The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-12
Falling Back To Buzou River,
prWhereiwings VIII Be Protect
ed BY Russians On North and
Danube River TO the South
SLAVS FIGHTING HoTLY
,,... IN HIGH cARPATHIANS
Reports oil. Struggle North Of Yer
dun Conflicting As Are Those
Of the Battle That Is Raging
In UpIands Of Macedonia
(AssOsla.od rress b. Federal wirelo.sl

d (AssOSasod Press by Federal wirslcs'>
NTEW YORK, December o
~ The main Rumanian army
and its Russian divisions are con-
,inuing to fall back in Eastern
Wallachia before the advancing
forces of Won Mackensen, appar-
emily making little resistance ex-
cept through minor rear guard
actions. .' Co.,.
To just what extent. the Aus
tro-Germans and Bu!gars have
advanced east and north of Buch-
Arrest is not apparent from the re-
ports received, but it seems to be
the object of the Rumanians to
reach the line of the Buzeu River
before the Teutons are able to
penetrate the Moldavian borders
and reach their rear and before
any German Turkish force is able
to cross the Danube around
Tchernavado and outflank them.
Reaching. the. Buzeur RIVER III
safety, the Rumahians will be able
to take up a strong defensive posi-
ion, with their left protected by
the wide marshes of the Upper
Danube and their right in touch
with the main Russian line through
Bukowina and down the Media
Wan side of the Carpathians. The
Buzeu River is sixty miles north.
east of Bucharest at its nearest
point. entering Rumania through
the Tomos Pass. near the TransN-
vanian city of Kronstadt/
Meanwhile, reporting everything
luiet in the Dobrodja section. NJ &C.
'tensen is employing a large portion
IF his force in rounding up the
various Rumanian attachments cut
If from the main army by the
Teuton sweep upon Bucharest,
taking prisoners in large numbers,
eighteen thousand men and twenty
Xix guns having been taken in all
n Southern Rrmama, between Blu
'harcst aud the Danube.
7us1rnian Loss Heavy
a forna Of eight thousand Ruman.
ans which had been cut off in Western
| VnllDchla. has been taken, surrender.
ing after being surrounded, while an.
other thGnsand. heatcn back into the
Preden aud AltchaHZ Passes, have sur.
| rendered
Battered as the Russians with the
Rumanian forces have been by the at.
tacks Of the Teutons they are still at
lacking desperately. aud are. managing
TO hold thei rown in places. Berlin ad
Inits that in the 'frOtus Valley the Slavs
are on the offensive, but declares that
n number of assaults in that region
have been checked or definitely repal
sed. 80
! In the Oitus Valley the boot is now
on the other foot, and the Germans
ere attacking fDriouslv in the hope of
Ihreakihg through thu Slav 6nrs, but in
This they have foiled, according to the
official statement issued last night by
the Russian general staff in Petrograd.
Fighting in Carpathians
In the Carpathians the Russians are
gathering hard at the Austrian and Ger,
! man lines. South of Jarovnik Pass they
rttacked heavily yesterday bnt they
gailed there also, declares Berlin.
On the West there is but comparative
W little activity. Most If this II in 'he
Vicinity Of Verdun, where there has
been more or less heavy fighting in the
neighborhood of Hill 304. Here both
sides claim success and the defeat Of
fheir ad versaFy, ''-7'''