Show Being Struck at Rumania Defending Forces Under Heavy Pressure Retreat Along Entire Front From Black Sea to Danube LONDON T ONDON Oct 24 On 24 On both the north and southeastern Rumanian Rumanian Ruman Human ian fronts front the sledge hammer blows I of the Teutonic allies are aTe rapidly flattening flattening flat flat- flatI I out the tile Rumanian lines Jines and forcing them back In If Field Marshal l von on Inflicted a severe re defeat upon the nuns Hum Russo Ian flank driving ing It to the Izara Murat district some som sixteen miles northwest of or Constanza the tho Black sea port captured yesterday In the center the field marshal also has made notable progress forcing his wn way Into and driving the Russian Rus Rus- sian and Rumanians Into the hills hUls to the north while along tho the Danube ho hohas hohas holias has lias drawn appreciably ne nearer cr the bridgehead 1 b by capturing the Llie Danube town of nine miles flues s southwest of ot He lic has as taken en prisoners twelve tw lve canion cannon cannon can can- non ion and two fifty machine guns tl l la a l Driving home home t the att attack eJ on qt tb the north forth General von von on J reports reports' as ns a result tho the capture of ot Pass eighteen Ig miles south of ot Kron Kronstadt on onlie the lie Rumanian side of the border and md the collapse of ot tho strong strong- resistance the tho Rumanians have been offering at I tho southern end of or Rothenthurn pat pats paes patson s son on the frontier south of t. t I On tho the northwestern Rumanian front tho the Russo Rumanian forces apparently ire holding their own Bucharest re reports reports reports re- re ports them on the offensive in the tho alle valley where several so hul hundred prisoners and ten machine guns were captured from General von on Falkenhayn's Falken- Falken hayn's troops Virtually the entire Co Constanza- Constanza a rall railway lY line in Is now In tho the hands of Field Marshal lar hal von Ion Mackensen's fl n victorious forces It appears from rom a Ru Russian sian official state state- statement ment mm ont toda today a admitting the evacuation c of ot f 1 by by the tho Russian HUl and Ru Itu- r tlc Is approximately twenty t miles inland from Constanza the he Black sea port and terminus of or orthe the railway the fall of ot which to the armies unites of or the central contral powers was reported re reported reported re- re ported yesterday Make Stand nt at furthermore is but little littlemore littlemore more than thirteen and one one-h one half Jr miles from where the Russo- Russo forces are apparently apparent preparing preparIng preparing pre pre- paring to make a stand at the thu bridgehead bridge I head tead protecting the town The only bridge over the Danube between Belgrade Bel Del grade and the sea ea spans the river at al I oda carrying the railway line running to Bucharest The HUl Rumanian o line lino new runs along along- the heights north of oC Constanza and tad lc nc according to the tho PetroGrad Petro- Petro grad rad announcement the entente forces ha having haIng Ing fallen back upon these ridges after altol evacuating the tho towns town Constantinople reports the operations operations opera opera- opera lone of Turkish submarines In th tha Black sea ot off the Rumanian coast const In Inthe Inthe the Lie sinking of a ton 1000 Rumanian transport sailing supply ships bound boun for Cor Constanza with provisions |