The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-25
ENTENTE FORCES
FORCED BACK ON
DOBRUDJA FRONT
French Say TeutOn Lines at
Verdun Burst -

LONDON. oct 25-Tchernavoda,
the last point OF rail communication
possessed by the entente forces in Do
hrudIa has been captured by the cen-
trail power, \ Berlin statement telling
OF the victory and retirement OF the
Russian, and Rumanians Is admitted
by Petrograd and Bucharest Tcherna-
voda i, on the Dauube and is the gate
way to interior Rumania from the
southeast
The Rumanian statement says that
the Rumanlan lines are now north NJ
the town. Pctrpgrad says that Field
Marshal Won Mackenscn is continuing
his attack along the Dobruda front,
and has compelled the evacuation OF tn.
Russo Rumanlan position at Lake Tac-
haul near the Black Sea coast. about
| twelve miles north OF Constanza
/ Vulcan Pass Taken.
Berlin also announces today tbs
capture by General Won Falkenhayn's
army of Vulcan pass on the Transyl-
vanlan front Bucharest comedies that
a further retirement OF Rumanian
forces on the TranSylvanan front has
been made, the forces near predeal and
kimpolung being forced to fall back
little
Hold Entire Railroad.
With Tchcrnavoda IN their hands, the
Germans and their allies in DobrudJa
now have possession OF the entire rail-
road between the Black Sea and the
Danube.
AT Tchernavoda, the Danpbe is
spanned by railroad bridge that would
offer the Teutopic allies the best means
OF invading old Rumania and striking
at Bucharest, provided the Rumanians
were unable to destroy it before the
evacuation
Vulcan Pass i. one Of the important
passages through the Transylvania
Alps between Hungary and Rumania.
II is midway between the Iron Gate OF
the Danube and Rothanum Pass.
The French victory at Douaumont is
conceded by the German war office.
which says that an attack by the French
on the Verdun front gained ground.
but adds that French assaults on tho
. NOWinc were without success.
Counter Attacks Fail.
The attack on the Nerdun front re-
gained territory which included Fort
Douaumont and stretches along a front
OF more than four miles, a, points
nearly two miles inside the former
German front. Paris says counter at
, tackS today failed to gam. The COM
mander at Douaumont was among the
{ prisoners taken. Fort Naux is still in
, German hands but the French lines
run beyond il on both sides.
1Oday'S French Official statement
announces an important move in the
Balkans where Italian cavalry from
4 southern Albania has formed juno
tion with cavalry and artillery from
the entente front in Macedonia. This
gives the entente an unbrokcn front OF
e $50 miles across the southern Balkan
$ peninsula from Avlona, Albania on
s the Adriatic to the mouth OF the Struma
y river, east OF Saloniki, oN the Aegean
o. coast
c Russian Losses i,759,5S2.
Total casualties in the Russian army
since June are placed at 1859 $50 in
figures given out today by a semi-oi-
!. iical news agency in Berlin declared
y to have been taken from the latest re-
ports OF the Russian central iden,iica-
D. ton bureau at kiey
W Takes Germans By Surprise.
,e The French attack at Nerdun appar-
,r emily took the Germans completely by
h. surprise and at no poin, did they sue
u. ceed in stopping the lmpetuouS rush.
., In three hours The French recaptured
ground to gain which required months
OF patient efforts by the Germans, in
cluding such positions as Douau-
m mont fort and Douamun, wood which,
" were won and lost repeatedly The Of
he ficlal French account OF the battle
to every word of which was weighed
carefully does not say the German line
re was forced back, that II was burs.,
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