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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Se ere fighting on man" fronts has not diminished the dramatic interest of the campaign in Dobrudja. where the great German soldier, Von Mackenscn, leading an army of Germans, Bulgars and Turks, is seeking to hold back the Russo-Rumaniiui drive against Bulgaria and Turkey. After opening the campaign with his usual brilliancy and Mieeess, Von Maek-ensen Maek-ensen appears to have met with a distinct dis-tinct tduvk, if not a decisive defeat, along the fifty -mile front from the Danube to the Black-sea. When he had defeated the enemy along tho line from Silistria to the fortress of Dobric, near the sea, he pushed northward about forty miles before he encountered determined deter-mined resistance. Then he found that the Russians and Rumanians had taken positions approximately along the old Roman wall, an earthwork erected by the Emperor Trajan in his campaign against the barbarians of that region. re-gion. Evidently the line is capable of a strong defense. At any rate the Russo-Rumaniau staff elected to make a stand there and try to defend the railway line running parallel with the wall, but twelve miles farther north. This railway extends from the Black . sea port of Constanza (Kustendji) to : the Danube city of Chernavoda. The ; Rus-rO-Rnmanian line extended from i Tnsla. oil theBlack sea, to the Danube city of Rashova. When Rumania declared war Field Marshal Miu-kensen "got the drop'' on j his enemies by striking with all his might. The Russians had been unable to get their troops aero-s Rumania rapidly rap-idly enough to check the onrush of Maeketisen 's forces. For a brief period the Slavs held up the enemy at Dobric. but the defeat of the Rumanians on the Danube flank compelled the entire Russn-Rumaiiian army to fall back. Sofia was so delighted with the triumphs won by thp Buigars anil their allies that it , o feudally announced the "complete destruction" de-struction" of the Rumanians, but manifestly mani-festly the elaim was a gross exaggeration, exagger-ation, for only ten days later we find Mackenen xorced back from the Roman wail, after a six-day battle, and com- , pelled to dig himself .in five miles to the southward. Fighting still continues in that region with indications that the Rusr-o Rumanian army has the upper j To explain the quick recovery nf tho Russians and Rumanians is not difficult. Adequate forces had been sent by Russia Rus-sia to assist the Rumanians, but they were slow in arriving at the appointed places. T advance guard of the Russians Rus-sians eor.sisteri largely of cavalry. The Rumanian-! furnished the infantry. As manv as ,i"''0 or 60, 'M Russian cavalry rook pa 1 1 in the earlier righ's. Tho Russian infantry b-ing unable to get to, the fmnt as quickly as the troopers, werv iinable to participate in the rir-t ba'tk-s. but were, no doubt, nresent in strong force along the Romr:u wall. At this line Mackensen I struck a disheartening obstacle. He 'founl the enemy well entrenched and 'supplied with all the necessary guns and ! munitions. Nevertheless, he boldly attacked at-tacked all along the line and pnetratd the En?;o-Rumanian front at two points. But the superior number- of the oefeni-in2 oefeni-in2 arrr.v iirallv wore down Mackenscn 's forces, and on the evening of the sixth lay he wa? so mfpehled that he dcid-M to retreat. Tiws he did in orderly :"a-hion and took up n new line live miles to the southward, or about seventeen seven-teen mile-; from the ( onstanza ' hf-rnn voda railway. What his fmtuue hae be-n since that tun1 u obscure. An un-confirmed un-confirmed dispatch from Ro:jte states that he has abandoned :list ria. more rhan thirty miles further back. Berlin admits that the enemy is on the offon-:.ive offon-:.ive and' is attacking both of Ma-dun-;en 's flank8'. In Macedonia the Bulgarian- have had no b''trr luck. The allies operating we;,t no: t h'-vest of Saloniki, on tk' ruad to the Serbian town of Monastir, have bc-t'-d the Bulgarians in big battles-. The Serbians have be"n a-st-ted by tho Kmi'di and Russians, who occupied Idorina, u hile the Serb inns, inarching riort h a nd northwest nf La ke ( Kt rovo, ca pti; red t lu' highest j-n rum it ff the Kai in a kca Ian range. ( Icnrral Sa rrail .in f. loved Tcnllent i at eg;, in liin rap-t'n rap-t'n of Fl'iritia. !Te '"'lit thn Ruians and Kr'nch soulh (if La It1 ()strovo bv to i ced mo j-'-hes, and wh-n t hoy had marched a ,-u Hi' ir-ji t di-tance to the westward he dire ted th'Tii lo move northward against Fiorina. The ri'fuit v. ;i that rioruia was nttacke,! from t!i-iiorfiia-t and ca-t by the Serbians and '.i oin tin- :-outh and sou I li u (".t, by the F--nch and lu"--ian's. The attack tl,r to. Ml it-clt' was conduct. d bv the I'refi' li, who took it by Morni, evept. for a few po-itiopR in the lunliioiri oiif -l-.nt-. " Several das u.m- re,, mod 1o djir th'- l:nl:;anairi out nf Ui'- prm i-miH. but riMan!iii:.- th S.r,jan had vn Mi.rcr'il in tli.-r uUifU. that Mi'- flu L'a ia ns Te in danger, of bf,i)'.' nrrouii-fd in th- I "lo, ma di-' i i't. 'I'le y ! rt-f 1 1 -a t-'d, t h"icf oji, to po-.i f ionn 11 -; j i I in Sc, ,i:, border. Them. po,il irmv had f !m en -tab!i)icd for m-uilhs :nid a : y st,ng tin) tin alius have mad' lift). ;uo!.'ic-; in 1h. I.-.M f.-v. dni. To tl,r ,.;i-!w!, the (taliaim and Kngli li a!o liav In-e,, battling with I'h- Pedari. Th" Itatifin w.-je vorst-d :nrl .onnp'dlcd to Hi,!-. lld'T f I , M T vil I !:,- , bill v t rent. d iu -ood order. 'J'he English have been lighting along t he St ruma river and near Eakc Doiran. They ajipear to have held their own. But noit her the Italians nor the English Eng-lish are lighting in tho main battle, which is being conducted on the left flank of the allies to the north and northwest of Fiorina. The Rumanians, although one of their columns has met with misfortune, have now occupied one -fourth of Transylvania. Transyl-vania. Udvarhcly, fifty-three miles northwest of Kronstadt, is the high water wa-ter mark of their advance. Toward their left flank, that is to say, in the region of llermannstadt, they have been forced to retreat. They had penetrated to llat:eg. about thirty miles north of the pass through which they had mado their way from Rumania, when they came in contact with the reinforced Teutons. Teu-tons. Defeated, the Rumanians fell back to a point near the pass and fortified forti-fied themselves. In" the C arpathians the Russians have had the better of the fighting, but owing to the tierce counter attacks of the enemy en-emy have not gained much territory. At Halicz, in Galicia, and to the north and west thereof they have been on the offensive, hoping to eject General Von Bothmer from that stronghold. Von Bothmer has displayed superior strategy m a losing iigut una uas ueeii auic iu hold on to the city, although forced to give up some positions in the vicinity. On the Stokhod river, in Voihynia, and to the southward, the Russians and Germans have fought battles of some magnitude. A "bridgehead, which the Russians held west of the Stokhod, has been stormed and taken by the Germans. Ger-mans. The Italians have been moving forward for-ward in the Trentino, but very slowly. On the ( arso plateau, southear-t of Gor-izia. Gor-izia. they have made eon-dderable progress prog-ress in the drive toward Triest. The Anglo-French offensive on the Somme continues. The English have taken the villages of Courcelette, Marti Mar-ti upuieh and Flers and, pushed on to the north. The French have broken in the German salient on the right flank and have made their way far forward at the center iu the dist riet north of Peronne. As a result 'ombles. the strongest point between Peronne and Ba pa u me, i- in a pocket and probably will be stormed oon. The menace in this district was so great that the Germans launched a gi gantic rount er attack, in which 11 1 or O'.O1 hi men took part. In den-e maes the Germans pushed forward. for-ward. Seven avaults were made during one day and a few French positions were occupied, but the Germans were 1 riven out, at one place a tierce hand-to-hand en -o;: nter marking th" action. On th-1 following day the Germans re-tiirncd re-tiirncd to the attack, but made no gains. f rerman hm a Tines have heen causing caus-ing such a loss aumng allied shipping ;tha: Great Britain is preparing to take morn drastic measure- to get control of merchant --hir. Th" Gorman-, are sinking sink-ing more boats today than at any other t :n,e si ne i hey estabii-hed war .ones in the Kngli h channel and North sea. For thp (ir-t three months of submarine subma-rine a- t ivit v the Germans claimed less thai; .:."i,oori tons destroyed. Llovd 's lists show for Aiigu-t a los- of fortv large it earners of various nationalities, with an aggregate tonnage of more than ; Ii'cJioo. it u-iil be observed that these figure? indicate increased efficiency on the part of the German. The German claim is that li'- ves-eN. with a total tot: nag" nf 17,C 1 7, were sunk 'luring duly and August, and that the value of ships and cargoes amounted to $fit5,4M,- A rmarkafdo feat was acrnm pi i shed by an Austrian s ca pi a n e . It a 1 1 a- k -M the French submarine Faucrtult in the Adriatic and -n n k it with bombs. Then it swooped down and rescued the officers offi-cers and crew of the ? trie ken essel with the aid of other aircraft. The r r if oners were soon tu rne.l over to an Austrian war ves-el and takm to port. |