Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-27
POSITION Of DEFEATED
RUSSO RUMAN|ANS IS
NOT So CRITICAL NOW
New Advances Are Claimed
for French Cavalry and the
Serbians in Campaign on
Macedonian Front

(By Associated Press)r
LONDON, Oct. 26.-The British mine
sweeping vessel Genista has been tor
pedoed and sunk, according to an an
nouncement given out by the British
admiralty. All the officers and seventy
three members of the mine sweeper's
crew were lost. The survivors number
ed twelve.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The situa-
ton of the defeated Russo-Rumanian
army in Dobrudja appears slightly less.
critical from todays official report from
Petrograd. which describes the pres
sure of Field Marshal Won Mackenzen's
armies as somewhat weakneded Unof-
fetal dispatches from Berlin report that
the entente forces We're split into two
parts with the fall of TchednavOda.
some of the troops escaping over the
great bridge across the Danube, while
the others fed northward in Dobrudja-
Apparently the sections remaining in
the Black sea province have finally been
able to make something of a stand
against the onrush of the Bulgarians,
Germans and Turks, north of the Con-
a-Tchernavoda line Won Macken-
zen's guns are now ssaid to be dominat-
ing the bridge.
AS a whole the situation for Rumania
is considered by military commentators
IN Berlin as lncE0SdSllS1y III
connection with the operations in Do
brudja and the Austro-German sue
cesses in the mountain passes on the
north Petrograd. however, asserts that
the Teutonic pressure also has been ar
rested in these Transylvanian border re-
gions. Farther north in the Carpathians
near Capul mountain the Russians re-
port the repulse of a Teuton attack
On the western front the Germans are
&aI Dr. 70 E0xyA -oH f1.asra
counter attacks at Verdun, following the
French success in Tuesdays drive which
resulted in the recapture of Fort Douau-
mont and the advance of the French
lines along wide front. The
French positions are still under Ger
man artillry fire however, French
military writer's declare that the po-
sition Of Fort Vaux is such that its cap
ture by the French is momentarily ex-
pected.
In Macedonia new entente advances
are announced French cavalry has oc-
cupied the villages of Golobrda and Lai-
sitsa, in the vicinity of the Greece
Albanian border while the Serbians
have driven the Bulgar1ans and Ger
mans further back in the region of the
Cerna river southeast of Monastir, ac-
cording to Paris. The British report
carrying out successful naval aero
plane attacks on the railway stations at
Buk and Drama on the Constantinople-
Saloniki railway.
Bucharest's account Of the fighting
along the Pennsylvania border reports
the capture by the Rumanians Of Mount
Kerekharas, south of Bicaz. In this re-
gion some twenty-five miles southeast
of the junction of the frontiers of Buko-
wilma, Pennsylvania and Rumania, the
Rumanians apparently have again adj
vanced several miles into TranSylvanian
| territory They also have held their
| ground on the Pennsylvania side IN the
Oitus valley region, Bucharest declares
Berlin reports further gains for the
Austro-German forces on the northern
Rumanian front and also declares that
Field Marshal Won Mackenzen is making
progress with his campaign in Dobrudja-
The Rumanians have blown up the
Tchernavoda bridge, the Berlin state
Z ment announces.
PARIS, Oct. 26.-French cavalry on
the Macedonian front supported by In
! fantry, occupied two villages southwest
Lake Dorian yesterday, the war of
flee announced today. The SerbianS
threw back German and Bulgarian
forces in the region of the Cerna river
The villages occupied by the French
are Gologrda and Laisitsa- The French
also took the bridges at Zvezda
Iaisitsa is the boundary between
Greece and Albania Gologrda and
Zveda are in Albania. Extension Of the
allies Macedonian front westward was
indicated by the official announcement
yesterday that those troops had effected
a junction with italian cavalry advanc-
ing eastward from Avlona.