Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-05
Teutons Crush Slav As
saults on Carpathian
Front
s2.5OO RUMANIANS
TAKEN PRISONERS
Austro Germans Advance
Northwest of Capital.
Cars Forces Beaten
on Arjeshu
BERLIN. Dec. g.


,,-hu. tho great enclrcIlng movement Of
a. GERMAN Allies continues around Bucha-
-, the Austro-German positions IN the
farpnthians were again pounded by new
Y5nssinn attacks yesterday and last night,
the war ONCE reported today IN state-
rnent on Rumanian operations
rhese fresh Russian assaults were re-
.,iss1 IL was stated. The Austro-Ger-
mans delivered counter-attacks, recapturing
,nnortant positions that had previously been
lost.
Northwest OF Bucharest the Austro-Ger-
mans have pressed forward, crossing the
Istoharest- acknowledgements railway to-
ward the east.
Along lower Arjeshu River. south OF
pucbarest the Russians have been driven
back despite the fact they outnumbered the
army of German Allies opposing them.
The number Of prisoners reported in yes
terdays report on Rumanlan lighting has
been Increased to 1880.
There have been no incidents of import
auce In Dobrudja.
Attempts by the Russians In Galicia to
recaptura a trench section south of the
Tarnopol- Krasne railway was repulsed, the
War Office stated
FOUR ARMIES ADVANCE
with Field Marshal Won Mackensen. the
battering ram of the German army, in SUI
preme command, four great armies of the
Teutonic allies In Rumania are not only
closing in on Bucharest. but are driving for
ward to get into the rear OF the Russo-Ru-
manan forces that have been on the offen-
sive In the eastern part of the Transylvania
Alps
south OF Bucharest the German allies are
only seven miles from the forts defending
the capital
II is again reported, though not officially
that the Germans are shelling the works
II Won Mackensen has been able to trans
port the mighty forty-two-centimetcr how
itzers across the Danube and set them
within range OF the forts the resistance
must soon crumble These were the guns
that blasted the supposedly impregnable
forts Of Lege, Namur, Maubeuge. Antwerp
and Novo Georgievsk to pieces.
on December l. and approximately
10000 prisoners were captured by the Ger
man allies.
The booty captured by the German
Allies In Rumania has increased the
strength OF the Central Powers to such an
extent that the blockade OF the Allies is
now completely frustrated. says the mill
tary expert OF the Overseas News Agency
today In discussing the Rumanian situa-
tion
The article in part says:
while on both sides OF the Arieshu
River and at the threshold OF Bucharest
a decisive battle RACES. the violent engage
ment in the \ Carpathians and on the
Transylvanian frontier continues, BY
these attacks Russia hopes to succor Ru-
mania. On line more than 1870 miles
long. from the Ludov sector across the
much-dlsputed districts of Kirlbaba, Dorna
Vatra and Toelgyes, as far as the re-
zion east of kezhrvasrhely on the Mol
daylan frontier the Russians for the last
few days have been launching assault after
assault"
The writer says that the Russian at
tacks have been frutless at almost every
point. the losses of the attackers being
enormous. The troops were sent forward In
masses without heed to the artillery and
maehine-gun fire of the Austro-German de-
tenders.
This strong Russian pressure has not
had the slightest influence on the military
situation in Wallachla," the article con-
tinues. THE operations there have taken
the course planned for them. The whole
western part is firmly in our hands. The
large area of wheat lands and the rich
stocks OF cattle and other provisions as
well as the great resources of the soil
Smlnerals) increase the strength of the
Central Powers to sucn an extent that the
blockade of the Entente, which In itself
mad no real chance to succeed, is now COM
PETROGRAD, Dec 8.
Austro-German troops are advancing
upon Ploesci thirty miles north OF Bucha-
rest, the War Office In an official statement
hdmitted today. The statement stated also
that the Rumsnians have been unsuccess-
fnl In their Efforts to check the drive OF
the Teuton forces against the Bucharest
Poescl railway
Heavy artillery FIRE, destroying Russian
trenches in the heights south of Yoro,
neshka. forced retirement of Russian forces
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