OCR Text |
Show RUSSIAN ATTACKS FUTILE German Armies Continue Con-tinue to Deliver Heavy Blows Along the 120-Mile 120-Mile Front From the Danube Rive? to Oituz Pass, in the Carpathian Mountain Region. FIERCE FIGHTING IN TRANSYLVANIA Muscovites Lose 650 Men and Seven Ma-- Ma-- chine Gum: French Assault the New German Ger-man Line on Dead Man Hill, but Are Forced to Retreat. TJie -Teutonic armies in Rumania and along the Moldavian frontier continue con-tinue to drive forward. The campaign covers the 120-mile front from the Danube Dan-ube river to Oituz pass in the Carpathians, Carpa-thians, and extends northward to the vallcj- of the Putna river. ' The heaviest blows of the German armies are being delivered alnog the railroad line running northward from Eimnik-Sarat to Fokshani, and they have forced the lines of the defenders backward to the Carpathians. The invaders in-vaders have captured Bordeatchi and forced the Russians to retreat near Za-letzi, Za-letzi, off the coast of RimniU-Sarat. In attacks along the Transylvanian frontier, Teutonic troops have driven ahead in the face of strong counter-attacks and captured 650 men and seven machine guns. They also have occupied occu-pied several heights and pressed back the Russian troops north and south of the valley of the Oituz river. Except for a French attack on the new German lines on Dead Man hill near Verdun, which was repulsed, there is little activity long the front in France. fl Minor engagements only are reported from the Russian front in Galicia and from Macedonia, RUMANIANS AND -v,, RUSSIANS FORCED BACK BY TEUTONS BERLIN, Dec. 30, via wireleffa to Say-vllle. Say-vllle. In the course of heavy flffhting on the Transylvania front yesterday, Teutonic Teu-tonic troops entered intrenched Russo-Kumanian Russo-Kumanian positions and pushed farther ahead, notwithstanding strong counterattacks, counter-attacks, the war of lice announces in Rumania the Russians and Rumanians are being driven back along the whole front between the mountains and the Danube. The statement reads: Front of Archduke Joseph: In the snow-covered wooded Carpathians, German riflemen have performed suc-cepsful suc-cepsful patrol service. On the mountains alonj? the Transylvania Tran-sylvania frontier the German and Austro-Hunearian troops entered Intrenched In-trenched positions and pushed farther ahead In the face of strong counter- 1 attacks, durlnp; which the Russians left ten officers and 650 men, with ueven machine guns, in our hands. Army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen: Our Indefatf nahle troops are following the retreating enemy along the whole front between the mountains and the Panuhe and occupy in the battle now in progress a line running nort heast of Vlzirul and Sntesti, on the Bazul and through Slobozla, bnlf way between Rimnlk-Sarat Rimnlk-Sarat and Plalnechtl. RUSSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT AT HANDS OF GERMAN ENEMY rCTROr.nAD. Dec. JO. via Tymrion, 3:45 P m. (British Admiralty, per Wireless Press.) Strong Teutonic forces, assisted by heavy ami llprlit artillery, yesterday continued their attacks on tne Riisfo- (Cortlcued on Page Three.) RUSSMN COUNTER ATMS FUTILE (Continued from Page One.) Rumanian positions on the battle front northeast of Rlmnik-Sarat, In central Rumania, says the official statement issued is-sued today by the Russian war office. The invaders captured the village of Bordestclil on the river Rlmnik and pressed hack the Russian detachments near Zaiestsi. The statement reads: Rumanian front: The enemy Is conducting con-ducting stubborn attacks on the upper part of the river Kamna, on the Moldavian Mol-davian frontier, west of Sovena, near the source of the river Suchitza and along the river Putna west of the station sta-tion of Kosa. v The enemy, with considerable forces and assisted by heavy and light artillery, continued his obstinate attacks on the front northeast of Rlmnik-Sarat. directing his main hlow along the railway, tie succeeded in taking possession of the village of Bordestclil, on the river Rlmnik, and pressed back our detachments near the village of, Zaiestsi. fifteen vcrsts northeast of Rlmnik-Sarat. South of the Danube enemy attacks were repulsed with great losses to j him. j Dobrudja: There was infantry fisht- lug- I |