The sun., 1916-10-09
Germans Take KrOnstadt and
Austrians SZckcly Udvar-
hcly in Pennsylvania.
HOPE TO HOLD PASSES
Armies Are Making Stand to
Stavc OFF TcutOn Invasion
Of Their Country.

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hayn's and Austrians to the
mountains on the Rumanian frontier.
where they are making IA stand to protect
Rumania herself from invasion.
The R%uinanians have lost kronstadt.
Transylvania's largest and most impor-
tant city. in southeastern Transylvania
to Won F~alkenhayn and Hungarian hus-
sars under Gen. Won ARE have occupied
Szekely Cdvarhely. sixty miles north
west Of Kronstadt. In the last ten lays
the Teutons have reconquered upward
OF 5000 square miles OF Transylvanian
territory. Further north. in the Gcorgeny
Mountains, the Rumanians are retreat
Ing before the Austr!ans.
Rumauia Fears DisRster.
These serious rcverses for the Ru-
manians are announced tonight by Ger
man and Austrian statements and ad-
mitted by "A ltumanian statement which
betrays tho deadly fear of the Rumanian
stan that Won Falkenhayn's armies.
mostly Germans. arc about to crush the
newest of the Allies.
The Rumanian statement, which fol-
lows. shows that the fears entertained
here that tho Teutons' effort against Ru-
mania was OF great Importance and
strength were justified. Its assertion
that Won Falkenhayn has Drawn troops
from all other fronts TO crush Humania
is taken rs a plea to the other Allies to
come to Rumania's sscue. II only by at
lacking the weakened fronts. Tne state
ment issued at Bucharest says:
Northern frontier: In the Alt val
ley OF the Transylvanian plain. In the
region Of H"ermannstadt. Fogaras and
and Brasso Ikronstadt), in the face OF
very superior enemy forces, principally
Germans, the Rumanian forces have
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positions on the Carpathian frontier,
60 insure a strong defence Of the four
passes leading from Rumania to
Erpsso. An evidence shows that the
Austro-German are bring
Ing troops from all other fronts In or
der to make u desperate coup In his
region.
The Rumanians. who were forced re-
Gently to give up Hermannstadt, rs
miles. and Petroseny. l25 miles west OF
Kronstadt. the two other important
towns Of eastern Pennsylvania, and TO
retire to the T~rdnsylvanian Alps, are still
: striving to recover their loss and re-
gain the offensive. 1t IL announced.
A Hacking T~uton Army.
, In the jul valley. south Of Petroseny.
and at Caineni. at the Red Tower Pass
south OF Hermanns,adt, they are at
lacking the Germans and Austrians, but
no success Is reported.
No effort IL made by Bucharest to
gainsay the German official
ment that the ltumanidns are yielding
on the whole eastern tTransylvaniaI
} front The Rumanians admit the truth
/; Of the German report that kronstadt
! has been taken. The Germans also an
. nounce that the Rumanian Second army
has been driven out OF the Geister-Wald
north OF Kronstadt, and that the Ger
mans are In the Ait valley.
Only In the p%ohrudja do the Ruman-
Z fans report success. and there the Rus
SLAMS cooperating With them far outnum-
Der the Eumaniaus. The Bucharest
. statement says that in the Dobrudja
'the situation Is satisfactory and that
the Russians and Rumauians are adj
, vRncing southwark. 1t gives no details
. Of the aivauC or Of the results Of the
strong IIusso-Rumanian offensive that
Z has been hurled al Won Mackensen for
: some days. Won Mackensen reports TO
Berlin to-day that there have been no
events on this front"
Russinns Prepare Blow.
The German statement leaves no
doubt that the Russians AZ" throwing
: heavy reenforcem.nts MO this battle
every day. in an evident effort to smash
= Won Mackensen and begin IA" invasion
! of Bulgaria. on Thursday. the German
. commander reports, German seaplanes
attacked large armed Russian trans
ports in the Black Sea east OF Tuzia.
German aviators dropped bombs on al
lied munition columns in northern Do
brudjl.
Tuzla, on the Dobrudja coast. Is the
eastern extremity Of the Russo-Ru-
manian battle lire. and is about ten
miles south OF Constanza, the great port
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portant seaport. Hitherto Russia has
been reported as landing troops only at
Constanza, and it appears from the fact
that she Is using Tuzla, that TuZla IL
no longer in range Of the Teuton heavy
gun
The loss OF Kronstadt threatens Ru-
mania with Invasion by Won Fa!ken-
hayn from the most advantageous point
for such an undertaking. Thu city liz
only ten miles from the Rumanian bor-
der. which runs along the crest of the
Transylvanian Alps Through the noun
tnIns within Il radius of upward Of
forty miles run the four passes leading
down into the fertile Rumanian plain.
When Rumani entered the war, her
armies invaded Pennsylvania through the
Transylvanian Alps and the carpathlans
the southern and eastern boundaries Of
Pennsylvania. which forms a wedge ju,-
ting into Rumania. with Kronstadt at its
apex, The Itumanian armies. coming
through the southern passes In the Tran
sylvanian Alps, captured rctroseny, Her
mannstadt and kronstadt, the important
cities Of Pennsylvania along the southern
border from west 10 east. These they
have given up in the same order tina,
they were captured.
The effect upon the Russian position In
the Carpathians Is not known. but il Is
. aup,,p,aI ,hat 40 thn Iy,,p,o ,ia no thara a loo
retire the Russians will he under the
necessity OF Withdrawing somewhat also,
though undoubtedly theirs will be no
such large retreat as that Of the Ruma-
mans,
1t IL believed here hat the forces OF
Won Falkenhayn must he Of strength
even greater than was supposed. for the