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Show BRIO PROVES A GREAT CAPTURE Will Be an Important Strategic Point for the German Forces. Berlin, Jan 7. wireless to Sayville, j N V The battle f pr possession of the i k southern bank of tlie lower Sereth ' river, in central Rumania along a 30-1 mile front, has been decided in favor: of the central powers alter fierce fighting, writes the military critic of the Overseas News agency, who points o;;t that the Teuton troops took just one month in forcing their way from Bucharest to Braila. a distance of 125 miles The military critic adds. "The Russians were defeated and lost their fortified positions after weeks of preparation on the southern bank of the Sereth from where, according ac-cording to repeated announcements j In the entente press, a counter-of-1 fehsive was to have been launched. On a front of ten miles, except for some villages south of F jndeni, the troops of the central powers reached the swampy districts and river bed of: the lower Sereth. The booty has not yet been counted, as battles are still going on. "Thanks to the special combined operations of the Danube and Do-1 brudja armies which exercised a i double pressure from the west and i east against Braila, Rumania's most important commercial town. It was , I conqii, red a'ter tenacious house-to-; house fighting. ' The Danube town of Braila. with its 65 000 inhabitants and important mid efficient locks, deposits and ele-1 v. iters, offers an extraordinarily im- portant strategical point for the cen-1 tral powers. The Danube s ship? may now go into the heart, of Ger-many Ger-many as far as Braila. On the other hand, navigation by the Russians and Rumanians on the Danube has been completely stopped |