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Show I ROUMANIANS ARE YIELDING GROUND FALL BACK BEFORE ADVANCING GERMANS, THE RUSIANS ALSO SUFFERING DEFEAT. Mackensen Scores Gains in Dobrudja, While the British Troops Capture f Strong Position From the Turks. London. Roumanians first Christ. mas as a participant in the war witnessed wit-nessed heavy fighting on the Roumanian Rouma-nian front in Walachia. Ground was yielded by the Roumanians at some points under the pressure of the Germans, Ger-mans, and north of the Buze-R.mnifc road a height was lost by the Russians. Rus-sians. . In the northwest corner of Dobrudja Dobrud-ja province, the sector to which tha Russo-Roumanlan retreat has taken them, the army of Field Marshal von Mackensen has begun to attack tha bridgehead of Matchin after Isakishe, on the eastern bank of the Danube, was captured. In addition to an-nouncing an-nouncing the evacuation of Isakishe, the Russians admit the occupation ol Tultcha. British mounted troops, with the co-operation af aircraft, carried a strong position at Maghdaga, twenty miles distant from El Arish, which was captured Thursday. Incomplete reports, says the statement from Lorn don, show that 1,130 prisoners were captured and a large quantity of arms and war material taken. Heavy casualties cas-ualties were suffered by the Turks. The Russians claim to have inflict) ed heavy losses on the Austro-Ger mans when the latter attempted ta recapture heights occupied by th Russians Sunday in the wooded Cap pathians. Macedonia, except for an artillerj struggle, is void of momentous ar tivity. The same is true generally ol the Austro-Italian theater, except foi the Julian front, where even such operations have been prevented by mist. Two British destroyers have been sunk in a collision in the North sea. Fifty-five officers and men were lost, |