The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-22
Summary
 OF THE War News

The tide of the great battle in the lithuanian province of Dobrudja has again turned, sthis time in favor of the {, central powers, according to Berlin to- day Field Marshal Won Mackensen has succeeded in breaking the Ruma- nian and Russian resistance, the Ger man war office reports, executing an encircling movement which compelled the entente forces to retreat in dis order. It was only last night that an official announcement from Bucharest 1eclared that the battle which had ipeen in progress for six days, had sended on Wednesday with the defeat sof the Germans. Bulsarians and Turks who were retiring southward, burning Villages as they went. As the German Victory turns out to be a decisive one, the situation promises to develop se- rtously for the Rumanians and Rus sians, who have been fighting to pro- tect the railway running from Con- stanza, on the Black Sea, to Tcherna- Avoda, on the Danube. The battle was fought not more than 20 miles south ,of the railroad at Stake, and its loss would mean the, cutting of the con- svanient water route of communica ton between Russia and Rumania by way
 
 l1he Tchernavoda, in addition, lies the lToute to interior Rumania over the only bridge spannig the Danube along the ezftire Dobrudja front 3H The British ara again striking hard Un tho Somme front Their latest
 thrust, delivered last night, netted Them two lines of. German trenches or = line about mile log between Flers and Martinpuichs London announces to-day. It is at this point that the British have pushed farthest towards BapaunA which is but little more than three miles from Flers- Last nighf's advance straightens out the Sormer bend in the line from Martin plzich to F1ers, w7ich now runs almos. directly east and west
 1tThe French for their part of the 6omme fighting, have had another sei xfes of German attacks to cope with. < Strong forces advanced in waves this H1ornfag akainstS positions recently captured by the French between Ran court and Pdez Farm. According to Par1s, tho Germans did not even reach &Ae French lines being forced back ko their trenches with heavy losses by l33e fre of the French guns. s {. is On the Macedonian front, in the re- kion north of F1orina, the entente drfve towards >MonastirN apparently is Developing strehgth- The Serbians are rcported to be continuing their ad- vance aloAg the Broda, reactjng a point near eUrbani Wrbeni) eight mile northeast of F'lorina, on the railroad to Monastfr. Immediately to the north rof Florina the Bulgarians are making asstand but, according to Paris, failed in an attack on French troops in this region
 TO the west the entente forces are moving forward on the heights to- wards Pup11l ten miles from fFlorina, e4tnlery firing causing intense dam age, reported from the British front 1n the Doiran region On the extreme end of the line British warships near the mouth of the Struma have been SheIling Bulgarian positions in the vi- Ginity of Neohor1 1F%s I Tho Bulgarian official statement of yesterday. received today, mentions ! 'only briefly the fighting in Dobrudja, 1 where Field Marshal Won Mackensen. according to announcement from Bu- th4rest, has been defeated in his ef- fort to break the Runnanian and Rus sian lines sAuth of the Constanza- 1 IchernavodA railway. The Sofia re- port only brings the action up to We'd X nesday. when the fighting was said to ' have died down measureably.
 The BuFgarians, according to their | bulletin. are busy consolidating their positions The Rumanian announce ment declared the armies of the cen tral powers were retiring, buring VII. | hges in their retreat. |