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BULGARIANS FALL
BACK IN DOBRUDIA
invaders Burn Rumanian Viii
lagos as They Retreat, Says
Bucharest Report.
ITALIANS TAKE TEUTON GUNS
Battery of Three Howitzers and :
Large Quantity of Ammunition
Also Captured on carso.

Bucharest, Nov. 10.-The Bulgarian
forces are retreating along their whole
front in the province of Dobrudja, &C
cording to a semi-officiaI stattment is
sued here today. As the BuIgarians
withdraw, the statement says, they are
Systematically burning the Rumanian
villages.
The war office today announced that
Rumanian troops had reoccupied the
towns of Hirsova and Dobrudja on the
Danube, forty-five miles north OF
Tchernavoda
Continuing their offensive in Do
brudja, Russian troops have driven
back advanced detachments of Field
Marshal Won Mackensen's forces and
progressed southwark, the war office
announced today.
italians Take Guns.
London, Nov. 10.-Italian forces in
their offensive against the Austro-
Hungarian positions on the Carso
front have captured twenty guns, in
Guiding thirteen of medium caliber, ac-
cording to the Italian official state
ment today. The text adds:
"On the Carso another battery OF
three howitzers, six-inch, with much
ammunition, which had been aban-
doned by the enemy, was found on
Monte eckinka''
Austrian Towns Bombed.
Berlin, Nov. 1O.-The towns of Ro-
vigno, Parenzo, Cittanuova and Umaga
in Istria below Triest were attacked
on Tuesday by entente aeroplanes,
the Austro-Hungarian admiralty an
nounces. One of the airplanes was
shot down Vermegliano and Monfal-
cone on the lower Isonzo front were
raided by Austrian aircraft.
Petrograd, Nov. SIN the region
east of Kirlibaba on the Pennsylvania
front, says the Russian statement
from general headquarters, a Russian
attack resulted in the dismounting OF
two enemy guns and the capture of
trenches with over a hundred prison
ers and two machine guns.
South of Dorna Watra," says the
statement, I'VE continue our success
full operations in the valleys of the
Dorsek and Poutna rivers. We cap
tured here within two days seven ma
chine guns, fifteen officers and 500
men.
"On the Caucasus front we repulsed
the Turks and occupied the village of
Aymur, southeast of Kalku. We have
arrested the Turkish offensive in the
direction of Bedjar''
Rumanians HaItTeutons.
London, Nov. AFTER a week or
more of doubt concerning operations
in the Dobrudja region of Rumania,
where the Teutonic allies had been
marching almost unimpeded north
ward from the Black Sea to the Dan
ube, comes the report that the Ru-
manians have taken the offensive,
probably aided by the Russians, and
compelled the enemy to retreat at sew
eral points.
On the Transylvanian front, how
ever, the Rumanians in the jul Val
ley, who for some time had been hold
ing the upper hand over the Austro-
Germans, forcing them to give ground,
have now been stopped, the Teutons
having brought up reinforcements. In
the Predea1 pass region, after heavy
fighting, the Rumanians have met
with reverse, being compelled to re-
treat after long ana STUBBORN DaILl6S.
All along the battle line in France,
between the Somme and Ancre rivers,
the Germans are tenaciously disputing
attempts by the British and French
to gain further ground. Berlin says
that in Sundays fighting over front
of twelve miles the French and Brit
ish suffered heavy casualties and won
nothing except a local gain in the St
Pierre-Vaast wood. London admits
that the British were compelled to
give back to the Germans ground the
British had previously won at the
Butte de Warlencourt. In the St
Pierre-Vaast wood, however, the
French, Monday, made a further ad-
vance in the northern part of the wood
and captured additional prisoners, 600
of whom were taken in the fighting of
Sunday and Monday.
Rome reports that the Austrians are
bringing up heavy reinforcements on
the battle 'front.' 18th of Triest. Here
the Austrians app, emily have taken
| the offensive, but nowhere have they
been able to regain any Of their lost
positions, according to Rome