Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-05
Armies Have Joined and
Now Extend from Danube
to Mountains on North.
HOLD ALL EXCEPT
ONE RAILWAY LINE
Violent Fighting in Progress. Bulgars
RepuIsing Heavy Russian Attacks.
British SapperS, Near YpreS, Pave
Way for Raid on Germans.
ASSOCIATED Press Summary

The armies of the Teatonic allies,
! fighting in Southwestern Rumania,
with Bucharest their main objective,
have joined hands, and now extend
from the Danube on the south to the
mountains on the northwest of
Bucharest.
Coming through the mountains.
they have taken the town of Tergo
vishtea. Berlin announces that the
battle of the Arjesh river has come
to a final conclusion, with the leu
tonic allies the victors, and that all
along the front they are drawing
closer their net toward Bucharest.
With the capture of Tergovishtea
and further south the driving of the
Rumanians from the region of Titu.
the forces of the central powers now
hold intact all the railway lines run
ming into Bucharest from the west.
The Predeal pass line, running north
from the capital into Pennsylvania,
now is the sole remaining railway
connection partly in Rumanian hands,
and with the Teutons now nearly as
t1de this line of Preza, and rapidly
be taken from them.
To the south and southwest Of
bucharest, Won Mackensen has crossed
the Danube and his armies have in
flicted heavy damage, and have cap
tured Gradishtea, twelve miles from
the capital. In this fighting, accord
ing to Berlin, the Rumanians suffered
sanguinary casualties, and on Sunday
lost more than 5000 men and officers
and So cannon. Near THU. Is locomo-
tives and much rolling stock fell into
the hands of the Teutonic allies.
Bulgars Repulse Russians.
In Dobrudja and in the northwest,
along the Bukowina and TRANSPLANT
ian fronts, violent fighting is in pro-
gress. According to Sofia, in the
former region the Bulgarians repulsed
heavy Russian attacks. Berlin admits
slight progress in the northwest by
the Russians, north and south of
Totus.
In the Carpathians, south of Jablo-
nitza, the Russians captured another
height.
Aside from the Macedonian theatre,
little fighting of moment has taken
place. Berlin admits the relinqu1sh-
rlent of positions east of the Cerna
river, while the Serbian war office as
serts the Serbs have captured a series
of powerfully fortified Bulgarian posi-
tions, north of Grunishte and Budi-
mirtsa, and have taken in addition
guns, machine guns, ammunition and
prisoners.
British sappers near Ypres and
Wythchaete, Belgium, by mine exca-
vations, paved the way for raid on
German trenches. Some of The Brit.
ish succeeded in entering advance
trenches, but were driven out later.
A British attack near LIE Sars also
failed.
Concerted artillery action continues
at various points along the French
front, especially in the Somme REGION
and on the Verdun sector.
Artillery duels and small maneu-
vers have featured the fighting on the
Austro-Italian front.
Russian attacks on the German line
near a lake south of Dvinsk, failed
with heavy losses to the Russians, ac-
cording to Berlin.
The British minister Of war trade,
in an announcement, says the entente
allies will take steps to obtain a solu-
ton of the Greek difficulty, in which
King Constantine and his government
complain that Great Britain has pro-
hibited the sailing of Greek steamers
from British ports.