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TROOPS
NEAR MONASTIR
Four Additional Villages Cap
tured on Both Sides of
the Cerna River.
RUMAHIAHS STILL RETREAT
Austro-eerman Army Making Progress
in TransyIVania-Von Mackensen
Still Falling Back.

London. Nov. 17.-In the Macedo-
MAN theater the entente troops con-
tinue to press the Teutonic allies and,
according to the Serbian war office,
have seriously broken their line both
east and west of the Cerna river south
east of Monastir, capturing four addi-
tiOnal villages east OF the river and
on the west side, driving them back
from several additional points toward
Monastir. Berlin admits that in the
Cerna region the BulgSrian-German
forces have left old positions and oc-
cupied newly prepared ones. To the
east the British have taken the town
of Karakaska, on the east side of
Lake limos.
Rumanians Falling Back
The Austro-German armies in the
TRANSATLANTIC theater in the Alt and
jul valleys have forced a further re-
tirement of the Rumanians and also
have made progress in the Rothen-
thurm and Szurduk pass regions, TAX
ing 1000 prisoners. On the west Mol
davia front Russian attacks east of
the Putna valley were put down by
the Teutonic Allies, as also was an Of
fensive in the vicinity of the Oituse
pass.
Denial is made by Berlin of the as
sertions that the Rumanians have
captured the town of Bonascio on the
Danube.
Bombardments are taking place
along the entire eastern front in Rus
STA and Galicia, according to the Pet
rograd war office. Berlin reports a
repulse of a Russian attack southeast
of Riga.
The situation east of Gorilla is
made somewhat obscure by the vari-
ant claims of the Vienna and Rome
war offices, both of which record sue
cesses for their respective armies.
Won Mackensen. Still Retreatfng.
Petrograd,- Nov. 1.-THE war office
announces that Field Marshal Won
Mackensen's army is in retreat in Do
brudja, burning villages as it falls
back On the Pennsylvania, front in
the region of Campulung, Rumania,
fierce fighting is in progress.
Berlin, Nov. 1.-THE retirement of
mia to new positions prepared for them
in the Cerna region is announced to
day by the war office.
Halt British Drive
London, Nov. 16.-An effort to pre-
vent at all costs further allied gains
in the fighting along the Somme and
Ancre rivers in France is the inter
probation placed here on the fierce
counter attacks delivered by the Ger
mans against the French today and
their tenacious resistance before the
newly launched British drive.
AS a result, Berlin tonight asserts
that the British have been brought to
a halt north of the Ancre and that i'm
portant French positions were won
both north and south of the Somme.
The French official communication,
however, does not agree with the Ger
man version 1t says that unimport-
ant gains were made by the Teutons
at the price of huge losses. General
Haig, too, asserts that the British
have made a further advance along
the Ancre.
The Pennsylvania front, aside from
most sanguinary engagements. Here
the Austro-Germans are gaining
ground against the Rumanians and
Russians. In the Tirgujuily, Alt and
jul valleys the Teutonic allies have
forced their antagonists still further
back.
Admit Loss In Serbia.
Berlin admits that on the Cerna
river bend in Serbia the Entente Al
lies have captured some heights, and
that in the valley the Teutonic Allied
line has been drawn back in order to
prevent pressure on its flanks.
In Galicia, according to the Petro-
grad war office, the Russians have
driven Austro-Germans from former
Russian trenches in the Narayuvka
river region. Berlin asserts, however,
that attacks by the Russians in this
vicinity were repulsed.
British Take Another Village.
London, Nov. 15.-The battle of the
Ancre continues, with the British
wave still beating eastward toward
Bapaume. Beaucourt, another bastion
on a hill, was captured today and the
total OF prisoners brought to more than