Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-28
Berlin War Office Announces
Further Success Of German
Arms in Roumanian
War Theater.
VICTORY NEAR MoNAsTIR
Roumanian Forces Are Driven
from Alt Valley to Line Be-
yond Topolog River.
Won MACKENsEN ADVANCES

berun, NOV. E/.-lDy WHSiSSS "
Sayville. 1.-The war~office announced
tonight that the whole line of the Alt
river~in Roumania is in the hands Of
the .Teutonc troops. A severe defeat
of the entente forces northwest of
Monastir also was recorded.
A great attack delivered by the en-
tente along the Macedonian front,
from Trnova, northwest of Monastir
to Markovo, northeast of that city,
failed, says the announcement.
Berlin, Nov. 27.-(By Wireless to
Sayville. .)-German and Austro-Hun-
garian troops under command of
Lieutenant General Kraft Won Del
mensingen, advancing on both sides
Of the River Alt, in Wallachia, yes
terday pushed back the Roumanian
forces beyond the Topolog river,
says the official statement issued to-
day by the German army headquar-
tiers. The statement reads: ID
in the Carpathians Russian re-
connoitering detachment in the Lu-
dova sector was repulsed, as were
several battalions north of the Ne
grasora valley.
German and Austro-Hungarian
troops of Lieutenant General Kraft
Won Delmensingen, advancing on both
sides of the Alt from the north,
forced the enemy behind the Topolog
sector. East of Tigveni, Saxon in
fantry regiment No. l02, brilliantly
assisted by New Mark field regi-
ment No. 54, which for quick effort
took positions Immediately in front
of the enemy, broke through the hos
tile lines and captured from the, enc
my ten officers, 400 men and seven
machine guns.
"Vedea sector, Alexandria was
reached on both sides and the town
captured.
"Our troops from TurnutSeverin
\ pushed the remainder of the Rouman-
Nian Orsova group towards the south
east. Other forces in that direction
are blocking their way. The defeated
enemy, besides sanguinary casualties
has lost here up I'd the present sn
steamers and eighty barges, which
are in our hands, most of them with
Q valuable cargoes.
ARMY group of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen: Hostile attacks carried
out in Dobrudja by Russian cavalry
and infantry were failures. An ad-
vance by Bulgarian battalions re.
pulsed the enemy in front of our pc.
sitions cast of Ercheseo.
THE Danube army is advancing ir
Roumania The resistance to it is
breaking" y
Germans Cross Danube.
Sofia, Nov. 26.-(Via London, Nov
27.)-The Bulgar-German forces U
der Field Marshal Mackensen hav,
crossed the Danube at two points cas-
of the Alt valley, according to ar
official statement i3suaG by the wal
Office today. The first crossing wa.
made by the Bulgarians near Sivis
tova, about fifty miles east Of the foo
of the Alt valley. The second cross
ing was made by the Germans neal
Somovit, at the mouth of the AIT. TIL,
statement follows:
IAN Italian battalion which at
tempted a counter attack near Tar
nova was repulsed. After artiller,
preparations the enemy unsuccessful,
attacked Hill 1850, east of Paralovo
On the rest of the front there wa
lively artillery fire.
In the Dobrudja there was artil
lery firing and patrol engagements
The enemy has entrenched before ou
positions. Detachments of our troops
cooperating with the Germans, wer
the first to cross the, Danube nea
Sivistova and after some fighting tool
the town of Zimnitza, where larg
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