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Show OUuIlo OS TC MTfl! in I Lli I Ullil! General von Falken-hayn, Falken-hayn, Former Chief of German Imperial Staff, Divides His Forces and Inflicts a Smashing Defeat De-feat Upon the Enemy at Hermannstadt. SECOND ARMY COMES TOO LATE Defeated Rumanians Cut Way Through Encircling Forces and Retreat Southward to Impassable Mountains; Russians Are Also Checked . - BUCHAREST, Sept. 30, via Loudon, Lou-don, Get 1, 12:0,1 a. in. The letreat of the Rumanians fro:n tho Kr- maunstfidt district is r.d:!!itted in the official coiiimiuiicaticn lrom headquarters. TI13 Eunianians wore attacked on all sidea, the statement says, and retreated southward alter fighting their way through enemy forces attacking from the south. ISpfi'tal Ciilile by Arrangement w .ti, London Dally Telcamyh aad lnteruatlonal News amvlt.) LONDON, opl. oU. Tho battle at HonnaniLstiuH, Transylvania, which lias been in progress for five days, has ended end-ed in a victory for General von 1'alken-hayn, 1'alken-hayn, commanding the Austro-lhm-gariau troops. Toniyht the Kumaiiiuns are fleeing in disorder into the recesses of tho impassable im-passable mountains, according to today's German war office report. Those who attempted to ret reat into Rumania through the Rothantliorni pass, were met by a devastating tire. They found that, the paso had been occupied in tiieir rear while the battle of iicrmaunstadt was under way. A large number of prisoners and a quantity of war stores fell into the hands of the victors. Flee in Disorder. The UtTinati olf icial repurt of tho vic-lory vic-lory says: The encircling battle, which began be-gan ..in September has been won by General von K'tlKcnhuyu. Get-man Get-man and Austro -Hungarian troops destructively defeated sections ol. the fiit Rumanian army. The rest of the Rumanian troops t'led in disorder dis-order into the impassable mountains. moun-tains. Both sides of the Rothan-thorm Rothan-thorm pass had been occupied by us by a tonfd march on the morning of September 20. The Russians were received there, by a devastating fire from Bavarian troops coniniandrd by Generals K raf ft and Von 1 Vlnipnsingen. A thrm-t made icy Iheir j'olief by the second Rumanian army came too late. A number of prisoners and a considerable amount, of booty not yet established hao been taken. Fighting on Slokhod. The fihtiiic in the Sloklmd rivor Mistrii t is also turning in favor of the I Teutons, Herlin reports. The war of-ifice of-ifice at rvtrniriad today says th'-ro have ijceti no cents of importance. The Gorman Gor-man statement says: ()n the Stnl;hod front we made n pnrcesrtfnl advance near the Sito-wie7.o, Sito-wie7.o, southwest, of Wviniiie.e. The I'ussians attacked vainly in Ihe region re-gion of Ifukulowee. Xorih f,f bo-row bo-row on Thursday we eaplured threp officers ,"nd seventy ii;eii. South of Strik la n xiira, in the Iowa sector nd on the ('oinan, our cuiiriter at-tacks at-tacks were completely sii'-cessf u I. -Near jmv i k i au.u ra lour nnirers and .".'i'l m-'ii were ca I'tu re.), In the Kirlihnba. serf or Russian a dark" were epiib-erl. The l!ii'd;arevt report ivf: The f ight inr js (.-nei'a I on the nort h and uort h-.v extern f ron t f, here we ford: fi'ffl irionerj. Our trorjj.t ;i( Siliia f Hermann-stailt Hermann-stailt , attarked on till -ides bv so T-prior pr:emv foT-e, af'er a bat Ho bv Hirn fan e .lavs, re established 1"eir eiiiniriii nir-a t ion to the ,ruth, renjjiii('.' the enemy, who was a t ta'-kini: from that direction. Our trooj .: retire. southward. Bulbars Capture Trench. SOKI A. S-r-f. !"'. via Iy:irJ..ji. SV). SO. 1:f''i p- in. !!iilari;ni troop.-, rt--r ro- I (Continued on Pac Twenty one, HI ROUTED BY TEUTONIC Ml (Continued from Page One.) nulstnir a Prbinn attack on Cue Kai:n;-k- C-.l'.i.. n IlLMiliS On :f Mac'-,,,,-);, J l-'Mlt, made a counter at:a- k and v.i pi " ), 1 a tre.-.ch f.iriiiif-c part of tiie t-ri n-. p-, ! Se. -bian r-osl; :oi,, it w;is anr.ounct-.l h.cre today. P. M11S. Sent. ?0. via hoii-inii, 2 :T.P p. m - -The wr -of;j--e nnnr-'.n. -d todny ' I .a ; .. Freii'-c. -o;.!rt nr., ; :, rt . , ,. -ecter-dav ."t o -i t:.- A:i . .lorian tror.t. As:"-f) over r; Jcana. o; o;rr;n borel -s on Sr.;i:., and ir.r.- It." fi,!;:,l :o j,u,-:sa r--r . No j :i.-: vy :'--fhti:i' 0:1 the M-ir-so,,,;, f;nt .s reported. |