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Show iiuiiii SUC jEEDS After Five Days of Desperate Des-perate Fighting in the Important Sector Around Orsova the Troops of Franz Josef Are Withdrawn to West Bank of the Cer-na Cer-na River. VIENNA ADMITS GREAT REVERSE Earlier Statement Claims Repulse of the Invaders on August 31, but Announces Evacuation Evacua-tion of Two Positions Before the Enemy Arrived. Ar-rived. (Spvla Cuhle hr Arrangement with London Dally Telegraph and International New Service.) LONDON, Sept. 2. With the Ru-miniums Ru-miniums making continued wide incursions incur-sions on Hungarian soil and seriously threatening Orsova, at the iron nates of the Danube, Field Marshal Von lliu-denhurjj, lliu-denhurjj, new chief of the German general gen-eral staff, is reported to have sent 50,000 German troops to the front to halt the invaders. Rumanian attacks on the Austrians in the important sector around Orsova have been successful. The Austrian official statement, issued today, announces 'that after rive days of heavy fighting in this region Austrian troops wero withdrawn to the west bank of the C'erna river. The Austrians admit a withdrawal in the Orsova region as well as along the southern Carpathian front, where Her-manstadt, Her-manstadt, Krnnstadt and other impor- taut i-itics have fallen into the hands of the Rumanians. The invaders already al-ready have pressed twenty miles into Transylvania and dispatches from Bucharest Buch-arest sav Maroc Vasarhely, sixty-six' miles within the Hungarian frontier and dominating point of the central Trail- 1 sy ha nia valley, already is heing evacuated. evacu-ated. 1 A declaration of war .by Rumania against Turkey is announced today. It was issued in Bucharest on Wednesday ; night, but owing to interrupted communications com-munications between Bucharest and Constantinople, Con-stantinople, did not roach the sublime porte until today. |