Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-09
Onrushing Teutonic Invaders
Subdue Rumania and Cap
ture Many Prisoners.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CHECKED
Berlin Pronounces Drive in
Carpathians Failure; Active
in the West Again.

Pursuit of the retreating Russian
and Rumanian forces i'm eastern Wal
lachia by Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen continues. but how far the Teu.
tonic advance has progressedd is not
made clear In the latest official COM
munlques. Berlin chronicles the con-
tlnuation of the advance along tho
whole front and pctrograd saws tho
Russians and Rumanians have been
fetlring since the evacuation of the
iumania capital.
seemingly the retiring defenders of
kumanian soil are offering little re-
slstance and are cndcayoring to reach
ihc llne OF the Buzeu river before tho
AustIo-Ncfllans can break thru the
Moldavian frontier and get in their
rear or the Bulgarans and Germans
can cross the Danube around Tcher-
naVoda and outflank them. However,
there has been little activity either on
the Transatlantic Moldavian frontier
or IN Dobrudja. The Germans have
fepulsed Russian attack in the Tro-
Jus valley and the Russians report the
checking of an offensive movement in
the Oituz valley. Pctrograd saws ali
mas been calm in Dobrudja and along
the Danube
Round Up Stragglcrs.
In the rounding up OF the forces cut
OH by their advance on Bucharest ihe
troops of Won Mackensen have can
lured $4,000 prisoners and 26 guns.
me Kumanlan troops isolated in
western Wallacha, numbering 5000.
nave been taken as well as 10000 of
the FORCES operating around Predeal
and Altchanz passes.
undeterred apparently by the check.
ing OF their offensive in the Carpath-
lans the Russians have again taken
the initiative there, Petrograd states.
The present Russian attempt Is taking
place south of Jarovnik. Berlin says
the Russian offensive in the Carpath-
ians can be said 10 be n failure and
declares only local attacks have oc-
-curred4 In that region. The repulse
OF ltussian attack on the Dvina front
| below Riga also Is recorded by Berlin.
Active at Hill SOL.
Hill 3O4 in the Nerdun region and
the forest of Aprcmont, southeast of
ST Mihiel, have been the scenes of
the only reported activity on the west
ern front. Paris claims the Germans
were elected from "A section of the
trenches on hill 3O4. but Berlin as
serts the troops of the crown prince
fopulscd French attempts to retake
the trenches The Germans. Paris
records. succeeded in gaining a foot
ing In French trenches in the forest
of Apremont but later were elected
by counter-attack
Heavy fighting around Struvina
east of Monastir on the Macedonian
front, Is recorded by Paris. which says
the Serbians checked three attacks by
German and Bulgarian troops. Serbian
attacks near Trnova, west of Monastir,
were repulsed, Berlin states.
Snow u Handicap.
Snow In the Trentino region and
rain on the Carso is hampering infan-
try action on the Austro- Italian front.
The loss of the battleship Suffren,
with its complement of 7lS men, is
considered probable by the French
minister of marine. The Suffren,
which sailed from Lorient, Brittany,
on November "a, has not been heard
from since.
The loss Of four steamships - two
Norwegian one Greek and one Bel
gian-is announced in London, as is
the reported sinking of the British
steamer Caledonia of g,223 gross tons.
The Caledonia has been in the service
of the British government