The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-28
Germans and Austrians Reported
To Be conyerging On Buchar-
est From Three Directions De-
spite Desperate Resistance
REPORTS DANUBE CROSSED
ARE DENIED BY PETRoGRAD
Serbians and Their Allies In Ma
cedonia Are Declared To Be
Continuing Making Their Steady
Gains In Vicinity Of Monastir
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wireless,

v
u ARTS, November 2J-FIatly con.
Trajectory reports make it cx-
tremely difficult to gain any
lear idea 81 what is being done on
he different war fronts.
II appears certain however, that tho
troops under the, command of Won
Salkenhayn, operating in Transylvania
md Rumania are still advancing in
tPite of the desperate efforts of the
Rumanians TO head them back, and the
arrival of Russian reinforceIncnts in
that sector.
Won Falkenhayn 5 armies are report
ID to be cOnverging upon Bucharest,
inpitol of Rumania from three direc.
tiOns, and Won Mackensen is said to
have crossed successfully the Danube
river near Silistria from his lines in
the Dobrudja district.
Denying River Is Crossed
This last statement is disputed by
The reports from Petrograd, which as
,Iert that the generals effort to span
the river which is still the greatest
Iatural defense of Rumania on the
outh, and east have been broken
down
Other dispatches to the Wireless
Press in Rome declared last night that
Ill of the bridges over the river have
Deen broken down and that the stream
now impossible, These accounts add
hat the overflow of the river is threat
ming the population of DObrudja, al
eady impoverished by the wave of
var that has swept over them since
Rumania entered the conflict, and that
hundreds If thousands are facing
.tarvation. Petrograd declares an at
,empt at crossing near Zimmitza, failed
Indcr gun fire. Zimmitza is seventy
miles from Bucharest.
Germans Reach Alt River
Won Falkenhayn is said to have
reached the Alt river, driving the Rus
slams and Rumanians defending the
positions on that stream before him as
he advanced.
OF thus fighting the Berlin dispatches
report that "Austro- German forces in
Pennsylvania have captured several
new positions. Along the Danube sec
tor they have taken OrsOva and Turnu
SEVERN. The resistance of the Ruma-
mans on the west has been completely
broken down.
Ur the Dobrndja district situation
'ctroGrhd says "thC Russians have be.
un an advance in the DObrudia sec.
ION, Though the section invaded by
General Won Mackcnsen. The Slavs,
in forced by large dctachments, have
reached Lake Tashaul crossing the
Kartal River"
RunIaniaus Attacking
Bucharest in the official report on
ne H,tempt Of the Tcutons to cross
ne Danube declares that "tbc leu
ons have attempted to cross the
Danube scvCnty-five miles southwest of
Glugin. They were unsuccessful here.
an the Dobrudja district the Ru-
uanians have assumed the offensive
nd advanced along the entire front,
capturing several towns north of the
| Tcherna oda -COgstaHha railroad. The
Russians are now but twelve miles
aorth of the railway"
East of Monastir, the Scrbiuns have
successfully. stormed and occupied
s,apesh, and the allied accounts of the
=, fighting in Macedonia declare that
he Germans and Bulgarians have
been defeated and routed north of
5ehOdul.
Consta ntinople announces in an of
ieial statement that the Turks have
| lrivpu back the Russians in Armenia,
nd "have advanced twenty miles,
| The situation on the Sommr and An
,re is practically the same, with but
little activity save by the artillery Of
both armies.
On the, Italian front the italians have
made additional gains and have reached
Nijipole.