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Show Rumanian and Russian Troops in Wallachia Retreating as Forces of Von Mackensen and Von Falkenhayn Advance; Ad-vance; Many Prisoner? Taken. RUSSIANS ATTACK IN CARPATHIANS Petrograd Reports Battle Bat-tle in Progress; Berlin Says Muscovites Were Sanguinarily Repulsed; Heavy Fighting Reported Re-ported on the Macedonian Mace-donian Front. PETROGRAD, via London, Dec. 8. Rumanian and Russian troops in Wallachia ars continuing the retirement re-tirement begun at the time of the occupation of Bacharest, the war - office announced today. Teutonic forces have attacked on tho Moldavian Molda-vian front in the Oitzu valley, but were una Die to break the line. PETROGRAD, Dec. 8, via London, Lon-don, 4:51 p. m. The Russians have taken the offensive in the wooded. Carpathian district and a battle is in progress there, the war office announced an-nounced today. Pursuit of the retiring Russian and Rumanian forces in eastern Wallachia by ;FieId Marshal von Mackensen continues, but how far the Teutonic advance ha3 progressed is not known. Seemingly, the retiring defenders of Rumanian soil are offering little resistance resist-ance and are endeavoring to reach the line of the Buzeu river before the Austro-Germans Austro-Germans can break through the Moldavian Mol-davian frontier and get In their rear or the Bulgarians and Germans can cross the Danube around Tchernavoda and outflank out-flank them. The Germans have repulsed a Russian attack in the Trot us valley and the Russians report the checking of an offensive movement in the Oftuz valley. Petrograd says all has been calm In Dob-rudja Dob-rudja and along the Danube. In the rounding up of the forces cut off i-y their advance on Bucharest, the troops of von Mackensen 'have captured IS, 000 prisoners and twenty-six guns. The Rumanian Ru-manian troops isolated In western Wallachia. Wal-lachia. numbering SOOO, have been taken. I as well as 10.000 of the forces operating around Predcal and Altchanz passes. ! The Russians have again taken the inl-1 inl-1 tiative In the Carpathians, Petrograd states, south of Parovnik. Berlin says the Russian offensive Is a failure and declares de-clares only local attacks have occurred In that region. The repulse of a Russian attack on the Dvina front, below Riga, Is also recorded by Berlin. GERMAN GENERALS CLOSE UPON HEELS OF RETIRING FOE BERLIN", Dec. S, by wireless to Say-vjiie. Say-vjiie. Further progress has been made i by Field Marshal von Mackensen's forces in their pursuit of the retreating Ru- nianians, it Is officially announced lhi3 i evening. Rumanian troops retreating from the Predeal and Altschanz passes were cut off by Teutonic forces and most of them have been captured. In western Rumania the pursuit is being continued hy the Austro-German troops, which yesterday took more than 10,000 prisoners, i The statement follows: Front of Archduke Joseph: After the failure of the great relieving of-! of-! fensive in the Carpathians t he Rue-j Rue-j slans have only undertaken local attacks. at-tacks. Yesterday they several times drove aculnst our lines on the Lu-dova Lu-dova an.:i in the Trotus valley. They were sanguinarily repulsed. ! Front of Field Marshaf von Macken- ( sen: Our advance aqainst and I across the Bucharest-Ploechti line pro eeded so rapidly that the Rumanians Ru-manians located in the frontier moun- ! tains, In the Predeal and Altschanz parses, had no chance to retreat in time. On their retirement they en- I countered German and Austro-Hun- ! gartan troops and. being pressed fmm the north, a majority of them al-leady al-leady has heen made prisoner. Between t he mountains and the Danube the puryi.it Is proccedinu. The ninth army yesterday took more than 1'i.OnO prisoners. On the Alt the Rumanian forces cut off in western RurnaniH mot their unavoidable un-avoidable fate. Colonel von .zieve, (Continued on Pae Two.)' ; , . TEUTONS C0NT1E PBITOFEffly (Continued From Pago One.) with Austro-Hungarian and German troops under his command, on December De-cember H forced them to surrender. Ten battalions, one squadron and six batteries, numbering 8000 men, with twenty -six cannon, laid down their arms. (The capture of this force Was announced in yesterday's supplemental supple-mental army heads' report j) THREE BAVARIAN MINISTERS SAID TO HAVE RESIGNED LONDON. Dec. 8. 8:37 p. m. "According "Accord-ing to a Berlin dispatch to Dutch newspapers," news-papers," says Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, cor-respondent, "three Bavarian ministers have resigned Minister of the fVtterior Baron von Soden-Frauunehofen. Minister of War Baron Kress von Kressenslein and President von Rretschnoider of tiie council of ministers. Baron von Kressenstcin has been reappointed commander of the Sixth corps of the Bavarian cavalry. ,The cavalry general, Baron von Stendel, has been appointed war minister."' BERLIN REPORTS REPULSE OF THE RUSS ATTACKS BERLIN, Dec. 8, by wireless to Sav-ville. Sav-ville. Attacks made by Russian troops yesterday in the Ludova region, in the Carpathians, and in the Trotus valley, on the northern Rumanian front, were re-pulsed re-pulsed with heavy losses, I he war office announced. V. Tiie Russians made an attack yestarday on tho Dvina front, on tiie northern part of the Russo-Galiclan line, but failed to gain ground, it is officially announced. "On the Macedonian front last night attacks made fry Serbian troops near Trnova, in the Cerna river region, were repulsed by the Germans and Bulgarians." the war office announces. '"Renewed British attacks in the Struma sector also failed." |