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Show y 1 1 jj Hungarian and German Troops Fighting on the Center of the Line in Rumania Emerge From the Swamp Lands of the Jalomitza River. CROSS STREAM NEAR RECEANU Resistance of the Defenders De-fenders Broken and Several Thousand More Prisoners Taken; Heavy Fighting in Cer-na Cer-na Region of Serbia. The Hungarian and Ccrman troops fighting on the center of the lino in Rumania Ru-mania have emerged from the swamp lands of the Jaloiniissi river and made a crossing of the stream near Rcctanu, about mid way between Bucharest and the important lailrcad junction lov.n ot Euzeu. Before the invaders and Kuzcu now lie about thirty-five miles of plains, with no rivers to cross until the Duzcu Itself is readied. Despite heavy rains and soggy ground, the forces of the Teutonic allies all along the front in Rumania continue to make progress. The Rumanian attacks which had held the invaders in the Ploetchti region now havo been broken, according to Berlin. Several thousand additional ad-ditional Rumanians have been made prisoners. pris-oners. In the fighting in the eastern. Carpathians Car-pathians aud along the Moldavian front all tho Butsian attacks have been repulsed, re-pulsed, Fays the Berlin war office. Considerable heavy fighting lias again taken place in the Ccrna river region of Serbia. Both the Berlin and Bulgarian war offices report the repulse of strong entente allied attacks in this sector, Berlin Ber-lin asserting that the French and Serbians Ser-bians suffered sanguinary losses. However, How-ever, an advance of several hundred yards against the Teutonic allies west of Suhodol, northeast of Monaslir, is reported re-ported by the Serbian general staff, while the French official communication records the pushing forward of the entente line about 800 meters near Vlaklar. Artillery actions and small engagements engage-ments continue on the western front in France and Belgium and also in the Aus- tro-Italian theater. Quiet prevails in Russia and Galicia. The Greek situation remains tns1 Conferences between the entente allies in an endeavor to reach a very radical solution solu-tion of the problem are in progress, according ac-cording to an announcement of the Brit-ish Brit-ish foreign office. BERLIN REPORTS ON THE PROBABLE RUMANIAN LOSS BERLTN. Dec. 11. by wireless to Pay-ville. Pay-ville. The Rumanian losses since the beginning be-ginning of their campaign are placed by the military critic of the Overseas News agency at 140,000 prisoners and 500 cannon, can-non, in addition to the dead and woundM war material dfstrnyed and the booty captured at Bucharest. He writes: The operations of the central powers pow-ers in Wallachta are progressing powerfully. pow-erfully. They are driving before them the fragments of the defeated Rumanian Ru-manian army. Rating in the north against the mountain? near Ploechtl t and in the south acainst t::e Danube swamps, the armies of the central powers, on a front of 100 kilometers, form an irrepiatlble wall which cannot can-not be shaken. Troops from Predcal pass have joined the main body. Tho central powers have at their dlpnosal the railroad running north and south between Kronstadt, Ploehti. Bucharest, and the Danuhe. which forms a ffr5t-cay. trat-ei? means of transport, and in addition the Wallachdan railroad from Orsova to Bucharest and thence to Turtukat and Giurciu. The fleeincr Rumanians have at thir dipposal onlv the railroad rail-road from Buzeu into Moldavia and a cross railroad which is utterly useless for stra f.eic purposes. The Russians continue tV.eir hop-lss hop-lss offensive in the Carpathians, b'-.t their forces are too impaired efficiently- to assist the Rumanians In Vi'al'tachia. ' RUM AN TROOPS REGAIN SOME OF LOST POSITIONS PETROGR An. Tw. 1, via Tendon. i l:4o n. m. Afrcr heinfr nresd back bv t'riP Teutonic forces on the front ent of Fifteen! i. the Rumanians mad an attack at-tack ysterdny nn'l rerrnM thrft- position?, posi-tion?, the war off'c1 n nnn: need todav. The announcement follows: On S-iturday evening the enemy (Continued on Page rivo.. RIHS UNABLE TO STOP THE TEUTONS (Continued from Page One.) pressed ba-k the Rumanians along th Ploecbti-Mizil highroad. The next morning tiie Rumanians, by a counter-attack, restored the position. The battle i.s still proceeding. In Dobrudja and on the Danube reciprocal firing is under way. In the region of Kirtlbaba (near the northwestern Moldavian frontier) the enemy, about a company strong, took the offensive, but was beaten back by our fire to his trenches. Tn the region of the village of Vale Putna and in the valley of the river Trotus (Moldavian frontier) the enemy en-emy offered stubborn resistance, meeting our advance with a violent fire and counter-attacks, which, however, how-ever, were not successful. In the mountains along the whole front a deep snowfall and considerable frost are greatly hampering operations. |