The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-12-01
TEUTONS TAKE
FOES ALT Line
Alexandria, Al Miles from Bu-
Charest, Captured.
1900 ARE MADE PRISONERS

Drive Is Continued on All Sides-Ad-
Vances by Western Teuton Forces
Bring Them in Line With Those
from South-AII Three Reach Points
Nearly Equal Distant from Capital.
BERLIN, - A great attack de-
livered by the entente troops along
the Macedonian front rom Trnova,
northwest of Monastir, to Makovo,
northeast of that city, failed, says the
war office.
The sector of the entente front in
Macedonia between Trnova and Ma
kovo is about seventeen miles long,
running a few miles north of the cap
tured Serbian city.
PETROGRAD The war office
announces that the retiring Rouman-
ians are resisting the Austro-German
forces in western Wallachia, awaiting
themselves of natural defenses. The
invaders have occupied positions on
the Vede river between Rochi de Vede
and Valeni
The Russian announcement indi-
Gates that the Austro-German forces
are closing in rapidly on Bucharest
from the west. Rochi de Vede is about
forty-f1ve miles southwest of the Rou-
manian capital and Valeni is f1fty-five
miles west. The advance brings up
the front of the invaders in this Sec
tor approximately on a line with the
forces farther south, which were re-
ported by Berlin to have arrived be-
fore Alexandria, forty-seven miles
southwest of Bucharest.
Rush Roumanians Over River.
BERLIN German and Aus
tro-Hungarian troops under command
of Lieutenant General Kraft Won Del
mensingen, advancing on both side of
the River Alt, in Wallachia, pushed
back the ROumanian forces beyond
the TopoIong river, says the official
statement issued by the German ar
my headquarters. Alexandria, a Rou-
manian town, forty-seven miles south
west of Bucharest, was captured by
TeutOn forces.
The ROumanian forces, which had
retired from the Danube town of Or
sova, were pushed further to the
southeast by the Austro-German
troops, the statement adds, and this
ROumanian force has been blocked
by the approach of other Teuton
forces in the rear. In this sector TWEEN
ty-eight officers and 1900 men have
been captured by the Teutons, who al
so have taken three cannon, great
quantity of munitions and 800 loaded
vehicles.
Allies Attacks Broken Down.
Strong attacks were directed by
troops of the entente allies against
German positions on the heights to
the east of ParlovO, in southern Ser
bia, says the statement. These at
tacks broke down under the tenacious
resistance of the German rifle bat
talions. West of the Vardar river
British troops directed strong fire
against the Teuton positions and then
launched an attack, which was re-
pulsed.
From the Danube ports between Or
sOva and RuStchuk up to the present
six steamers and eighty barges are in
German hands, most of them with val
liable cargoes, according to the state
ment.
Roumanians Retreat from Ait.
BUCHAREST The Rouman-
ians have retired on the line of the
River Alt, the war Office announces.
The Roumanians also have retired
a little to the east of the Topolog
river.
The TOpolOg is a tributary of the
Alt, into which it flows at point
about forty miles south of the Hungar-
ian border, below Rothenthurm pass.
1t runs parallel to the Alt over most of
it's course, about ten miles east of
that river. This section of the front
is northwest of Bucharest and it's
abandonment by the Roumanians was
forced by the Austro- German advance
farther south, hanking the Alt line.