Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-27 | Page 3 | Rumans Recapture Heights Lost on Moldavian Front

RUMANS RECAPTURE HEIGHTS LOST ON MOLDAVIAN FRONT PETROGRAD. Dec. 26, British admiralty admi-ralty per Wireless Press, via London, 2:25 p. m. Recapture hy Rumanian forces of one of the heights they recently lost in the fighting along the Moldavian frontier is announced hy the war office today. The statement reads: The enemy is bombarding with an intense an illery fire the regions of the villages of Planhiks. Manduff and Gokalovsee forest. South of Brze-zany Brze-zany the enemy is directing his fire along the heights occupied by us east nf the villages of Llpnicadolna and Svisteiniki. On the Moldavian frontier, in the valley of the river Kasino, Rumanian troops by a ring attack regained one of the heights lost by them yesterday. yes-terday. On the Rumanian front the enemy made fierce attacks at the source of the river Srishtza. in the region of the Dragoslatzoff. They were repulsed re-pulsed by Rumanian counter-attacks, which at the same time secured three machine guns. At the. source of the River Rimnik the enemy pressed back our advanced posts, which withdrew to the main positions. In the valley of the river Kllnau, west of Rimnik, -Sarak, all enemy attacks at-tacks were- repulsed by our fire. Throughout the day the enemy with considerable forces "made a number of attacks on the Filipechti-Lichko-tianka front, which were repulsed with great losses to him. He evacuated evacu-ated the village of Filipechti after it was set on fire by the enemy artillery. artil-lery. In Dobrudja there was an exchange ex-change of fire by patrols.