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Show ; - j Rumanian Front Continues j as Scene of Hard Fighting; I Berlin Claims Further Gains i , I j Russians Repulsed in Galicia With Heavy Losses I in Attack on Germans Repeated Seven I Bucharest, Nov. 3, via London, 2:20 p. m. The war office announced today that in the fighting along the Hun- nd'f garian-Rumanian frontier the Rumanian forces had driven I I the Austrians and Germans across the border at Table Butzi. The Rumanians made an attack in Buzeu valley, occupying S Mount Siriul and Taturumio. . g I London, Nov. 3, 1 :40 p. m. A Rome despatch to the 6 5 Wireless Press says the first day of the new Italian offensive H j cost the Austrians the loss of 1 5,000 men. g J One-third of them were made prisoners, the despatch says. (The Italian war office reported that 4,73 1 prisoners had been 4 V taken) . The Twenty-first Austrian regiment and several bat-Oj bat-Oj talions are said to have been annihilated. J The weather is favorable and the .battle against the 5 heights east of Gorizia and on the Carso continues fiercely, j Austrian counter attacks are described as feeble. h Fort Vaux is again in French hands $j i and with Douaumont already regain- & ed the ring of defensive fortifications f around Verdun Jias been re-estab- Hshed. 3 On the Somme front, Berlin admitH "3 . loss of portions of the village of Sail- i ly-Sailllsel, but announces the repulse , of British attacks east of Guedecourt 31 and of French advances upon the 2 i northern part of St. Pierre-Vaast fl i wood. a The Rumanian front continues the ' scene of hard fighting. Berlin claims further penetration of Rumanian ter- 2 ; titory southeast of Rothenthurm pass and southwest of Predeal. ;' In Galicia the Russians attempted : to regain recently lost in the district ; southeast of Leinbenr. along the Nar- yuvka, but, according to the German report, their attack, seven times re- peated, was repulsed with exceptionally exception-ally heavy casualties to them. Paris, Nov. 3, noon. The French i occupied Fort Vaux last evening after - waiting for the cessation of great explosions inside the fort, the war office of-fice reported today. The fort, evacu-; evacu-; ated1 by the Germans yesterday, pass-; pass-; ed again into the possession of the French without loss to them. -i ' The Germans gave up the fori, the m ' statement says, as a result of the vio-2j vio-2j , lent French bombardment and the g gradually closing in of French troops. I '. The entrance of the French into this position was not contested. The ring of Verdun forts is now re-established and is held firmly by the French. Ground Lost to French, i ; Berlin, Nov. 3. (By wireless to Say- vllle.) Portions of Sallly-Salllisel on the Somme front which were taken by the Germans were again lost to the French yesterday, tho war office announced an-nounced today. Attempts of the allies to advance 1 . east of Guedecourt and against the northern part of St. Pierre-Vaast wood resulted in failure. The statement reads: "Fighting activity was generally within moderate limits. Isolated sections sec-tions in the Somme district were under un-der strong artillery fire. "Houses in Sallly that had been taken by us were lost again yesterday morning in hand-to-hand fighting. "Hostile advances east ond Geude-court Geude-court and against the northern part of St. Pierre-Vaast wood failed. "Towards evening the French fire against Fort Vaux decreased." t . Russians Charge Seven Times. Berlin, Nov. 3. (By wireless to Say-ville.) Say-ville.) Russian troops charged seven times yesterday in an attempt to recapture re-capture positions taken by the Ger-i Ger-i mans on tho Narayuvlca river south-: south-: east of Lemberg. They suffered ex- ccptionally severo losses, the war of- jji : fjpe announced, and gained no Buccess. The statement follows: ! .. "The Russians suffered exceptional- ly severe losses during unsucessful I attempts, seven times repeated, to re-capture re-capture tho positions stormed by us I on October 30 west of Folv-Kasno-, les on the left bank of the Narayuv-f Narayuv-f ka." :; AuBtro-Germans Gaining. Berlin, Nov. 3. (By wireless to Say. villo.) Austro-German forces have penetrated further into Rumania in the districts southwest of Predeal and southeast of Rothenthurm pass, it was a ; announced officially today, a The statemont follows: jm ' "On the southern Transylvanian i front Rumanian attacks were repulsed Mi by our fire or in bayonet fighting. Southwest of Predeal and southeast of Rothernthurm pass we made an adyanco pursuing the enemy and capturing cap-turing more than 350 Rumanians. "Balkan front Dobrudja and Macedonia) Mace-donia) : There were no events of Importance." Im-portance." Bulgars Repulse Weak Attacks. Sofia, Nov. 2 (via London, Nov. 3, 9:05 a. m.) The official statement of the Bulgarian war office today says: "Macedonian front: Detachments of the enemy which penetrated north of Lake Malik were pursued eastward by our troops. At the bend of the Cerna we repulsed weak attacks. At the foot of Belaschitza and on the artillery activity. During the fight-ing fight-ing of October 31 in the Struma valley val-ley the enemy suffered heavy losses In the sector between Chiristos and Barakli-Djuma. We found 500 un-buried un-buried dead, many fresh graves andt a large quantity of equipment scat-' tered about. ")n the Aegean coast one of the enemy's monitors unsuccessfully bombarded bom-barded our positions at Orfano. "Rumanian front: Unchanged. Four hostile warships bombarded Kustend-je Kustend-je causing no casualties or damage. Our coast batteries forced the ships to retire. On the Danube near Rust-chuk Rust-chuk and Bevichtoff there has been reciprocal artillery fire." |
