Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-28 | Page 1 | Teutonic Right Wing Routed in Dobrudja

TEUTONIC RIGHT WING ROUTED IN Bucharest Report Says ive Defeat Tr Was Tras as Inflicted on Invaders liz Who zo Suffered S Heavily n UtES' UtES Sept 27 Details of the great at battle on the ia iaD D B front which lasted from September 17 to September 19 and en ended eJ de- de ac- ac cor cording cordin in to General A in the tire decisive defeat of the Germans and Bul- Bul g are arc given in fl an official statement issued h by the war office rl ri ct S n 1 u. u The supreme command learned on September 17 that detachments of our forces rees had been compelled to retire belore be- be tore lore superior anem enemy forces and were falling slowly back inflicting heavy losses on the enemy Measures Measure were sere vere taken to meet the situation and a desperate desperate des des- battle batLle b began on a a. front stretching stretching stretch stretch- ing from Crom the Danube to tho the Black sea The Thc fighting opened along the thc Danube Danube Dan Dan- columns consisting ube e where enem enemy mostly of or Germans endeavored t to force This effort their wa way Into was defeated h by tho the Rumanians who iro with i repeated ba bayonet onet attack supported supported supported sup sup- ported by the fire iro of three monitors in inI inthe intire the tire river brought the tho advance to a J I standstill In two days days' fighting of at the most desperate character tho the enemy suffered I heavy losses hisses In the center he was driven from trenches which he ire m momentarily mo zoo- succeeded in penetrating by bythe bytho bytho tho the allied Rumanian Russian and Serbian Ser bl bian blan n troops Finally at 9 o'clock in the evening of or September 19 tho thu enemy onslaught reached its climax The allies by a formidable counterattack overthrew o the tho enemy's S right wing which fled The enemy losses were great grent Everywhere ro I heaps of corpses were found round and ami in front of uC one division alone rifles were picked UI up The allied aWed troops then advanced driving the tIre enemy before them