Evening star., 1916-10-15
RUMAN|ANS REGAIN
GROUND FROM FOE
Battle Desperately in TransyI-
vania to Prevent Teutonic
Invasion.
RUSSIANS ARE RUSHING AID

LONDON. october 14-Standing on
their own frontier. the Rumanian
troops who recently invaded Transyl-
vania from the south and east are
lighting desperately to prevent the
forces of the central powers from en-
terinS Rumania. Russian reinforce
the Rulnanians, a wireless report from
Bucharest says, and it is announced
that King Ferdinand will take the field
at the head of his harassed troops.
Fighting on the frontier northeast
of kronstadt, the Rumanians have re-
captured a Rumanian village, Polfjan-
Sarata, southeast of Orna. from the
Austro-Germans. Bucharest also re-
ports the capture of Mont Siguiello and
the frontier town Muncelunare, in the
region of Petroscny. with severe losses
to the Teutonic forces The wireless
dispatch from Bucharest also an
off1cers is on the way to the Rumanian
capital to the aid OF the hard-pressed
generals Of King Ferdinand
More than $4,000 prisoners, Bucharest
says, have been taken by the Rurna-
mans on the various fronts up to the
present time
In eastern Pennsylvania and on the
southern border the Austro-German
FORCES continue to make progress
against the invaders. East of Csilr
Szereda the advance had not yet halted,
ana west of the Vulcan pass Rumanian
attacks have been checked, Berlin re-
ports.
Rumanian Official Report.
Following is the text of the Ru-
manian statement:
Between the heights on the right
and left of the Alt river there has been
lively artillery bcmbardment, On
Mount Chitzianet our artillery fire dis
persed an enemy convoy. In the jul re-
gion we have taken by assault Mount
Siguiello CMount Sigleu) and MunceIu
and withdrew in disorder. We took
prisoners and captured one machine
gun.
On the orsova front there were ar
tillery dueIs
Southern front-There was can
nonade and an exchange of infantry Are
ali along the Danube. At several places
we sank vessels with Bulgarian troops
on ooard. and which were approaching
our bank In Dobrudja we easily re-,
pulsed an enemy attack on our left
wing.
The total number of prisoners which
we nave taken up to the present on all
fronts and who have been jnternad is 1Os
officers and 14,s11 men,"
Germans Claim Gains.
The official German statement on onera-
tions against the Humanians in Transyl-
vania and the Russians and Rumanians
in Dobrudja says:
IN Pennsylvania our pursuit Of the
enemy on the east front is making good
progress. The enemy yielded also on the
road from Csik Szereda to Gyrnes pass.
On the frontier passes of Budzenland the
allied tTeutonic) troops gained ground.
The Rumanians lost here 292 men, in
cluding eight officers. and six machine
guns. West Of Vulcan pass hostile at
tacks were repulsed by counter attacks.
AT one place the enemy gained a foot
ing on a line Of the ridge"
The Teutonic advance in Pennsylvania
is continuing and the Rumanians have
been driven from the upper Alt ard Maros
valleys into the frontier mountains saws
today's Austrian war office statement.
Progress is also being made against the
Ru,nanian forces in the kronstadt region,
it is claimed.
Serb Attacks Fail, Is Claim.
BERLIN. October IA, by wireless tn Saw
vile, y. Yin bend of the Cerna
river there were renewed Serbian attacks"
says the German official statement on
operations in Macedonia. issued today
which also continued during the night
All. however, failed. Otherwise the situ-
alton is unchanged"
The official statement issued by the
Bulgarian war office in Sofia, under date
of October 49, follows:
Stru!na front-In the vicinity of the
village Of yenikeui cur artillery fire put
to rout three aTTnored automobiles. On
October Il, after combat near Barakii-
Jurna. We buried more than 200 enemy
dead and made prisoner one officer and
twenty British soldiers. Near the village
of Enidye a hostile machine was shot
down in an air battle and the pilot can