Show RUMA RUMANIAN IAN D IN FLIGHTS FLIGHT Teutonic Armies es Continue tto t tto to Drive Forward Along Mile 1 Front From the Danube River to Pass in the PURSUERS AT HEELS OF BEATEN BEATE RUSSIANS Desperate ate Efforts Made 1 b byr Czars Czar's Troops to Prot Protect ct Matchin latchin Bridgehead in French Repulsed RePulsed Repulsed Re Re- pulsed at Dead Man lUan Hill OTHER FRONTS I CALM CALIT T TEUTONIC armies in Rumania and along the frontier continue to drive thrive forward The Tho campaign campaign cam cam- covers erg the mile front from the Danube river rier to to Pass in tho the Carpathian and extends northward to tho time valley of the thc river The Tho heaviest t blows of tho the German armies are being delivered along alonS' tho the railroad line running northward from tram Sarat to and they have havo forced the lines of or the defenders backward to the The Tho ThoIn In Invaders in invaders invaders in- in have captured and forced the Ito Russians lans to retreat near off oft the time coast of or In attacks alone along the Transylvanian frontier Teutonic troops have driven ahead In the face lace of ot strong counterattacks counterattacks counterattacks counter counter- attacks and captured men and sev say seven en cu n machine guns Uns The They al also o have ha oc occupied occupied occupied oc- oc several eral heights au and pressed back the Russian troops north and of or the valley alley of at the river Except for a French attack on the tha new German lines on Dead Dea Man an Hill near Verdun which was leas repulsed there thora Is little activity along tho the front Jn la Prance France Minor engagements ont only are reported from the lie Russian front in Galicia and from Macedonia Russians Being Driven Diven Toward Sereth River Berlin D Dec 30 Tho Tho Russians defeated de defeated de- de In ea eastern tern are ara being Continued on Pa Page e 2 I RUMANIANS AND ANDRUSS RUSS IN FLIGHT I Teutonic Armies Advancing Along Front Front From Danube Danube Dan Dan- ube nbc to Mountains I Continued From Page e 1 driven cn toward the tile Sereth h by their pursuers pur pur- stiers who sho are pressing on closely at their rear writes rites the military critic of or If the tile O News agency ag In In vain nin did ld th attempt to hold the tue strong stron prepared position cast of Rim Rim- Sarat nik-Sarat and between the tho and rivers The country was fitted excellently for defense being covered with swamps winding winding- rivulets ponds mId and exten extensive l e lakes But Bitt again they were defeated and everywhere the battlefield bat bat- was covered cred with heaps heas of dead Russians Sarat in spit of ot a tenacious defense deren c was taken with such speed that the thc Russians succeeded d only In de destroying do- do one bridge south gouth o of the town while the most important bridges across the tho fell undamaged Into the hands of oC the conquerors The railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road station was as defended stubbornly stubborn 1 1 tn I. I h thA no u 1 V OJ last trains to depart which were crowded with fleeing Russians were hit Jilt b by shells from tho the Austro batteries The rapidly advancing troops of the central powers also extended their successes suc sue to the west of Sarat and occupied five twenty kilometers of or the length of the valley alley The vii Ail lag luge of which is If the tho crossIng crossing crossIng cross- cross Ing point of three mountain roa roads s has been lIeen reached In the the he Russians are arc i making desperate efforts to protect the I Matchin bridgehead and nd the tIle Danube swamp toward Galatz However the they thel wet again driven back b by tho the bravo brave Bulgarian and Turl Turkish ish troops On December r 23 25 5 the Russian cm- cm Issued an order attempting to belittle be belittle hc- hc little BlUe the tho successes of tile the central powers powers pow pow- ers declaring declaring- that the Rumanians hid liu had hud no modern war wal e experiences J In the battles In hi eastern and aim In not the thc Rumanians but hut tho tIle war ar experienced cd Russian arm army corps were t defeated d |