The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-17
Bucharest Tells Of Stand Made BY
Her Armies and Of Counter At,
tacks Which Prove Successful
Against German Commander
BERLIN STATEMENT ASSERTS
WHOLE ARMIES ENTRAPPED
British Continue Steady ADJ
vance Along Line Of Struma
River and French Make Gains
North and South Of Somme
tAs.oela.sd Prom by Fsd.ral Wir.l.,.,

(Associatsd Press by Federal wirslassl
n ARIS, October l7--Reports Of the
- fighting in the Transylvanian re.
gion continue irreeoncilabie. Des-
patchet from Bucharest tell OF a stand
by the Rumanian troops, aided by the
Russians, and the repulse Of Teufonic
attacks all along the line, save the Bur.
zen valley, where the Ruman:ans have
been compelled to retire TO the south.
Berlin, fatty contradicts this state
ment, and says that the German, and
Austrian commanded has succeeded In
entrapping the Rumanians and IN prae.
tically exterminating two OF the Ru,
manian armies. Last night the oficial
dispatches from Berlin and Vienna
said that the lighting was eontinu.
ing. |" XIV s. ,is 4 e 5Ss { Y. 6, 2.
The Bumanian ofHcial eommanlque
issued last night declared that on the
!ipe OF the Alta RIVER the atfneherf.
I'D gefi 1tstdektd and the plftatIel.,'I
takep o firm stand ana had occupied
sevetnl Teutonie positions and taken
many Teutonic prisoners.
Says Rumanians Trapped y
The German general STAFF, in the
statement it ISSUED earlier in the day.
says that. trapped by the enyeiopines
movements Of General Won Falken.
hayn's troops operating In Transyi.
vania, two Rumanians armies Of inva.
sion have been badly cut up and one
OF them virtually wiped out.
Fighting in the Transylvania aroma
has been of a ferocits ana bloodiness
exceiled by nothing in the entire
European conflict. The battles Of
Hermannstadt and Krohstadt. both
claimed as German victories, have been
followed by pitiless hunting down Of
the strangglers, and small detachmentA.
cut on from the main body, have been
wiped out I,.
The Overseas News Agency yester.
day has a despatch that the Rumanian
second army, retreating toward the
frontier after a disastrous battle with
the AustrorGerman troops, has lost ap-
proximately two divisions. b. !.
First Army Annihilated
The Rumanian first army, which, Ied
the invasion and bore the brunt Of the
determined Teuton defsnse, has heen
virtually "annihilatedS, and the see.
ond army has lost the major part Of IT.
troops, the despatch says.
Transylvania is now clear Of Ruman.
ians, month after they poured through
the passes by the thousands. Exeeut
for small sections near the border.
where they have thrown up entrench.
ments and still hold out, the country
has been all cleared out aud they have
struggled back through the mountain
passes. .. ....-
| The Rumanians are making a deter.
mined stand on the other hide. Here
they have occupied the village of Ru
earu, seven miles south OF the border.
and are holding II. Meanwhile the
TeutOns, after successful operations in
the Dobrudja district, are aiming 4
thrust in the direction Of Bucharest.
adds the German account.
stalemate In Galicia
| In the theater of Galieia and volhys
mia the fighting which has been going
forward so furiously OF late has re-.
suited in q stalemate. Neither side re.
ports even minor gains, but both tell
of heavy struggles and attaeks by the
other. tft' ~ tif "a
Berlin in its Official report on the
lighting there says that the Russian
strokes have been broken against the
Iron defense Of the Teutonie lines,
while Petrograd declares that the at.
tacks made by the Germans and Aus.
trians have been shattered BY the gun
fire of the Slav artillery. -.
In the Balkan theater the Allies un-
der the command Of General Serial
have resumed their attacks upon the
Bulgar German armies opposing them.
South of MOnastir the Serbians struck
a series of blows that were spccessful,
but Sofa says that the Bulgars have
checked attueks west Of that city. The
British have made minor Rains and
have progressed slightly in the direc.
tioR of Demir. Hissar, and British pa.
trolls have entered the town of Bur,
suk. 3r#
Great Guns Grow Busy -
in FFagce the struggle north and
south of the Somme continues with but
little abated fury. The big guns Of
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