Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-10-25
RUMANIANS and RUSSIANS FALL BACK.
Combined Austrian, German, BULGARIAN and
Forces in Pursuit Of Defeated Antagonists.


II Bucharest Oct 22.-Via Lon
> ldon.-Withdrawal of the Ruma,
r mans in Dobrudja in the face o
) violent attacks by Field Marshal
7 Won Mackensen's army, was an
y nounced tonight by the War OF
: fee. The repulse of Teutonl'
forces On the Truusylvanian from
also is reported.
London. Oct. 22.-In the face
of continued violent attacks by
| the Teutonic Allies in Dobrudjs
/ from the, Danube to the Black
lSea, the Rumanians and theil
Russian Allies are still falling
back.
The towns of Toprai Sari, ID
miles. southwest of Constanza and
Cobadin, / { miles southwest of
the Danuise town of Rachova,
have been taken by the combined
Austrian; German, Bulgarian and
Turkish forces, who are declared
by Berlin to be in pursuit of their
defeated antagonists.
On the Transylvania front hard
lighting continues in the noun
tain passes but with the result
in doubt owing to the conflicting
statements of the Berlin. Petro-
grad and Bucharest war offices.
| Petrograd said the Rumanians
have been forced back in the
| Buzeu Valley. Bucharest, how
ever, asserts that counter attacks
by the Teutonic Allies here were
repulsed at the point of the
bayouet. 1t is evident that no
great changes in position have
taken place anywhere along this
front, but that the Rumaniaus
are fighting tenaciously to hold
back the would be invaders of
their country,
The battle of the last week
along the NarayVka river in
Galicia has resulted in an import
ant victory for the Austro-Ger-
man forces over the Russians,
according to Berlin. Here the
Russians now hold only a small
part of the front on the west
| bank of the river after a general
attacl. by the Teutonic Allies be
tween Sviteleniki ard Skomovo-
chy in which the Russians we're
driven back suffering heavy casu
alties Petrograd says: however,
that the fighting along the river
is still going on and that the
positions have changed hands
several times.
Twice today, in the morning
and in the afternoon, the Germans
launched violent attacks against
the positions newly won by t! e
French in the Chaulnes wood,
south of the Somme river in
France. Both attacks were re
pulsed, the Germans suffering
heavy casualties, according to
Paris Some of the attackers in
the morning offensive gained a
foo,hold in the French first line,
but we're surrounded and the $50
survivors made prisoner.
Berlin i'll admitting that in
Saturdays fighting the British
north of the Somme made gains,
lcharac ,erizes the British losses
as a ''r ckless sacrifice of human
lives,' Reyeral trenches between
Blacl1es and La Maisonnette
south Of the Somn1e, were re-
captured Saturday from the
French says Berlin.
! notwithstanding bad weather
Oh the Macedonia front, slight
| additional progress has been made
by the Entente Allies in the
Cerna river region. German
troops now ale aiding their Bull
garlan Allies in the fighting al
the bond of the Carna.
Heavy raintorms and snowfa1ls
are impending the operations il
the Austro Italian theater.
| A German aeroplane which
dropped four bombs at Sheesness
| England. is believed TO have beef
the same aircraft that was de
stroyed later and fell into the sea
under the attack of a Britt Il
naval aeroplaue.
For a Muddy Complexion.
Take Chamberlain's Tablet