter at
! tacks against the British, but this ad-
( vantage was offset in the Zillibeke
and User canals sectors, where re
! spectiveIy the British and French
troops advanced their lines.
Meanwhile the guns of the belliger-
ents are continuing to roar all along
the entire front in reciprocal lombard
ments preparatory to the recon-
mencement of the infantry battle
when the clouds lift and the rainfall
ceases.
The losses of the Teutons in the
fighting thus far have been extremely
heavy, the ground at various points
being covered with their dead-some
Of the killed mere school boys and
seemingly untitled physically for the
arduous trials the soldier in the pres
ent war must undergo. In addition
the British alone have taken more
than 5000 prisoners, 900 of them on
the Ypres salient.
On the southern end OF the front.
in the region Of the Aisne and on the
| Verdun sector, the Germans continue
to carry out offensive operations
against General Petain's armies. In
spite of their heavy bombardment
along the entire Aisne region, how
ever, the French in a vigorous conn
ter attack east OF Cerny again have
| made progress and taken prisoners.
Utah Is Bone Dry Now.