Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
SITUATION IN
RUMANIA GROWS
MORE CRITICAL
Peril Imminent in Southwest
Where Teutonic Enveloping
Move Nears Bucharest
FLEEING FROM CAPITAL
Government Reported Leaving
For Jassy; Retreat Is
Percipitated
FLEEING FROM CAPITAL

The situation of the Rumanian
armies defending Bucharest appears
increasingly critical.
Only to the northwest of the capital
do the Rumanian lines seem to be
holding at all firmly and even here
the capture of Curtea de Argos, on
the Argenchu river, although that
point is so miles distant from Buchar-
est, seems to indicate a weakening of
the Rumanian resistance in this di-
rection. On the southwest the peril
is imminent with the enveloping
movement of the central powers plac-
ing ther forces within 40 miles of the
capital. News dispatches have re-
ported the Rumanian government
and diplomatic officials leaving Bu-
charest for Jassy. 200 miles north
east Of the capital near the Russian
frontier.
The rapid progress made by Cen
eral Won Falkenhayn's armies NOV
ing east in Rumania of course has
been largely made possible by the
operation of the Danube forces under
Field Marshal Won Mackensen. Flank
ed out of the Alt valley position by
the crossing of the river at Zimnitza,
running diagonally northwest from
the Danube, likewise is imperilled by
the Teutonic occupation of Giurgiu,
an advance from which would quick
ly compel a Rumanian retreat.
1t still remains to be developed
whether the process of thanking the
Rumanians out of their positions is to
be continued by other crossings of the
Danube still further east. The south
ern bank of the river is held by the
troops of the central powers to q
point beyond Tchernavoda.
Retreat Toward Capital
That the retreat of the Rumanians
toward the nearer defenses of Buch-
Arrest is already under way and is q
precipitate one, is indicated by to-
days German official statement
which announces a disorderly retire
ment of the Rumanian forces along
the entire Wallachian front before
General Won Falkenhayn's steady
advance. Won Mackensen's Danube
armies are marching forward in a
corresponding advance.
Russ on Offensive
Possibly as diversion in aid of the
Rumanian. the Russians have taken
the offensive near Kiribaba, on the
Golden BiStritza in the Carpathians
northwest of the Rumanian frontier.
Attacks here, Petrograd reports, net
ted them the ridges of heights east
and south of Kirlibaba and the cap
ture of more than 700 prisoners. Ber-
lin declares the Russian attacks, de-
livered at many points along the Car
pathian and western Moldavian front
resulted only in local successes which
were paid for dearly
With the exception of the Ruman-
ian front none is more active at pres
ent than the Macedonian. Whatever
may have been the result of the rel
cent heavy fighting there, regarding
which German and entente accounts
disagree, the allied armies do not an
pear TO have slackened the force of
their offensive in the Monastir region,
Serbs Take Heights
Parls to-day announced an import-
ant advance by the Serbians in which
TWO heights were captured. notably
one northwest of Grunishte, east of
the Cerna river where an effort is
evidently being made to bring the line
up to level with that within the
pend OF the stream, towards Monastir
meanwhile an advance by the Italians
is reported in the region west of Mon
astlr where a violent battle is rag
ing IN which progress also has been
made by the French.