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Show TEUTOHIC ALLIES DEFEATRUMAHIAHS AUSTRO-GERMANS RECAPTURE town w:thin SEVEN MILES OF THE BORDER. Serbians in Considerable Force Cap ture Town Near Monastir. Considerable Con-siderable Hard Fighting in Galicia. : London. Of the bat.tlefronts in Ku-rope, Ku-rope, tliouc of Tran:-ylvania and Mace (Ionia continue for the moment the Centers of greatest interest. Accord ing to Rerlin, the Rumanians In Trail nylvania are retreating along the whole line. The Teutonic allies have recaptured the town of Toer.burg, lit teen miles southwest of Krom.tadt and within seven miles of the Ruma nian border. On the Danube north of Sistova the Germans have occupied an island, tak Ing six guns and making prisoners ol the Rumanian troops there. A Bucharest dispatch forwarded from Koine says the Rumanians evac uated the Transylvanian city of Kron Kindt to avoid its destruction by Aus iro-Gerruan batteries, which had be-t:n be-t:n to lire on the town. The present position of the Rumanian army is de scribed as excellent. Serbians in considerable force have crossed the .('erna river in Serbia and captured the town of Skochivir, southeast south-east of MonastLr, and also have occupied occu-pied positions along the north bank ol the river. Considerable hard fighting has again taken place in the region wesl of Lutsk and farther south in Galicia, but the results are somewhat beclouded becloud-ed by reason of contradictory war office statements. Petrograd says the Russians at some points in Volliynia succeeded in entering Austro-German positions east of Vladimir-Volynski, 1ml. Berlin reports that these attacks failed, with sanguinary losses to the Russians. In the Carpathians the Germans Ger-mans have made an advance at Baba-ludowa. Baba-ludowa. Violent reciprocal bombardments are in progress in the Somme region, of France. Infantry attacks also have j ,taken place, but no important gains j have been chronicled. |