Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-11
R0uMANIAN b.
CITY FALLS
Germans and Bulgars Cap
ture Silistria, on River
Danube "a
TAKE $1,000 CAPTIVE
Austrians Drive Back Roumanians IN
Pennsylvania and Are in Turn Re
pulsed. y j..

Paris. Sept. II British troops have
taken the offensive in the Balkans, 1t
was officially announced here today
The British crossed the Struma
river at Orliax and attacked the Bull
rarian at Nivolgen and Karad Juquell.
Heavy fighting is going on.
Berlin, Sept. 11-More than third
of the territory taken from Bulgaria
bv the Roumanians at the close OF
the second Balkan war has already
been reconquered by the German-Bul-
garian forces.
London, Sept. 1.-THE 5"iear'
ians are evacuating Varna. the l'f'n-
cir ,.l port of the Black Sea, accorG-
ing to semiofficlal news agency ais
match from Odessa,
Berlin, Sept. 11--Official annou:c1-
r,ent was made today that the Ger
nan and Bulgarin forces tina are
invading Eastern Roumania have
cartured the Rouma manian fortress q
S;listria, On the Danube, 90 miles
southeast of Bucharest.
Silistria is one Of the line OF Rou-
marian fortresses on the sodthenl
cank of the Danube. 1t is % miles
northeast Of Turtukai, capture OF
which by the invaders was announced
last week. 1t has figured as 2? m
per1ant fortress in earlier wars. Ihas
town has about $4,000 inhabitants.
South of Dorna- -Watra, in South
crn Bukowina. near the Roumanian
and Hungarian borders, the Germans
have come in contact with Rouman-
ian forces, the War Office annognc-
ed today. The Russians gaihcd
ground west Of shypot, in the Car
pathians near Babe.
The official Bulgarian report of
September I, which announces the
capture of the Roumanian fortress
Of Turtukai after three days of vio-
lent fighting, gives the following.
additional information:
I've captured the Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-tifth, Thirty-sixth, Fortieth,
Seventy-fourth, Seventy-ninth, Eigh-
tieth and Eighty-fourth Infantry
Regiments. and two battalions Of "a
regiment of gendarmes. We also
captured all the artillery of the fort
ress and plentiful supplies Of am
munition. rifles. machine guns. etc.
"The number of prisoners and the
amount of booty taken has not pe,t
been ascertained. Up to the. pres
ent time we have counted 400 Off
GERS, among whom there are 3 bri-
gadier-generals 21,000 unwounded
soldiers. two flags and more than
100 modern cannon, among which
were two batteries stolen in 1912
during the second Balkan War in
1918, Roumanian compelled BuIgar-
ia to cede Dobrudja, in which Tuf-
tukai is situated).
"The Roumanian losses in dead or
wounded were enormous. Many Rus
sian soldiers were drowned in the
Danube during the fight in panic"
Vienna, Sept. l1.-After a battle
along the road between Petreseny
and Hatzeg, in lower Pennsylvania,
the invading Roumanian forces " /:
driven back two and half mile &c
War Office announces. The RI Il
ians then launched a new : u strong
attack against the southern wing OF
the Austrian forces which was COM
PEELED to retire.
London, Sept. II. Reuters dis
patch from Petrograd says:
Russian cavalry has occupied sew
eral points on the Bulgar-Rouman-
ian frontier.
According to evidence received bS
the Russian commission of inquiry
into Germany's method Of warfarea
columns of Russian prisoners in Ger
man uniform were marched to the
rear on the Franco-German front
I, with the purpose of deceiving French
air scouts, who, taking them for Ger.
man reserves, frequently dropped
bombs on them"
; Sofia. Sept. 11.-An official CONS
m1nicatinn issued today SAYS: