Millard County Chronicle | 1915-12-23 | Page 16 | Roumanians Turn; Capture Trenches

ROUMANIANS TURN; CAPTURETREIiCHES SUCCESSES BY TEUTONIC ALLIE9 PARTLY OFFSET BY LOSS OF TRENCHES. Russians Driven from Stronghold While Turks Capture Roumanian Town British Troops Launch Attack at Serre. 1 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 ol trenches of the Austro-German forces along the Moldavian frontier, in the region of the Kasino river. At another point on the Moldavian .frontier, north of the Salnlc 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 Ser-elh Ser-elh line resulted in the capture . ol 'Turkish troops of the Roumanian town K)f Nihalta, northwest of Braila, and 400 men of Its garrison. Others ol .the defending force, attempting to ;escape, were drowned in the Sereth. .The Bulgarians have taken a monastery monas-tery near the confluence of the Buzeau juid Sereth rivers. Heavy fighting is in progress on both sides of the Oituz valley in the mountains of Moldavia, where strong atlacks by both invaders and defenders defend-ers were repulsed. & Aside from the Roumanian war the- tYre, activity was developed in the Viga sector of the Russo-German front Ind at Serre, on the Somme front in I V ance. A German attack by heavy V-oes south of Lake Babit, at the I Tier'S oJ jJ'afiUS3lal1 front, Vfis repulsedrW( T British troops tauncheuNy new tack against Serre and gainc! a 00 ing in one Mf the advanced ""an positions, "therwise, only ariV51? fighting in the region of ChaulncN reported along the French front. '- The irsual artillery duels were niaintrvined along the whole Austro-German Austro-German line. Entente aues advancing toward Stravina T, J'1""" were checked. A Russian squadron is reported tc have rallied the Anatolian coast oi the Black 'sea and"1 sunk forty Turkish Turk-ish sailing vessels carrying food tc Constantinople.