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Show PAD IT Hi Preparations Are Being Made to Prevent Bucharest Bu-charest From Falling Into the Hands of the Invading Teu tons; More Reinforcements Coming Up. OFFICIALS MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY Muscovites and Rumanians Ruma-nians Claim Success of Offensive on Front of About ' 248 Miles, While the Germans Say They Are Advancing. Ad-vancing. By International News Service. AMS TEE DAM, Dec. 1 .Bucharest .Bucha-rest is hemmed in on three sides, the vanguard of the invaders having hav-ing reached Lake Greac, to the southeast of the besieged city. This advance m.ak:es the escape of the Rumanian army difficult. , LONDON, Dec. 1, 7:10 p. m. The Cologne Gazette publishes an unconfirmed report that Russian troops have arrived at Bucharest. PETROGEAD, Dec. 1, 1:50 p. m., via London, Dec. 2, 1:30 a. m. The new Russian drive into the wooded Carpathians, Carpa-thians, which began three days ago with the purpose of diverting part of General Von Falkenhayn's troops from the Rumanian Ru-manian front and preventing a further invasion of Rumania on the Transylva-nian Transylva-nian side, is acquiring momentum as it proceeds. The drive, report says, now has developed into operations on a large scale. Communications Cut Off. The important line of communications from Kirlibaba to Maramaros-Szigel is under control of the Russian guns on the neighboring crests, which fell to the Russians during the hard fighting of the past two days. Thus far, military observers say, the Austrians apparently have been taken by surprise and have been unable to withstand the Russian attacks at any important points. In the amount of war material and the number of prisoners taken, as well as the precipitate abandonment aban-donment of positions by the Austrians, military observers contend that the operations oper-ations bear close resemblance to the early days of General Brussiloff's summer sum-mer campaign. Strategic Value. The result already obtained by the Russian domination of the Kirlibaba-Maramaros-Szigcl road in part, declaro the observers, will reach its full strategic significance in case of the Austrian Aus-trian surrender of Kirlibaba. In this event, it is expected here, the Russians will have little difficulty in crossing thi ridge of the Carpathians and advancing along the valley of the Nagyszamos river. The obvious effect of this move, thi military observers here say, would be to bring General Von Falkcnhayn 's advance ad-vance into Wallachia to a stop and would greatly improve the position of Bucharest. HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS, WITH SLIGHT ADVANTAGE BUCHAREST, Dec. 1, via London, 4:25 p. m. Heavy fighting is in progress prog-ress all along the frontier of northern Rumania ami in western Rumania, but no important chances are reported by the war office today. In Dobrud.ia a violent attack has been begun over the entire front Following is the announcement an-nouncement : Northern and northwestern fronts: From the western frontier of Moldavia to the Buzeu valley, inclusive, in-clusive, there have been lively eti-. eti-. gagements all along the wholo front. At Table BuUi and Brato-cea Brato-cea and in the Prahova valley artillery ar-tillery bombardments and infantry actio'is occurred. Western front: In the Golesti sec- (Continued on Page Two.) RUSSIAN TROOPS AT Mill CAPITAL I (Continued from Page One.) tor, six kilometers south of Pitesh-ti, Pitesh-ti, very violent engagements have taken place and also in the Glaca-eiun Glaca-eiun valley and on the Niavov to Koman. Ve captured several hundred hun-dred prisoners, ten machine guns and some other war material. Southern t'rrnt: In Dobrudja we have made violent attack along; the whole front. After infantry actions we evacuated evacu-ated Cam pulung and are retiring in the Dumbovitza vallev, where, before, we bad been violently attacked. |