The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-06

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IN ARIS, October Conflicting 70,
ports of the battle known to be
going ON IN Bulgaria, between
the B0lgars, their German allies, and
the Rumanians, left the real situation
i'm that part Of the war front in doubt
last night.
That tie Bai9ars have suffered scye,
rely and that they are menaced with
disaster on AZ lehst two fronts was
generally admitted In various official
and semi Dficikl dispatches from Sofia
and Vienna, but that the Rumanians
have succeeded as yet in striking a
serious blow was denied.
On the other hand Rumanian and
Russian sources OF information declared
that the Rumanians have already won
strategic victory by their crossing
Of the Danube, and the reports to the
effect that Austrians aud Bulgarian
monitors had succeeded in cutting the
pontoon bridge by which the Rnman-
inns had crossed the river were dis
credited. y
In Macedonia, Sofia. says, Bulgars
were forced 10 admit defeat at the
hands ofisthe Serbs, s'retiring, y as
TIE Official communiqne from the Bull.
garian capital says, Sin order TO avoid
unnecessary losses -
The news Of the great counter Of.
fensive launched BY he Rumanians
reached Rome yesterday and was tele-
graphed from that city. II was as
serted that General Won Maskensen,
the German commahdsr-in-chief in the
Balkan theater of war, has commended
his German Bulgarian armies to fall
back from the positions they hold in
the Dobrudja district, and 70 abandon
the captured fortress of Turtukai, TAX
en- few weeks ago from the Ruman-
JAMS. n.
May Baik German Plans
Military experts hold that the Ru.
manian coup may upset the German
strategy in the Balkans. The stroke
Of throwing a force. across the Danube
into Bulgaria is the outstanding fea-
ture OF the eastern war arena, and If
the force proves 10 be formidable in
size, II will constitute serious menace
to the army commended by Won Mack
ensen. The latter will then have the
Rumanisnsi and Russians in front and
on one funk, and the allied armies Of
the Serbs, British and !. French and
possibly the Greeks, In the rear, and
his army may be cut Of.
On the other Rnmanian fronts,0
continues the commnnique from the
German general staff, stthe Tentons
have been withdrawing before superior
Rumanian forces This last refers
70 the fighting in the Transylyanian
districts
In the west the situation as whole
is unchanged. The British and French
continued the work Of consolidating
the gains they had made north and
south Of the Somme river The at
tacks Of the Germans were beaten back
10 several Of the sectors Of this front.
They we're particularly hcayy north Of
Raneourt where the Germans attempt-
ed 20 debouch from ST. Pierre Vast
wood and flank the French lines.
The Russian offensive against the
Germans defending the 6tokhod line
vest Of Lutsk continued says reports
from PetrogFad, and the Slavs claim TO
have made gains In that region Ber-
lin says that the attacks were repulsed
IN that region. 3
! The Germans Monday attempted 10
launch an oifensive south on Dvinsk.
where for y, long time they have been
quiet, but the Russians claim 10 have
heltcd thea attack with their machine
guns and artillery. The heaviest
fighting in this region was in the yicin.
lily Of Nova Alexandroysk. t
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