The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
RUMANIANS CHECK
TEUTONIC ALLIES
Bucharest Reports Big Victory
Over Gen. Won MaCkenSen's
Force in Dobrudja.
BATTLE RACED FOR SIX DAYS
Famous German Field Marshal Forced
to Retreat Toward South-Both
Sides Lose Heavily.

SlOGS Lose E1SaNtETs
London, Seut. PA dispatch from
Bucharest tonight says that the Bull
garian and German forces under Field
Marshal Won Mackensen have been
defeated in the Dobrudja and are in
retreat toward the Bulgarian border.
The definite repulse of the invaders
in Southeastern Rumania, the dis
patch adds, follows a six-day battle in
which there was much desperate
fighting.
Fought Near Trajan's Wall.
The action began while the Ruma-
Man and Russian forces still were re-
treating before Won Mackensen's
forces after the fall of the fortresses
of Turtukai and Silistria The Russo
Rumanian army finally reached a
prepared position extending from the
Danube to the Black Sea not far south
of the ancient Wall of Trajan.
The Bulgarian and German forces
attacked desperately all along this
front and penetrated it at several
places. Further re-enforcements of
Rumanian and Russian troops reach
ed the line, however, and with these
and through desperate fighting on the
part of a Serbian division, the inva-
ders were driven back
Mackensen's First Defeat.
The battle began September Is and
was the climax of Won Mackensen's
swift advance into DObrudja. And,
incidentally, it IS the first severe de-
feat this famous German field mar
shall has suffered since the start of
the war. Bulgarian troops made up
the bulk of the invading army, but
there were several Turkish and Ger
man divisions included.
In their retreat, Bucharest says, the
Bulgars are burning villages and de-
strOying bridges.
In regard to the fighting in Dobrud-
ia, the Berlin official statement to-
night merely says that the battle has
come to standstill."
Win in TransyIVania, Too.
In addition to their notable sue
cesses within their own territory, the
Rumanians have progressed further
into Pennsylvania. Today Rumanian
forces entered Orderhei, better known
as Skekely Udvarhely, fifty miles
northeast of Kronstadt. One-fourth
of Pennsylvania is now in .Rumania's
possession.
On the Macedonian front, the stage
is being set for another great battle
before Monastir, the first great OBJ
jective of the Serbs in their efforts
to reclaim their country. The Ger
mans and Bulgarians, according to re-
ports from Sa1oniki, are striving to
intrench before the city, while the
Serbs, who are waiting for REINFORCE
is, are harrassing them constantly
ments, are harrassing them constantly.
French Hold Their Gains.
London, Sept. 21.-In an effort to
retrieve in part their lost territory,
the Germans. today, despite the bad
weather, made violent counter attacks
against the French over a three-mile
front near Priez farm and Bouchaves-
mes, north of the Somme.
In mass formation the Teutons
threw attack after attack along the
line from 8 o'clock in the morning un-
til dark and at the end of the day the
French were everywhere holding their
positions, according to Paris, and the
battle field at points was covered with
German dead.
During the fighting the Germans
penetrated the northeastern part of
Bouchavesnes, but here the French met
them with the bayonet and dislodged
them. Four assaults at the Priez farm
were repulsed by the French, whose
observers assert that Germans at last
withdrew in disorder, leaving many
dead
On the British front the inclement
weather still holds the opposing sides
to artillery duels.
Rumanians Suffer Reverse.
In the eastern theater, in Russia and
Galicia both Berlin and Vienna report
the repulse of heavy Russian attacks
in the Lutsk sector of Volhynia and
southeast IF Lemberg, in Galicia. Lo-
cal successes for the Russians in the
Carpathians are conceded by the
Teutonic allies, who say, however.
that on the whole the Russian attacks
in this region were repulsed.
In the Pennsylvania the .Rumanians
apparently have met with a Serious
reverse near Eatszeg, where they
have been driven back by the Teu-
tonic allies to the Transylvanian Alps,
and the town of Petroseny and the
SZurduk pass recaptured from them.