Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 1 | Allies Begin Big Push on All Fronts

ALLIES BEGIN BIG PUSH ON ALL AU FRONTS IN SMASHING MA MACKENSEN I II I Large Russ Russian an F Fd IC J Joins R Rumanians uma lIa 1 0 p Along D and Open N New w Attack Both Allied Wings Advancing Ad i ir Macedonia Cz Czars Czar's r S Soldiers Rep Report rt G Gains ns Near Near Lemberg By Bv United Unite Press LONDON Oct 7 Smash ling ing with he heavy vy hammer blows the Russo-Rumanians Russo ar are tat l I tel tempting to drive Mack ns n s 's army Bulgar Bulgar- Bulgar out of by a t swift turning movement movement move move- ment merit Petrograd dispatches rey revealed aled tonight V V A large Russian force foree lauded landed at l lW the l lR R Eun anian port of oE Constanza join joined d' d the forces forces' s t operating g along tb the D Danube Dan Dan- V I ube and and- launched a sudden S 'S ta tac 1 against Mackensen's right wing jt RUSsi Russian il war office today an oun t the capture of t vi villages and a a series oE ot heights between thom Tho Tim Rumanian n i war office offic tonight reported reporter the capture of more mor German tr trenches oChes I in the same region Lon London on military men are awaiting with tense interest the outcome oC oE the great battle raging In Striking at Mackensen's right flank toe the Rumanians Russo-Rumanians are striving to bend in this wing press the Teutonic forces back against the Black sea an and force the evacuation of by bythe the threat of envelopment and cap I ture RUMANIANS ACTIVE I An unconfirmed Rome flome wireless dl dla- dla V patch this afternoon declared a anew anew new Rumanian force had crossed the th I Danube- Danube for a fresh invasion of BulI Bulgaria Bul- Bul I garia presumably as a part of the I turning campaign On all the fronts the allies are now on the offensive according to official official off i cial dispatches from allied capitals The Rumanian war office announced tonight that the Rumanians have r re resumed re- re their offensive in the mountain defiles after suffering reverses reverses re- re verses in Transylvania Both allied wings are advancing in hr I Macedonia The British have occupied occupied pied several villages east of or the ma river driving the Bulgarians bacin barkin bark back in disorder On the left wing Serbs V and French troops are drawing closer Joser Continued on par 2 V ALLIES BEGIN Continued from page 1 1 to Monastir V while the tho have taken the offensive east of the river RUSS REPORT GAINS The Russians are continuing their heavy attacks against the Austro Ger man front and have gained some ground southeast of Lemberg LONDON Oct 7 The The allies aUles resumed re ye- their offensive on the Ule Somme front today with brilliant strikes n north rth of ot the river General Haigs Haig's men swinging for ward with their left wing carried earned the village of by assault and now look down the Albert highway toward Bapaume three miles mUes away With their right wing the British drove forward forward for for- ward from to 1000 yards toward the Bethune road leading Into Bapaume Bapaume Bapaume Ba- Ba from the southeast FRENCH MAKE GAINS The Tha French under General Fort I at af about abour th the same hour cooperating cooperating co- co j operating perfectly with the tb British according to tonight's report from the French war war- office French infantry pushed forward 1200 yards northeast of Morval to within yards of the village o of Sallly SaIlly taking prisoners including ten officers and fifteen machine guns As the result of today's operations the French now hold bold the whole Bapaume Bapaume Ba Ba- aume road from a point yards from Sailly Sallly extending along the western and southwestern fringes of or St. St Pierre wood along hill bill to a point south of South of or the Somme and on the northeast front of Verdun violent artillery artillery ar ar- tillery duels continued through the day but there were no important infantry infantry in infantry in- in fantry operations P PARIS ARS Oct 7 A A brilliant assault by French infantry today carried the French lines 1200 yards northeast of Morval It was officially announced tonight Four hundred prisoners In Including Including In- In eluding ten officers and fifteen machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns were captured BERLIN Oct 7 Without a moments moment's moments moment's moments moment's mo mo- ments ment's lull ull In the fighting Field Marshal Falkenhayn Ls ts pressing his of offensive offensive offensive of- of against as th the Rumanians in Transylvania and is driving the Rumanians Rumanians Ru Ru- back toward their own frontier fron fron- tier The war office this this- afternoon announced announced an an- capture of frontier h heights near and the complete repulse of Rumanian counter attacks in Geister wood Falkenhayn has ex extended extended ex- ex tended his offensive to the southwest and is driving back the Rumanian force that penetrated Hungary near In heavy fighting continues but repulse of ot all Russo Russo- Rumanian attacks was announced Both the Austrian and German of official ot- ot tidal statements statements' comment on the violence of the n new w Russian att attacks eks particularly southeast of Lemberg In fighting around the Slavs Slays have suffered enormous losses and have gained ground only at isolated isolated iso iso- points On the Somme front the French Trench ad advanced advanced advanced ad- ad into German positions southwest southwest southwest south south- west of Sailly Elsewhere attacks were repulsed 1 ROME ROME Oct 7 One 7 One of the Busa Alta Alto peaks peales has been captured by the Italians the defenders having been practically wiped out it was officially announced tonight Twenty survivors were captured red