The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-09
TEUTONS CLOSING
IN ON BUCHAREST
Army of Won Mackensen Has
Approached Within IS Miles
of Rumanian Capital.
Won FAlKENHAYn ADVANCING
Defensive Positions East of the Ait
River Fall Into Hands of the
Invaders.

London, Dec. Field Marshal Won
Mackensen's invading German-Bulger
army has approached to within fifteen
fifteen miles of Bucharest. At one
point his advance guard is only twelve
miles away, and even now the big
Teuton guns may be laundering
against the outlying forts.
Following the capture of Giurgiu,
Won Mackensen advanced along the
road leading to the Rumanian capital
and today Berlin announced the cap
ture of Tzcmana, sixteen miles from
Bucharest.
With Campulung taken, the army
OF Won Falkenhayn is continuing its
pressure against the Rumanians. The
situation is regarded glOomily by the
London critics tonight, although there
is still hope that the RumanianS may
elect to make stand before Bucha-
rest.
Rumania to Make Stand.
Bucharest, Dec 1.-The Rumanian
troops have taken a stand along the
Glavatziotzu river, southwest of Buch-
Arrest. The war office today reports
violent fighting on this front and also
all along the line in the north.
Teutons Pressing Hard.
Berlin, Dec. 1.-The Rumanian de-
fensive positions in the mountain dis
trict east of the Alt River are COM
ing more uhder the increasing pres
sure of General Won Falkenhayn's ad-
Vancing army, says the Overseas News
Agency. After the victory near Tig-
Veni November 26 the fate of the long
defended position at Curtea de Arg
mes was doomed and there the monu-
ment of the late King Carol of Ru-
mania fell into the possession Of Gen
era1 Won Falkenhayn.
Rumanians Move Capital.
Paris, Nov. 29.-The Rumanian gov
eminent and diplomatic authorities
have left Bucharest and gone to Jassy,
according to a Havas dispatch from
Bucharest.
Jassy lies about two hundred miles
north of Bucharest, near the Russian
frontier.
London, Nov. 29.-Anxiety here as
to the fate of Bucharest is greatly in
creased. Field Marshal Won Macken-
sens capture of Giurgiu today shows
miles in a single day.
Nothing is yet admitted by the Ru-
manians of the Teuton advances
claimed by Berlin, but it is assumed
that the defenders are continuing
their orderly retirement toward the
line of the Argesiu river. a danger,
however, lies in the possibility of this
retirement not being effected quickly
enough to prevent an attack on their
flank from Won Mackensen's forces.
The Allies Cause Weakened.
1t is impossible to doubt that the
situation is viewed here with the
greatest misgivings. The question is
being frankly asked whether the &C
cession of Rumania to the Entente
Allies cause has brought strength or
weakness, whether Russia has rem
dered the assistance which might be
expected from her and whether the
Allies might not have shown more
initiative in attack from Saloniki !;
whether the collapse in Ruman1a is
due to any lack of unity in the Allies
plans on strategy, or whether it is due
in large part to Rumania's hasty in
Yasion of Pennsylvania.
On the other side of the account it
has been noted that continued care is
being displayed in Rumanian military
and political circles, where the sug,
gestion that Russia has not given all
possible aid is warmly repudiated, and
the Rumanians appear fully convinced
that it will not be long before the
great efforts Russia is making will
bear effective fruit
Closing in on Bucharest.
London, Nov. 28.-Only miracle ap
parently can save Bucharest from the
advancing Teuton hosts of Won Mack
ensen and Won Falkenhayn Driven
from the line of the Alt river today
the Rumanians, in danger of disastrous
flank attacks, are fastening their re
treat eastward in order to escape the
encircling movement.
A solid wall of Teuton troops now
extends from the TransylXanian Alps
to the Danube, over 150-mile front
and is sweeping steadily toward the
Rumanian capital. So rapid has VoI
Falkenhayn's advance been that fol
lowing the capture of the Alt line hi:
forces have reached the Topolos
river.