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Show Timely Arrival of Muscovite Mus-covite Troops Before Bucharest at a Critical Moment, When Loss of the Capital Seemed Certain, Changes Rumanian Ru-manian Situation. TEUTONIC FORCES HASTILY RETREAT Flank Movement of the Germans Frcm the Piteshti Meets With Success; Ruma n i a n Forces, However, Succeed Suc-ceed in Escaping. PETROGEAU, Dec 4, 1:33 p. m., via London. 1? 22 p. m. The timely arrival of Russian iroop3 before Bucharest at the critical moment when the loss of capital seemed certain ha somewhat changed the Rumanian situation. According to mili- ( tary opinion here, the Rumanians now have at least a fighting chance.to retain re-tain their capital and w Ith the aid of the Russians, who rendered their first valuable assistance to the Rumanian de- j fense by an offensive in the Carpathians beg"un five days ago, will now attempt to Include Bucharest in the zone which they are able to defend, establishing a permanent perma-nent line iicrth and west of the capital. According- to information received hero from Bucharest, the German plan of encircling en-circling Bucharest was perilously near to accomplishment when it struck an unexpected un-expected obstacle In the form of a Russian Rus-sian force between Bucharest and the Danube. A flanging movement was partially successful when the Teutonic forces advancing ad-vancing from Lake Greca encountered a sudden stiffening in the resistance of the Rumanians, duo to the arrival of Russian troops, aid were compelled to retire In disorder. Emplacements already had been ; completed tor the big guns which were to bombard the Bucharest fortifications. Executing a hasty retreat, the Germans I and Bulgarians had to abandon guns of i all calibers and a large quantity of war i material. The northern Teutonic allied ! group which is ' attempting to flank 1 Bucharest from the side of Piteshti has proceeded with greater success, but the Rumanians have managed to retreat with-lout with-lout losing connection with the force defending de-fending the western fortifications of the capital. j GERMAN REPORT TELLS OF ROUT OF THE ENEMY BERLIN, Dec. A, by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. The Russians have been Increasing Increas-ing their activity In the Carpathians, according ac-cording to today's army headquarters' ' statement, but their attacks were apparently appar-ently made to cover a letting down of the "offenhlve In this region. Such assaults as-saults as were made were easily repulsed. On the Transylvania east front the J Russian pressure is being continued and i the attacking forces achieved some slight i proeress In the Trotus valley. Farther south, however, a height recently lost by the Austro-German forces was recap- ' tured. The official statement announces that the battle of the Argecho has been fought to a decision and won by the Teutonic j forces. I Rumanian Defeat Complete. ; The Important town of Tergovistea ha been captured by the Austro-GermaJI forces, and the troops advancing from the north by way of Campulung have effected a junction with those moving from the west in the terrain between the Danube ! and the mountains. The defeat of the ; first Rumanian army Is declared to have been complete, and the Teutonic troops I are continuing their victorious muicn eastward from Piteshti. "What remains of the first Rumanian army is declared to have been driven beyond be-yond Titu, to tho junction of the railroad rail-road from Bucharest to Campulung and Piteshti. Southwest of Bucharest tho Rumanians have been i-pwulsed, as they also wore in ! strong attacks to the south of tho capital, a severe defeat being Inflicted upon i hem, while rn vilry succeeded in lntei fei ing ; ; with railroad communication In their : rear. The total prisoners taken yester- ! day was more- tha n sunn. Besides other valuable nontv, thirty-five guns wro captured cap-tured by the Danube army. Official Statement. The text of the statement says: Strong Russian pressure still was maintained on the Transvlvanln rust front. In the Trotus valley the enemy en-emy siK-eecdi'd In making slight prou-ress. prou-ress. (jerman and Austrian troops farther south recaptured their nosl- (Contlnued on Pago Two.) t ( . KB IE ME TO RETARD MEi (Continued from Page One.) tion on a height which recently they had lost. Army group of Field Marshal von Mackenscn December 3 brought the battle in the Argechu river to a decision. de-cision. The battle has been won. i he operations of the armv of General Gen-eral of Infantry von Falkehavn. which in the middle of November began with a victorious battle at Tareujiu. and those of the German-Bulgarian-Turk-ish forces, which gained the north bank of the Danube, were crowned with success. The Danube army, fighting under command of General of Infantrv Koseh from Svistow, the army group of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General Kuehne. advancing through western AVallacia bevond Craiova, Cra-iova, the group of Lieutenant General Krafft von Deimsingen. coming after hard engagements along the Argechu Arge-chu from the, mountains and the German Ger-man and Austrian forces breaking ahead under command of Lieutenant General vun Worgen by way of Cam pulung have now joined "hands between the Danube and the mountains. moun-tains. The left wing yesterdav captured Tergovistea. Troops of Lieutenant General Krafft von Deimsingen continued con-tinued their victorious march from Fiteshte and completely defeated the first Rumanian army. Tbev drove the remnants eyondxthe Titu junction junc-tion of railroads from Bucharest to Campulung and Piteshte into the arms of the oft en-tested Forty-first infantry in-fantry division led by Lieutenant General Schmidt von kubelsdorf. On the west bank of the Arsrechu river and northwest and west of Bucharest Bu-charest fighting continues and we are progressing successfully. Southwest of the fortress, the Rumanians Ru-manians were repulsed across the river Niaslov toward Argechu river. According to an order that has been found, they intended to defeat separately sep-arately the Danube army while the Rumanian north wing (the first army) resisted. South of Bucharest stronc: Rumanian and Russian attacks had to be repulsed. re-pulsed. Here a'so a heavy defeat was inflicted on the energy, bur cavalry cav-alry succeeded In interrupting the railroad behind the Runinnian army. The conduct of our troops in the various em:airements was beyond pra ise. Toey showed wonderf ul marching capacity. The rich country coun-try and the captured provision carts which were tilled facilitated the victualling of our troops. T'rje Rumanian army suffered the heaviest sanguira ry losses. To t he thousands of prisoners taken on preceding pre-ceding days more than SOvO were addc,- yesterdav. The booty secured, Including war materials of all kinds, was incalculable. incalcula-ble. The Danube army captured thirty-five cannon and near Titu thir-t thir-t een loco mot i ves with much roll in g stock fell into our hands. The operations opera-tions continue as planned. New fighting fight-ing is to he expected. In the T ohn:d.ia there were no im-1 im-1 portant engagements. |