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Show ; Russian and Rumanian ; Troops Pushed Back by the Teutons. Berlin, Oct 22, via wireless to Say-;. Say-;. ville The war office announced to-; to-; day that Field Marshal von Macken-sen's Macken-sen's array in Dobrudja had gained u decisive victory over the Russians and i Rumanians, driving them from their V positions over the whole front. Topral : Sari and Cobadin have been taken by i the combined Austrian-Germans, Bui- garian and Turkish forces, ij On the Transylvania front hard, II but Indecisive fighting continues in :i the mountain passes. Petrograd says 1 the Rumanians have been forced back In the Buzen valley. Bucharest, how-i how-i "ever, does not concede this, assorting f 'that Teutonic counter-attacks were 5 repulsed at tho point of the bayonet. : 1 The battle of the last week along ?l the Marayuvka river In Galicia, has $ 'resulted In an important victory for if the Austro-German forces over Rus-: Rus-: slans, according to Berlin. Here the : Russians now hold only a small part l of the front in the west bank of tho river after a general nttack by tho j Teutonic allies between Svitelniki and Skomovochy. Petrograd says, ,1 however, that the fighting is still go-v go-v lng on and that 'the positions have changed hands several times. Twice during Sunday In the morn-!' morn-!' lng and in the aftornon Germans j launched violent attacks against the I "positions newly won by the French In the Chaulnes ivood, south of the Somme. Both attacks were repulsed, according to Paris. Some of tho at-tnckers at-tnckers in the morning offensivo gained a foothold In the French first line but were surrounded and the 150 survivors mnde prisoner. Berlin, in admitting that In Saturday's Satur-day's fighting the British north of the Somme made gains, characterizes character-izes the nritish losses as a "reckless sacrifice of human lives." Several trenches between Blanches and La Maisonette, south of the Somme. were recopturcd Saturday from the French, says Berlin. On the Macedonian front slight pro-gvess pro-gvess lias been made by the entento allies in the Cerna river region. German Ger-man troops now are aiding their Bulgarian Bul-garian allies In the fighting at the bend of the Cerna. Heavy rainstorms and snowfalls are impeding the operations in the Austro. Italian theater. |
