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Show SEHIEEfl BO! KILLED BY HUE Empty Transport Russian, Rus-sian, in British Service, Is Sunk in Mediterranean; Mediter-ranean; Muleteers and Members of Crew Lose Their Lives. FRENCH RETAKE FARM AT VERDUN Germans Fix Losses of French at 3,800,000 and of British at 1 300,000; Russians De-fend De-fend What Is Left of Rumania. Seventeen American muleteers were killed on December 14, when th British horse transport Russian was sunk by a submarine In the Mediterranean eea, according ac-cording to an announcement by the British Brit-ish admiralty. Eleven members of tho crew also lost their lives. The Russian Is declared to have been empty at the time she was sunk. French troops have regained the entire en-tire occupancy of the Chambrettcs farm, northeast of Verdun and about the center cen-ter of their advance of last week. Prisoners Pris-oners taken in the latest French thrust on the Verdun front now total more than 11,000. In addition to 116 cannon and 107 machine gunB captured or destroyed. Paris reports the repulse of several German Ger-man offensive attempts in the Sommo region. Unofficial estimates made In Berlin place the losses of the French army to date at 3,800,000 men and the British Iossas at . 1,300,000. The Anglo-French losses on the Sorame to tho end of November are estimated esti-mated at SOO.000, the British share being 550,000. The German losses on the Somnie-are Somnie-are declared by the Germans to have been less than 500,000. In the region of Buezu, Berlin states, the soldiers of Field Marshal von Mac-kensen Mac-kensen have been successful In minor engagements. en-gagements. Petrograd asserts that In the region of the Filipechtl railroad station, east of Buezu, hostile attacks were arrested. ar-rested. The Babadagh-Peclnaga line, about forty miles north of the Tchornavoda-Constanza Tchornavoda-Constanza railway, has been crossed by the Teutonic troops, who now have taken virtually all the ground they held during their previous advance In northern Do-brudja. Do-brudja. The advance In Dobrudja brings the forces of the central powers near the Important railroad and storage centers of Ibraila and Galatz. On the western Moldavian frontier the Russians have taken two ridges of height?, according to Petrograd. One ridge was in the L'zul valley and the other east of Glashutte, where more than 200 prisoners were captured. Except for the repulse of Russian attacks at-tacks by the Austro-Germans near Lutsk, In Vclhynla, and near ZborofT, in Galicia, there bas been little activity on the other battlef ronts. Berlin announces that a French battleship battle-ship of the Patrie claps was damaged heavily by a torpedo from a German submarine sub-marine in the Mediterranean sea on December De-cember 12 and that on the irevious day a French transport carrying 120 soldiers was torpedoed southwest of Sicily. The French admiralty denies the loss of a French warship of the Patrie class. RUMAN ARMY SAFE IN RUSSIA, PARIS IS TOLD PARIS. Dec. 18, 10:50 a. m. The Rumanian Ru-manian army is now safe, according to news received in Paris last night, pava the Petit Parislen. The p&Per says that the survivors are now beyond the "Sereth, at Jassey and in Bessarabia, where thev are being regrouped and refitted in view of further opera i ions. The p ntire Rumanian Ru-manian iront is now stated to be held by the Russians alone. After the Bucharest-Ploe-Ml line was lost, the story says, the Rupslans sent divisions and forces of cavalry to support sup-port the retreat of the Rumanian armv. King Ferdinand fell back as rapidly as possible. BFSUred of th possibility of reforming re-forming behind the pheitr of the Russians, Rus-sians, and continued the withdrawal without with-out hailing untiJ the Pereth was crossed. Thf Russians offered strong reFiMano to the Germans in the region of Buzeu po a to permit engineers to construct a defensive de-fensive front between Rimnik Sarat and toe Danube mar.hep. un which front, tt. lt stated, the Russians intend to stop the advance of the invaders. BRITISH BETTER THEIR POSITIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA LONDON. D" IS. 4:r,. p. m. Th British Brit-ish fot'ffs on the Tigris front have improver! im-prover! thp-ir jiOM'.l'iiis in the lapt two da vs. although no i ".cu n,; rinn of offensive operation" oper-ation" on a onnidev.-inje scale is indicated in today's official report on these opera- (Contlnued on Page Eight.) IESB KILLED BY SUBI1E (Continued from Page One.) tint-.?. Thr inn ma'ie hr lr-y K'it-rt-Am;ira la-t .-. ; a.-hi'vtd with mm- f n r ;i ' U-'-ly f .ii.,l o.i...h, ttei ttiit. emen t "I ur iz t u rda v and Sunday r;ene i a 1 Maml extended his bold over the Hal ri-r and rnns.,1 l! n ie,i !), line M.ia-Hsis-Ka ! I - H r. j i - J-'a ha n, while l b enemy's posi-rioiirf posi-rioiirf were l...inharded with i;o'd results." The l( ii rn uie 'emeji I. mv: "t '; airy recoti-tiid;: recoti-tiid;: uii'es, dnrincr rhe dnv d i scos--d tb1 fa-t il'at tiie Tmks are constructing a new pontoi-n brldt'e went the Shutran bend of th Tigris, olne MX to cibt miles wst of Kur -el-A ma ra. Several larso parlies of A i a.t.s have been d riven off by shell fl: e. "The tot.il caM:aM!et to date are fneon-sider.ihle, fneon-sider.ihle, a lare proportion of tho wound? Ije.ii.ff :dlKht." |