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Show TEUTONIC ALLIES DEFEATJp AUSTRO-GERM ANS RECAPTURE TOWN WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF THE BORDER. Serbians in Considerable Force Capture Cap-ture Town Near Monastir. Considerable Con-siderable Hard Fighting in Galicia. j London. Of the battlefronts in Europe, Eu-rope, those of Transylvania and Macedonia Mace-donia continue for the moment the tenters of greatest interest. According Accord-ing to Berlin, the Rumanians in Transylvania Tran-sylvania are retreating along the whole line. The Teutonic allies have recaptured the town of Toerzburg, fifteen fif-teen miles southwest of Kronstadt iand within seven miles of the Rumanian Ruma-nian border. i On the Danube north of Sistova the Germans have occupied an island, taking tak-ing six guns and making prisoners of the Rumanian troops there. 1 A Bucharest dispatch forwarded from Rome says the Rumanians evacuated evac-uated the Transylvanian city of Kronstadt Kron-stadt to avoid its destruction by Aus-tro-German batteries, which had begun be-gun to fire on the town. The present position of the Rumanian army is described de-scribed as excellent. Serbians in considerable force have crossed the Cerna river in Serbia and captured the town of Skochivir, southeast south-east of Monastir, and also have occupied occu-pied positions along the north bank of the river. Considerable hard fighting has again taken place in the region west 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 Volhynia Succeeded in entering Austro-German positions east of Vladimir-Volyuski, but 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 pf France. Infantry attacks also have taken place, but no important gains have been chronicled. |