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Won Ff,Lk N H A Y Ms ARMi9s
CRUSH BUCHAREST FORCES
IN THREE-DAY BATTLE.
ZEPPELIN IN new RAID
BRITISH LOSE 10000 OFFICERS
AND MEN ON THE soMME
IN SEPTEMBER.

Western Newspaper Union News Servics
London, Oct. 3.-Troops OF the cen
tral powers have crushed the Ruma
mans between forces in battle
which ragged for three days in central
Pennsylvania.
The Rumanians fled in disorder.
Gen. Won Falkenhayn. attacking the
Rumanians, divided his force OF Ger
mans and Austro Hungarinns. One
body engaged then around Hermann
stadt, and the other encircied them
and seized Rothenthurg pass. fifteen
miles southeast of Hermannstadt and
one of the first points gained by the
Rumanians in their advance.
During September the British on
the Somme lost almost 100000 Off
GERS and men. This is at the rate or
$500 a day. but falls below the daily
human cost for August. Since the OF
fensive began, figuroes published In
London show that the British have
lost approximately 100000 men.
Still further gains for British and
French troops north of the Somme
river are chronicled in the latest of
ficial communications. Germans have
been driven from positions near the
Stuff redoubt, and also have been
forced to give up all except very
small portion of the Schwaben re-
doubt in this region. Between Lesars
and Flers the British have pushed for
ward. Saturday night and Sunday,
German trenches near Morval and
Clery fell to the French. Berlin re-
ports that attacks by the British east
of Thiepval and by the French in the
vicinity of Rancourt Courceiette.
Morval and Halle were repulsed.
In Galicia the Russians have start
ed another big offensive. Official re-
ports from Petrograd and Berlin are
at variance as to results of the fight
ing. Petrograd reports that thirty
miles northeast of Lemberg the Rus
slams are forcing their way forward
and have captured 1.9S7 officers and
men.
South of Brzezany. fifty miles south
west of Lemburg, and along the right
bank OF the Zlota Llpa, Austro-Ger-
man positions are reported to have
been taken and 112 officers and ..26s
men made prisoner.
Berlin asserts that Russian forces
along the Brody-Lemberg railway were
stopped, but admits the Russians
gained foothold in the south and
also advanced between the Tseniuvka
and Zlota Lipa river.
In Macedonia the Serbians have at
last captured the Kaimakcalan height
on the Greek-Serbian border. The Brit
ish on the Struma have taken a por-
tion of the Bulgarian line near the Orl-
jak bridge.
Four Zeppelin raids on London and
the east coast were carried out last
month the more recent attacks being
made by airships of the newer and
bigger type. On Sept. one Zeppelin
was struck while flying over the Lon
don district and fell in flames, Two
Zeppelins were destroyed In the raid
of Sept. 90. On that occasion the raid
ers killed thirty-eight persons and
wounded 125. The following night.
in another raid. in which the airships
apparently escaped without damage.
they killed thirty-six persons and
NOuuueu twenty -SeNen
London, Sept. 30.-In desperate eff
forts to save Monastir from the fate
that awaits it almost any hour, The
Bulgarians are carrying out series
of violent counter attacks to prevent
the Serbs and their allies from reas-
suming the offensive In Macedonia.
| Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
declares German defenses on Somme
have been made impregnable and that
he is convinced allies never can break
through.
| Speech of Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, imperial chancellor. pro
duces profound impression but fails
to rouse enthusiasm in Germany.
British Front in France.-The cap
ture of Combles was one of the most
picturesque incidents in the whole
course of the great Somme offensive.
1t marked the opening of the forward
surge of the British and French forces
which reached its climax in the cap
ture of Gueudecourt and ThiepvaI
London claims the capture of 10000
prisoners by the English troops In the
Somme fighting in last two weeks.
FreIinehuysen and MARITIME Named.
| Trenton, N. 1.-THE New Jersey
\ primaries resulted in several sur
prises, particularly in the nomination