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Show FURIOUS BATTLE iW , DOBRUDJA CME5 Reports Still Conflicting; Conflict-ing; Rome Hears Von Mackensen Has Surrendered Sur-rendered Recently Captured Fortress of Silistria; Berlin Merely Mere-ly Says Enemy Is Attacking. At-tacking. BULGARS CHECK SERB OFFENSIVE Counter-blows Hold Up Advance of Allies in Fiorina Sector, While Further East Italians and English Lose Some Positions. f LONDON, Sept. 23. From Switzcr- . land by wireless to Rome comes a report that Field Marshal Von Mackensen s army continues to retreat in Dobrudja province, and that the Russians and Taii-, maniaus already have reoeenpied the fortress of' Silistria, recently captured by the Germans and Bulgarians. The report also says that Russian naval forces havo resumed the bombardment of Varna, the chief Bulgarian port on the Black sea. Berlin says nothing of a continued retreat, re-treat, but reports that the Russians and ' Rumanians are attacking Von Macken-pen's Macken-pen's forces on both flanks. "Th,e attacks," at-tacks," says the Berlin communication, "which on the one flank were near the Danube nnd on the'ofher southwest of Toprai Sari, fourteen miles southwest of t'onstanza, wre repulsed. " It is possible that Mackensen 's main army is retreating retreat-ing and that the battles reported from Berlin are merely rear guard actions designed to check temporarily the advance ad-vance of the. Russians and Rumanians. Serbians Checked. "trj The Bulgarian right wing yi Mace-f Mace-f i donia has stopped the Serbian offensive, ' temporarily, at least, and has begun :i counter offensive in which during the last twenty-four hours some trenches were recaptured. Attempts at infau-! infau-! try attacks by the Kronen, Russians and Serbs north and northwest of Fiorina i were frustrated by the Bulgarian lire, the Sofia w::r ollico announced today. j Bad Weather Interferes. Tn the left win, between Lake Doi-1 ran and the Struma, the Hulgar? have been equally successful, capturing two villages and driving the Italo-British forces southward, according to the Bui-: v jjarian war olliee. j (ieneral Sjtrrail's official report todav J says bad weather is interfering withj operations on the whole Macedonian j front, only skirmishes having t alien I j place around Lake Doiran. j The British official report concerning' the Macedonian front reports sneers?- I ful, r; ills on Bulgarian trenches nea r Komar jan and at three points on the j Xoiran front. RUMANIANS MEET WITH REPULSE IN TRANSYLVANIA BERLrX, via London, Sept. j;'!, 4H2 p. m. Two Rumanian divL-i.ins Hd-vancjng Hd-vancjng on either side of the Transvl vania town of Hei niannstadt were re-pulped re-pulped yesterday by Teuton forces, pap the official si atement todav. More than r 0 1 .1 prisoners w e re t :i k e n b v the Germans. The statement, say?: Siebeu burden (Transyh-.in in) the-i the-i ater: On both Mdes of llermanii- ; stadt about two Kutuanian division ', attacked and were repulsed with serious and sanguinary losses by ; our advanced detachments. 1 n the j course of con nter-at tacks we made J l (Continued on Fao Two.) FIERCE- FIGHTING IN DDBRUDJA COMES (Continued from Pago One.) three officers and -526 men prisoners. prison-ers. Near Szt-Janoshigy our advanced ad-vanced posts were withdrawn during dur-ing the night. We have taken Vulcan pass, which is safe from enemy attempts at recapture. Balkan front, army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen: In Dobrudja, Rumanian attacks near the Danube and southwest of Toprai Sari were repulsed. Macedonian front: There have been futile attacks by the enemy and lively artillery activity at some points. The territory south of the Belasica Planina to Krusa Balkan has been evacuated by the enemy, en-emy, i emy tranche? in the neighborhood ot Komarjan, causing casualties," says the official report of Today in regard to the Macedonian campaign. ''Our naval aircraft bombarded an enemy transport near Drama, apparently apparent-ly with good results. On the Doiran front we raided enemy trenches at three points. ' ' |