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Show IBS Army Crosses the Danube Dan-ube River Between Rustchuk and Turtu-kai; Turtu-kai; Enerhy Repulsed Along the Whole Front in the Dobrudja Region. GROUND IS GAINED IN TRANSYLVANIA Teutons Successful in Strehl Valley, According Accord-ing to Berlin Report; Serbians Follow Up Their Victory in Macedonia Mace-donia and Make Further Fur-ther Gains. (Ppe.lnl TnMe br Arrangement Willi l.rnifioi Dailr Teler:iai:i ai.d IlHeriialiona Nerva fenk-e.) LOXJJOX, Oct. 2. An invasion of Bulgaria by Rumanian troops who crossed tho Danube yesterday at a point almost directly south of Bucharest and about fifty miles from the capital is believed to have an important strategic bearing on the complicated military operations op-erations in eastern Lurope. The passage of (he river occurred between be-tween Rustchuk, a strongly defended Bulgariau city, and Turtukai, the fortress for-tress wrested from the Rumanians with heavy losses in men and supplies imnic-diate' imnic-diate' following their entry into the war. Although details are lacking, it is bcliovcd here that ironclads liavo been operating in theower reaches of the great river, covering the transportation transporta-tion of troops. Fight in Dobrudja. Contemporaneously with this invasion, tho Russian Rumanian army which has been contest ing Von Mac ken sen 's advance ad-vance in Dubrudja began an offensive! along tho whole front. ' ' Wo repulsed the Bulgarian Tent on army on its center cen-ter and right," says au official report, from Bucharest tonight. The two movements n re believed to bo parts of a single plan and related closely, as well, to the more extensive prosecutioji of t li o cam pa ign in M ace-donia. ace-donia. The enterprise as a whole is aimed at cutting off Turkey a nd Bulgaria. Bul-garia. Fighting in Transylvania. The German war office today reports tho passage of llio Danube. In Transylvania Tran-sylvania hard fighting continues. North of Fogaras, on hntli bides of tho great Kukul river, the Rum a it inns have gained ground. In t he Hatzan mountains moun-tains between Hcrmannstadt and Petro-Kcny Petro-Kcny (heir efforts to ad ancc wero defeated. de-feated. Tho Teutons have been successful success-ful in at tacks near Orsuva, which is in Human ian hands. "Southwest of Toprnisari, iu Dnhiudja, at t arks were rejui Ised, ' says Heidi n. Further details reaching Berlin of the rout of the Rumanian foice in the battle bat-tle of 1 lermannMadt lead to the belief there tli at the Rumanians have lost about one-third of their tut ul fighting forces in (lie past month in Transylvania Transyl-vania and Dolu ud ja. The Bucharest official statement payB: On the nort h and nor! Ii western fronts fighting continues. In the in on n tains at G hurgill and lerghit-zei lerghit-zei we rnp'und four machine guns and made prisoner eleven officers and TjOU men. Southern front: Our troopi rrospcd the. Da nu he between Rustchuk Rust-chuk and Turtukai. In Dnbrudjn we attacked along the whole, f rout and repuked t he en em v on his center and right 1 flank'. GERMANS ADMIT LATEST SUCCESS OF RUMANIANS Hr.IIidV. via London. O-t. 2. p. tn. M'jrnaniKii trnojm havr gained a fuotlni: on n- rli-lit 1..jiK of the Danube river Hniitli oi H i' hat '! . m h t h- of fi fin I tate-Hnt tate-Hnt i?;u.,1 1 . ;!:-. an yneral iK-ftdinjar-tf-j-u inir '-i'lhii-' the hiihtirnj In 7" ratify 1-v.Tila 1-v.Tila and 1 rnd y.i . in Tra ns viva n ia thS Km mania of ha vp ua tn-d u'"ini('i on hot h Kidf of tn- Rieaf Knk'd i!v-r. north oi' Fnara-J. Teutonic troops, the t a I p. i nen t (Continued on Paae TwoJ WHS HE BIlLBffl TERRITORY (Continued from Page One.) adds, have gained successes in the Strehl valley, also in Transylvania. The statement follows: Siebenbuergen (Transylvania) theater: the-ater: On both sides of the great Knkel river the Rumanians have won ground. Near and north of Orsova (on the Danube), successful attacks have been made by our allies. Tn the Hataeg mountains enemy attacks on both sides of the Strehl (Sztrigy) valley were repulsed. Oboroca heights was itaken by Austrian troops. South of Bucharest enemy troops have gained a footing on the right bank of the Danube. Southwest of Toprai Sari (bobrudja) enemy attacks were repulsed. |