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Show TEUTONS CRUSH ! THE ROMANIANS Falkenhayn and Mackensen Have Joined Forces in Their j Great Drives., j i ! Paris, Nov. 2C With the armies of the Teutonic 'allies advancing toward , it from the west and southwest, Bucharest, Bu-charest, the capital of Rumania, is in peril. Field Marshal von Mackensen's troops have crossed the Danube 'to Zimnitza and are in touch near Alexandria, Alex-andria, with the forces of General von Falkenhayn. All along the front on the Walla-chlan Walla-chlan plains east of the Alt river, the Rumnnians are in flight, burning towns behind them, says Berlin. On the heights of Curtea-Dearges, and in western Moldavia, the Rumanians Ruma-nians are offering effective resistance to the southward advance of the Teutons. Teu-tons. There has been no Indication of the arrival of Russian reinforcements to aid the Rumanians on the Wallachlan plains. In the Macedonian theatre there has been infantry action except on i the left wing, where the Italians have ' made further progress toward Trnova, near the Monastir-Prcsba lake road, , according to Paris. This statement is ; contradicted by tho Sofia war office. Sofia also denies a recent French report re-port that the French had captured Do-bromir. Do-bromir. Little Activity on West Front. On the French front except for small attacks, little activity has been displayed. There has been considerable artillery artil-lery firing along the eastern front from the Riga region to the Carpathians, Carpa-thians, wilh the Germans tho aggressors aggres-sors and also on the Austro-ltalian front, with the Auslrians on the initiative. ini-tiative. FALKENHAYN JOINS WITH VON MACKENSEN'S FORCES Berlin, Nov. 26. (By wireless to Say-ville.) Say-ville.) General von Falkenhayn's troops, invading western Rumania, from the north and west, have effected effect-ed a junction with Field Marshal von Mackensen's forces that have advanced ad-vanced from the south and crossed the Danube Into Rumanian territory, the war office announced today. Driving toward Bucharest, Von Mackensen's advance has reacned me outskirts of Alexandria, forty-seven miles from the Rumanian capital. Tho Rumanians retreating eastward are burning towns as they retire, according ac-cording to tho official statement, which also reports the repulse of a Rumanian cavalry division protecting the retreat. The report says Von Mackensen's entire army has crossed the Danube under his personal inspection. inspec-tion. Advancing south down the Alt valley, val-ley, General von Falkenhayn's forces havo captured Rammicu (Ramnitzu) and Valcea. In Dobrudja an attack on Macken-"sen's Macken-"sen's lines, aided by a bombardment from warships, was a failure, declares the statement. |
