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Show GERMAN FORCES I JOIN ON DANUBE; FORMING OF SOUTHERN ARM OF GIANT TEUTON NUT-CRACKER HAS COME TO PASS. Contact Established Places Bar of Iron and Steel Square Through Roumania From the Alps j to the Danube. j London. "We are in touch, with the forces that crossed the Danube." ( In this brief, concise report, the Berlin war office Sunday afternoon made known that the final blow to Roumania has been dealt. The junction junc-tion between General von Falkenhayn, sweeping down upon Bucharest from the north and west, and 'Field Marshal von Mackensen, forming the southern arm of the giant Teuton "nut-cracker," has come to pass. Losing no time after his crossing of the river, Mackensen, in a swift dash, pushed north to the gates of Alexandria, Alexan-dria, forty-seven miles southwest of Bucharest, and thence sent cavalry, detachments northwestward to meet the "scouts" delegated by Von Faiken-hayn. Faiken-hayn. The contact thus established between be-tween the two Teuton commanders places a bar of iron and steel square through Roumania from the Transylvania Transyl-vania Alps down to the Danube. A violent bombardment of the Russian Rus-sian front east of Lemberg is reported by the war office at Petrograd. Considerable Con-siderable activity in the air also was announced in an official statement. Bad weather continues to hinder the operations on the Macedonian front as a consequence of which no infantry action of consequence was reported by the various war offices Sunday. Sofia announced the repulse of an Italian attack against the village of Tarnova, west of Monastir, while Paris claimed fresh Italian progress toward that village. German submarine warfare against colliers has caused such a serious shortage of coal in France that many important war industries are threatened threat-ened with being completely closed down. Twenty thousand French civilians from the occupied districts of France are about to be returned to France from Germany. Trains each carrying 500 persons will effect the transportation transporta-tion before Christmas. |