The Washington herald., 1916-12-02
RUSSIA BATTLES
over ESQ MILES
To SAVE ALLIES
Countless Legions Are Rushed
at Teutons in Effort to Re-
eveBucharest Defenders.
GREATEST DRIVE OF WAR
Petrograd Claim, Substantial Gains
Already Made on Csrpsthian
Fighting Line.

CBy the Internatienal Nsws seyv1ss5
Amsterdam, Dec L-RussiAn troops
have arrived at Bucharest 10 sssast ths
Rumanisns in defense Of their CAPITAL
according TO dispatches from Cologne.
where the report is printed In the Ca
zette.
Interest in the RUmanian campaIgn Iasf
night centered upon a gigantic last-mIn-
ute attempt by Russia to save her Balkan
ally from being ''swaIIowed up In the
vortex OF the multiple Teuton whirlwfnd
advance. Along battle front Of nearly
go miles from the much-fought-for Tartar
Pass down 10 the northeastern tip Of the
Transylvanian Alps. countless Ieg1ons Of
Muscovites are being hurled into unceas-
Ing onslaughts. The object Is to smash q
wide gap in the Teuton Carpathian front,
rush southwestward through the passes
to Maramaros-Sziget, important Hun
garian railway city. thence to overrun the
Hungarian plain
The success OF this plan. titanic IN out
line but difficult OF execution at this time
Of the year, would compel the Teutona
according to Russo-RumaniAn calculation
to turn back post-hsste from Western
Rumania TO save the entire eastern front
from being nanked.
In this new huge offensive, which has
been raging without pause for forty-eight
hours and is heightened to ever greater
fury as the hours roll by bringing fresh
Russian re-enforcementS the Russian
war ONCE claims gains while both Berlin
and Vienna assert that the minor local
advances" scored by the Cars forces are
in no proportion TO the terrific losses IN
blood inflicted by the Teuton defense.
Greatest Effort OF War.
The Austrian war once speaks OF great
masses Of men" being used by the Rus
SLAMS In their attacks for the relief OF
the much-hRrrassed Rumantans" A wire
less dispatch to Berlin late last night
repoTsed endless Husoovite reinfOrcements
arriving on the Carpathian front There
seems no room for doubt that this
eleventh hour attempt TO save Rumania
Is the most tremendous offensive attempt
ed In this war and that its full momeu-
tum has not yet been reached.
Meanwhile. as II discounting this pow
erful onslaught and fits bearing on the
campaign in Rumania, the armies Of
General Won FslkenhAyn and Field Mar
shall Won Mackensen are steadily smash
west the latter from the south toward
Bucharest
Mackensen's Danube army, according TO
yesterdays afternoon Berlin report. has
forced its way across the Niaslow low
lands and is approaching the course u
the ArGeshu (Arges) in the direction of
Bucharest"
The Niaslov River flows thirteen and q
half miles south OF the capital Bucha-
rest itself admitted yesterday evening Of
hcially that violent engagements" have
taken place on the Niaslov to Comana. II
does not yet admit the loss Of that town
Sixteen miles south OF Bucharest on
cially reported by Berlin yesterday, to
have been captured.
May BE Attacking Now.
The Arges River which the German war
office says Mackensen is approaching
is seven miles from Bucharest and only
two and a half miles southwest Of the
capitals outer fortihcations. This gives
rise to the conclusion that the lombard
ment Of Bucharest will be well under
way when this is read.
Fhe Inflated Rumanian-Orsova army,
which last week was taken between two
Teuton aEmies and of which nothing
definite has been heard since was
mentioned again in yesterdays Berlin
report. Cut OF from their army" says
the statement. the Rumanian troops ere
trying to escape their inevitable fate by
following a variable course" Three hun
dred prisoners were taken by them from
those of King Ferdinand's forces which
were driven from the Csmpulung and
Pitesci positions. In the northwestern
part of the kingdom. they are valiantly
battling TO make good their retreat. Rear
guards, hurriedly entrenched behind the
various rivers that form natural
obstacles to Falkenhayn's advance are
again and again taking the offensive.
only to be crushed by the Teuton tidal
wave. Rich booty is falling 70 the IN
vaders as they sweep southeastward. The
heroic defense rendered by the crumbl-
| ing RUmanian forces is resuming In what