Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-06
FALL:0F CAPITAL
OF ROU M A MIA
SEEMS CERTAIN
Petrograd Says Attempts to
Check Rush of Teuton
Armies Has Been
Unsuccessful.
GERMANS ARE NEAR CITY
Invaders Cross Railroad Lead
ing from Tergovistea to
Bucharest.
MANY PRISONERS TAKEN

The fate of Bucharest apparently
is sealed. The Teutonic advance to-
ward it is going on unchecked Rou-
manian attempts TO stop IT having
been unsuccessful. This announce
ment is made in the Russian official
statement today.
On the Macedonian front the Ser
bians are following up their victory
in the Grunishte region and have
captured the village of Stravina, three
miles north OF Grunishtc. according
to Serbian official statement The
Bulgarians are reported retreating
northward, apparently having evac-
uated and set on fire the village of
Zovik, two miles northwest of Stra-
vina. The French and Serbians are
announced by Paris to have made
progress also within the bend of the
Cerna further west, north Of the viii
lage of Paralovo.
A Copenhagen research society is
reported in a Berlin dispatch as esti-
mating the total losses of the entente
powers during the war at 100000
men, of which the Russians lost g.
100000 men, The French 3700,000,
the British 100000 and the Italians
100000, the smaller nations making
up the remainder.
Russian Official Report.
Petrograd, Dec. 5.-(Via London }
The Roumanians have been unsuc-
cessful in attempts to check the Teu-
tonic forces on the roads to Ploechti
and Bucharest, says the war office in
today's official statement, which also
says:
"Roumanian front: On the Moda-
Wan frontier, in the valley of the
River Trotus and>south to the valley
of the River Dovtian, engagements
are still proceeding. We again cap
tured a range of heights, but the
enemy is showing stubborn resistance
and attempting to restore its posi-
ton by counter attacks"
/ German Official Report.
Berlin, Dec. 5.-(By Wireless to
| Sayxille, ,)-Renewed Russian attacks
I in the Carpathian forests and along
the line OF the Transylvanian frontier
were made yesterday, but did not gain
the slightest success, it is announced
officially. Tcutonic troops recaptured
lost positions.
an western Roumana the Teutonic
troops are pursuing the defeated Rou-
manians on the front before Buchar-
est. They are across the railroad
leading from Bucharest to Tergovis-
tea. In the Danube lowlands Russian
attacks were repulsed with heavy
losses and the number of prisoners
taken has been increased to 1880.
, The statement follows:
Front of Archduke Joseph: Re-
) newed Russian attacks on Capul and
northeast of Dorna Watra and in
the Putna Trotus and Uzul valleys
were without the slightest success.
) Simultaneously German and Austro-
, Hungarian troops recaptured by
! storm and hand to hand fighting a
height position lost during the pre-
cedng fighting which was an inn
portant one for us. After these en-
gagements, OF which some were very
violent, there remained in our hands
on the Nerchdebry, south of Tartar
pass, more than 100 men and five ma
, chine guns, and on Mount Nemira, in
the northern Oituz valley, $50 prison.
ers and eight machine guns.
Army group of Field Marshal vor
, Mackensen: The Ninth army during
the pursuit OF the enemy broke the
resistance OF the hostile rear guards
and crossed the Bucharest-T -Tergovis.
a-Petrosita railroad to the east
ward.
The Danube army after the vic.
tory gained on the lower Argechr
against numerically superior forces
followed the retreating enemy i'll this
sector. In the victory mentioned the
2l7th infantry division took an es'
pecially glorious part.
THE left wing OF the Danube army
j., fought its way beyond this sector
The easterly wing in the Danube
lowlands sanguinarily repulsed Rus
sian attacks.
THE number OF prisoners reported
yesterday has increased to 1880. Tc
the number captured by the Ninth
! army further 1000, and to that o.
the Danube army $500 men have
: been added. The prisoners last men.
J toned belonged to twenty-five III
fantry and six different artillery reg
9 iments.
! IN Dobrudja there have been nc
4 major engagements.
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