The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-12-07
GERMANS NEARING
CAPITAL DESPITE
SLAv DIVERSIONS
TeutoniC Forces Capture Viii
lage IL Miles South of
BuChareSt--Great Bat
tie In Progress.
LAUNCH THANKING MOVES
Russians Hammering Won Falk,
enhayn's Left and Operat-
ing On Right of Mack
ensen In Dobrudja.


P~etrograd, (via London). Dec. s.
Fighting between Russian troops ard
Austro-G German forces In the wooded
Carpath!ans continues, the war office
announced today. One height south
west of ~Jabtonitza, the announcement
says, was captured yesterday hy the
Russians.
P%etrograd, (via London), Doc. S.
The war office announces that the
Teutonic forces have occupied the viii
lage Of G~radichtea, south Of Bucharest.
obstinate fighting Is proceeding be-
tween Alexandria and Bucharest.
Gradishte Is IL miles south of BUch-
Arrest.
The situation in Rumania, still t.;e
chief center Of military interest, Ices
not appear markedly less critical for
the Rumanians, despite the reported
success of the Russo-Rumanian often
sive southwest Of Bucharest in hold
Ing back, temporarily at least, Field
Marshal Won Mackensen's invading
forces.
Bucharest and the armies defending
1t continue under serious threat not
only from the forces on the southwest,
but also from those along the lin Of
h 70 Argechu, stretching northwestward
TO Piteshti, n from General Won Fal-
kenhayn's armies pressing southwark
from the mountain passes on the line
turning abruptly at Pfteshti and ex-
tending northeastward, north OF tho
Rumanian capital.
The force Of the co%nverging attack
h u being pressed from three sides
or Bucharest does not appear TO have
diminished. but the resisting power OF
the Rumanians, reinforced by Russian
troops. seems to have strengthened
somewhat. On their success i'm pre-
venting further important breaks In the
defensive line apparently depends not
only the safety OF Bucharest, but OF
n main Rumanian armies engaged
within the angle Of the Teutonic thrust
Zig Thanking Moves.
Tho Russians are reported to be
making a determined ~outtlanking eff
fort on Won MacSensen's right. Won
Mackensen, operating from the Do
brudja side, has been making an effort
to surround Bucharest from the east
and southeast. He has thrown troops
across the Danube river at several
points and these have been Immediate
ly engaged by Genera Sakharoff's ad-
vanced lines. Up to the present time.
II would appear. the German effort to
isolate Bucharest and cut off the Ru-
manian army fighting in defense OF the
abandoned capital, has been fruitless.
The net effect of the Russian blows.
supported by desperate counter at
tacks by the Rumanians, has been to
perceptibly slacken the German adj
vance all along the Rumanian front
while in n sector, that closest to
Bucharest, the Germans have actually
been thrown back.
Whether the Russian counter move
has been launched in time to save Ru-
mania cannot yet be determined. Ger
tainly IN notable advance from Kir!i-
bahia, on the Bukowina border, would
cause Won Falkenhayn to slow up and
possibly retreat, because, once the Rus
slams have forced a passage OF the Car
pathian passes, they would be well TO
the rear of the German army with the
open plain of Hungary before them.
SERBS PUSHING ON.
Paris. Dec. 5.-Serbian troops nave
captured a Hill north of Grunishte, in
the Macedonian district. east Of the
Cerna river bend, the war office an
nounces.
USING BRITISH TANKS.
Sofia. Dec. 3. via London), Dec. s.
Desperate fighting in the Rumanian
front in which the Bulgarians repulsed
seven attacks made by the Rumanians
is reported in the official statement is
sued by the war office today. Two
tanks arc said TO have been destroyed,
and a third to ave fallen into ths
and of Turkish troops. . =