Show INV ADERS ARE WITHIN 36 MILES OF RUMANIAN At STEEL Tl RIN ni nir Of r ClO ING ON 8 BUCHAREST CHARE 1 Bulgarian and German Germ Arm Armies es Smashing for foi City in Greatest Offensive Offensive Offensive Of- Of in Force in Wary WalI War Wai I By y 7 Proa Pi to The on e eLONDON LONDON Nov 25 Ru Ru Rumania mania tonight faced the offensive now now in force in all thi th Europ European an war war Part pf Of its army apparently apparent nearly enveloped in Little by Von Falkenhayn's Teutonic forces today's official statements from froni Oer Ger man Bulgarian Russian and aci even Ru j manar capitals showed the offensive movements I Von Falkenhayn's flanking move movement movements I ments ment operating out of ot Oreo Oro va Severin and arid from south o 0 Rotenturm pass lIas I NEW MOVEMENT MENACES A ew menacing movement t thre e jp by Eul Bu garlans Sofia g Sofia claiming success A vigorous thrust I across the the- Danube In th n nI I ere Fi bY Field by td Marshal Marsha I sen Berlin claimed successful I launched ID In addition to to these t there there- er was apparentlY up- up no rio letup In th the pressure to tc b exPected expected fromi Hungary from Iun ary southward l or orthe orthe orthe the Transylvanian Alps I It is evident that the ar an combining for a tremendously I powerful powerful power power- ful drive Bucharest Accepting althe althe al 81 the Teutonic allies allies' statements as accurate accurate ac curate German or Bulgarian are now distant t from Bucharest n fl follows follow Islands in the Danube claimed b bj Sofia to have been en occupied b by theli forces at Giurgiu s six miles due south south- of Bucharest FOOTHOLD IN RUMANIA Crossing of ot th the thA Danube in and gaining a a n. foothold on soil poll on claimed by Berlin probably no nd than five sixty miles distant j J of f the lower Alt AIt rive river river- claimed b by Berlin probably miles distant Fighting in t te e Transylvanian Alps Ip still hotly in progress makes jh a about out ninety miles distant ai I Ithe the north from the Rumanian capital l The Petrograd statement toda today th some light on what must be the efforts ef cf f forts of the Rumanian forc forces s Berlin claims to tt have ejected from 0 Or- Or sova soya Severin and tc t. break through the circle of ot the e enemy eem em It rt reported a a. forced retirement of th thE Rumanians behind behiM the river It admitted a retreat southward In th Alt valley It confirmed crossing oj the Danube b by the Bulgarians near PLAN OF CAMPAIGN In view of 01 these statements military mili mill- tary tai experts believed the Germanic plan of campaign now stood revealed While Von Falkenhayn squeezed hi Circle Ircle tighter compelling the Rumanians Ruman I ians tans to retreat nearer and n nearer tr the southern border the Bulgarian I are Bre suddenly thrown in force at thc I Danube boundary line in efforts t tr tl I cut off this Rumanian avenue of e cs- cs t Continued on e 4 4 STEEL RING I Continued Continued from page 1 cape cape while at the same time menacing menacing nac- nac I ing ins Buch Bucharest rest J The Rumanian official statement I declared the Bulgarian advance from and probably has been arrested successfully Berlin admitted tenacious res resistance stance from I th the t forces which Von Falkenhayn n is attempting to encircle What was Vas of most hope here In the situation was the tIle fact that none of ot the Teutonic allies allies' al allies allies' allies allies' al- al lies' lies statements have yet claimed any considerable capture of or prisoners nor of war materials materials indicating Indicating success of the Rumanians so f far r in eluding the enemy's vise By United Coiled Pr Free Freu to 10 Tiro Tho Tl BERLIN BERLIN Via Sayville Wireless ss Nov 25 Advance 5 Advance of Turkish troops in the Caucasus on a front of forty kilometers I about twenty-five twenty miles was claimed I I in the Constantinople report of November November Novem Novem- ber 21 received here today Prisoners 1 and war booty was captured and the statement asserts the Russians are I daily losing by desertions I By Br United Press Pross to 10 The Th Telegram I BERLIN Via Sayville Wireless Nov 25 Clearing 25 Clearing of or the recent extremely I formidable weather in the Italian war wag U theatre Is ca causing a resumption of ot ar artillery artillery artillery ar- ar I tillery fighting the war office statement statement statement state state- ment declared tonight By Br United Press Proa to The Tho Telegram BERLIN Via Sayville Wireless Wireless' Nov 25 How 25 How Lieutenant of the Austro aerial forces opposIng opposing opposing ing the Russians In the Brody sector on the Russo Austrian line defeated three Russian fliers forcing them to descend precipitately was told In a press bureau statement tonight By Br United Gaited Pees Fred to 10 Tho Telegram LONDON Nov 2 25 Amid 2 Amid stormy weather German Gelman forces have been acI active ac- ac I tive in artillery firing and trench mor- mor tar bombardment of British positions south of the in the neighborhood of ot General Sir Douglas Haig Halg reported tonight We shelled important points behind the enemy's front he concluded By Br United Press to The Tho Telegram BERLIN Via Sayville Wireless Nov 25 25 In In the district of the enemy continues his tenacious re resistance resistance re- re the press press' b bureau reau declared tonight describing the Rumanian fight fight- I ing g. g |