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Show RUSSIANS TO AID ROUMANIAN FORGES TEUTON FORCES MAY FIND STUBBORN STUB-BORN RESISTANCE BEFORE THEY ENTER BUCHAREST. Dssperatc Roumanians, Aided by Russian Rus-sian Troops, are Defending Approaches Ap-proaches to Capital, But Germans Ger-mans Continue to Advance. Paris. Desperately the Roumanians, Rouman-ians, probably aided by Russian troops, are defending the southern and western approaches to Bucharest, Bucha-rest, while the Teu'onic advance continues con-tinues to press more closely on the Roumanian capital from the northwest. north-west. The Cologne Gazette publishes an unconfirmed report that Russian troops have arrived at Bucharest to aid the hard pressed Roumanian forces. Progress for the advancing German and Austro-Hungarian armies in Wal-lachia Wal-lachia and south of Bucharest is reported re-ported by Berlin, which says the Roumanians Rou-manians continue to offer resistance. The Roumanians apparently are on or near the line of the Argeshu, as Petro-grad Petro-grad says the invaders have occupied two towns south of Bucharest and near that river. Field Marshal von Mackensen, Berlin Ber-lin records, has thrown an army across the Niaslov lowlands, which would be approaching the Argeshu in the direction of Bucharest. The Russians continue aggressively aggressive-ly their offensive against the Austro-German Austro-German lines from the Carpathians to southern Transylvania. Berlin states the Russian attacks, which are declared to have been along a front o 186 miles from Jamlonitza to Kedzl Vasarhely, resulted only in small advantages, ad-vantages, which are declared not to be commensurate with the cost in men and ammunition. Petrograd admits a repulse southwest of Vakarka in the Carpathians, but records the capture of a ridge of heights south of Kirli-baba. Kirli-baba. The fighting in Dobrudja has become be-come more intense. Bucharest announces an-nounces a violent attack along the whole front in that region. Berlin declares de-clares that the attack against the Bulgarian Bul-garian left wing in Dobrudja failed and that British "tanks" are being used by the attackers. In Galicia there also has been a reawakening re-awakening of activity. Petrograd re-cordsthat re-cordsthat an Austro-German attempt to take the offensive north of the Tar-nopol-Seloczow railway was repulsed. In Macedonia, in France and on the Austrc-Italian front there has been no important change in the situation. The artillery activity on the Sommo front in northern France and in the Trentino and Carso regions of the Italian theater is reported to be increasing. in-creasing. Both Berlin and Paris claim the repulse of attacks northwest of Monastir, in Serbia. Russians operating near Sultalna-bad Sultalna-bad (Persia) between November 25 and 27, made several attacks against the enemy, mostly at night time, on the right bank of the Karasu, and drove them in disorder across the river, inflicting heavy losses. Conspicuous success has been gained by the British in their campaign cam-paign against the Germans in German East Africa and the remnants of Major Ma-jor General Walhe's force, having lost the bulk of their artillery and machine guns and suffering probably over 50 per cent of casualties, are making eastwards for Mahenge. |