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Show WITHDRAW f 10 THEIR f FRONTIER K 7 I Kronstadt, Seized Short-ly Short-ly After the Invasion t of Transylvania, Again in Austrian Hands; At- " tempt Will Be Made to Defend the Passes. REPORTS DIFFER f AS TO RETREAT ; Hard Fighting on the Long Galician and Vol-hynian Vol-hynian Front Subsides; Contending Forces Ex- hausted by Desperate Nature of Struggle. ( I (Spf'lal CnblB by Arrangement willi London Dally Telegraph and International News Service.) F LONDON, Oct. 3. Kronstadt, which the Rumanian army seized shortly after Its invasion of Transylvania, is again in Aus- ' trian hands. The Rumanian invaders 5, have withdrawn to their frontier all along f - the line from that city to Hermann- Fladt. v- While the German official report 1m- plies that Kronstadt was retaken by force f of arms, a statement tonight from Bucha- l rest describes the operation as a stragetic j move Impelled by the threats of superior I forces. Its object, says the Rumanian war office, was "to Insure a strong' defense of the four passes leading from Rumania to Kronstadt." The Teuton victory at Hermannstadt on October 2 rendered the position of the Rumanian forces in that section of Tran-, Tran-, , aylvania untenable. After that decisive battle, a strong Teutonic army was thrown down the Alt valley in a frontal attack on Kronstadt. The hard fighting which has been In r progress on the long Galician and Vbl-V Vbl-V t 1 hynian front appears to have subsided ft nl most completely, probably upon the ex- haustlon of the contending forces. i The war chancellories of the - principal I " nations Involved, Russia, Germany and Austria, all report tonight that nothing of i m port ance has occurred within the past I .- twenty-four hours. |