The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-11-02
HUGE ARMY SENT
TO HALT 7EUT0NS
Battle Is in Progress on 30-Mile
Front in Dobrudia.
ALLIES ON THE OFFENSIVE
Bucharest Declares Won Maekensen's
Forces Have Been Driven Back
Berlin Says 10000 Prisoners
Have Been Captured.

Zurich, Nov. IAN army whose
strength Is estimated at 100000 men,
has opened an offensive against Won
Mackensen's German allies in Do
brudja, says a dispatch from Bucha-
rest today. Fighting Is in progress
over q 30-mile front from Serai to
point near Tariverdi.
Berlin, Nov. 1.-Mackensen's forces
in DobrudJa are engaged with the Rus
so-ROumanlans for the first time since
the enemy retreated from the CZerna.
voda-C onstanza railway line.
A dispatch received here said that
Il the Roumanians have reformed their
l4ine about 90 miles north of the rail-
way.
Sharp fighting began Sunday night,
but has not yet assumed the proper
tons of a general engagement. 1t is
believed here that the enemy is at
tempting stubborn rear-guard action
10 cover withdrawal of artillery across
the Danube.
On Hthe Pennsylvania frontier the
Roumanians have suffered heavily in
series of coMter-attacks south of
Vulkan Pass. Only skirmishes are re-
ported on the northern Roumanian
front.
Allies Begin Offensive.
London, Nov. 1.-The Russian, Ser
bian and Roumanian forces in Do
brudja have assumed the offensive, ar
cording 20 Petrograd reports.
Roumanian troops that expelled the
Austro- German invaders from Tragu
Jivlui, in the jul valley, Wallachia
continue to hammer the foe back to-
wards the Vulkan Pass, 20 miles to
the north Of the Transylvanian from
tier.
Pursuing the Teutons, Of whom 900
Bayarians were captured in the earlier
attacks, the Roumanians report that
312 more of the enemy have surren-
dered md that four machine guns have
\ been seized.
Activity in the yulkaA Pass region
: is regarded rs Of greEs importance at
Bucharest. Once the invaders are
thrust out by this route, and the pas
sage is again in the hands of the Rou-
manians, the Austro- German line along
the Carpathian Border will be pierced
and perhaps forced to fall back, espe-
cially If Petr0Seny, which . only ABOUT
seven miles within the Transylvanian
line be occupied Of threatened.
FaIkenhayn Also Menacea.
H., lit. 4 4,
lieved, will relieve the Roumaninn en-
tire 3S9-mlle mountain front, for which
the Teutons are battling.
General Won Falkenhayn is also
threatened some 100 miles to the east
of the Vulkan Pass in the vicinity of
lie to the south of Kronstadt. Both
Petrograd and Bucharest have an
nounced two repulses for Austro- Ger
man columns toward Clabucetul
Baiudu, north of Azugo, which lies
scarcely five miles within the Rouma-
MAN frontier.
This fighting in the Prahova valley
was undertaken with the idea of block
ing the advance on Campulung 20
miles within the border to the south
west.
Berlin comedies that Teutonic col
umn was pushed back southwest of the
Szurluk Pass, but claims that Rou-
manian positions southwest OF the
Rothenturm Pass were taken by storm
and Tint the prisoners captured in this
region now number 100.
10000 Taken Captive.
Berlin asserts that the efforts of
the ROumanians to recapture Tran
sylvania frontier positions have been
without success and estimates the
number of ROumaniah prisoners taken
October 10 at more than 10000.
If the Bucharest wireless message
reporting the repulse of the Austro,
Germans from the frontier is con,
firmed, itSmcans that the Szurduk
pass has been reOccupied and that
KrOnstadt, eight miles within the Aus.
trian frontier, is threatened.
Moreover, 1t implies that Falken.
hayn's line is pierced almost in the
center, and he will have to get out of
Roumania entirely in order to shorten
his front and protect his wings from
hpinp overwhelmed ....