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Show ROUMANIANS TURN; CAPTURETREIICHES SUCCESSES BY TEUTONIC ALLIES PARTLY OFFSET BY LOSS OF TRENCHES. Russians Driven from Stronghold While Turks Capture Roumanian Town British Troops Launch Attack at Serre. London. Further successes by the Teutonic allies on the lower line of the Sereth river near its junction with the Danube are partly offset by a Roumanian advance and the capture oi trenches of the Austro-German forces along the Moldavian frontier, in the region of the Kasino river. At another point 6n the Moldavian frontier, north of the Salnic valley, the invading army delivered a strong attack and drove the Russians from a height, capturing machine guns, mine throwers and a number men. Fierce fighting along the lower Sereth Ser-eth line resulted in the capture oi Turkish troops of the Roumanian town of Nihalea, northwest of Braila, and 400 men of its garrison. Others oi the defending force, "attempting tc escape, were drowned in the Sereth. The Bulgarians have taken a monastery monas-tery near the confluence of the Buaeau and Sereth rivers. Heavy fighting is in progress on both sides of the Oituz valley in the mountains of Moldavia, where strong attacks by both invaders" and defenders defend-ers were repulsed. Aside from the Roumanian war theatre, the-atre, activity was developed in the Riga sector of the Russo-German front and at Serre. on the Somme front in France. A Jerman attack by heavj forces south of Lake Babit, at the northern end of the Russian front, was repulsed. British troops launched a new attack at-tack against Serre and gained a foot ing in one of the advanced GermaD positions. Otherwise, only artillery fighting in the region of Chaulnes is reported along the French front. The usual artillery duels were maintained along the whole Austro-German Austro-German line. Entente forces advancing toward Stravina in acedonia were checked. A Russian squadron is . reported to have raided the Anatolian coast ol the Black sea and sunk forty Turkish Turk-ish sailing vessels carrying food to Constantinople. |