The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-02

Interest In tho RumAnlan CAM
paign that conferred upon .
gigantic last minute A&1nmpt BY
Russia to save her balkan ally
from beanx "swallowed up" In tho
vortex Of the multiple TcutOn
wffrlwind advance. Along =
battle front Of nearly $50 miles
from tho much fought-f for Tartar
pass down TO tho northeastern tip
OF the Transylvanian Alps. untold
leEions OF MusCovftcs are being
hurled into unceastng onslauGhts.
The object In 70 smash = WIDE sap
IN thc Teutrm OarpAxfAnn 'front.'
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city, and thence 10 OveEFum tho
Hungarian plntn. Ta1c suCrees Of
this plan, titanic IN outline, but
danicult Of execution n this time
of the year, would compel tho
Tcutons. acmEtling 10 RnssO-
Rumanian calculation, to turn
hack post1laste from Western
Rumania to save the entire eaSe-
ern front from being flanked.
In this new huge Offensive
which has been raging without
pause for foFty-eight hours and
is heightened In ever greater fury
as hours roll by, bringing fresh
Russian rcinforcemearts, the Rus
sian war Office claims gains, wflilo
both Berlin and Vienna assert
that the milsor "Iocal advances
sco.'ed by the Cars forces arc in
no proportion to the terrific losses
inflicted by the Tcuton defense.
Use Great Mass OF Men.
The Austrian war ONCE speaks a
great masses of men" being used
by the Russians in their attacks "fu
the relief of the much-harrassed Ru'
maniana"
A wireless dispatch to Berlin latl
last night reported endless Muscoviet
arriving on the Car.
room for doubt that this eleventh.
hour coup to save Rumania is TIKI
most tremendous offensive attempted
in this war, and that It's full mo-
.en4um has not yet been reached.
Steadily Smashing Onward.
Meanwhile, as II discounting thu
powerful onslaught and Its bearing
On the campaign in Rumania, thu
armies of General Won Falkenhayr
md Field Marshal Won Mackenser
ire steadily smashing ahead, thu
ormer from the north and west. ths
after from the south toward
Bucharest.
Mackensen'. Danube army. accord.
ng to yesterday afternoons Berlin
,eport. has forced its way by light
ny across the Ntaslov lowlands and Il
the course Of the
Argeshu (Arges) In tho direction o.
The Niaslov River now
thirteen and q half miles south Of thu
.apital. Bucharest itself admitted yes
erday evening ofilcially that violent
have taken place on thu
Siaslov to Comana. 1t does not vel
ldmit the loss OF that town (slxteer
niles south OF Bucharest). officially
'eported by Berlin yesterday. to have
,een captured.
The Argos River which the German
var Office says Mackensen il APP
Is seven miles from
and only two and a hall
niles southwest OF the capitals outel
Qualifications. This gives rise to Thu
that the bombardment Of
Bucharest will be we'll under way
when this Is read.
The ill-fated Rumantan Orsova
lrmy, which last week was taken be
ween two Teutcn armies and d
which nothing definite has been heard
'ince was mentioned again In yes.
erday's Berlin report. "Cut OFF from
heir army" says the statement. "the
troops are trying 60
scape their inevitable fate By follow
ng a variable course" Three hundred
prisoners were taken.
Those Of King Ferdinand'e forces
which were driven from the Campu'
ung and Pitesci positions In thu
part of the kingdom arr
aliantly battling to make good theiI
etreat. Reargua~ds. hurriedly en-
renched--behind the various rivers
hat form natural obstacles 10 FAlken-
,ayn'a advance are again and a9Air
aking the offensive. only TO be crush
d BY the Teuton tidal wAve. Nfch
,ooty 10 falling to the invAders - they
weep southeastward. The heroic ~.
ense rendered by the crumbIlnG
forces 10 recruiting II Whnl
he German wAr o0lce dene&1o9M r.
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