The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-12-12
Casualties In Latest Campaign
Have Been Very Heavy On Both
Sides-Defenders OF Buchar-
est Hung On and Struck Back
MACKENSEN OCCUPIES
KING FERDINAND's PALACE
Entente On Offensive On All Other
Fronts and Heavy Artillery
Work On Somme and At Yer
dun Presage New Efforts
Associated Pros, By Federal Wireless,

'AsSociatsd Press ~ Federal Wirslsss)
NJ EW YORK, December 10
4 y Official dispatches from the
warning capitals agree that while
the Rumanians have been defeated
and driven back, with prisoners
taken to the number of seventy
thousand since the Teuton- Bulgar
invasion, they have fought desper-
ately and casualties on both sides
have been very heavy. Even
though the Rumanians have sur
rendered in large numbers, when
cut off and surrounded, they have
not submitted. to defeat without
first desperately resisting and their
casualties have been in fair proper
ton to the prisoners they have lost.
The losses of the invaders in
killed and wounded have likewise
been heavy, although only few
prisoners were taken by the Rum
anlans and Russians. While the
troops of King Ferdinand were in
sufficiently supplied with artillery
and could not effectively reply to
the Teuton guns, yet they were
fighting principally on the de-
fefrsive and were able to punish the
aggressors most severely in many
of the battles.
GERMANS USING TANKS
A feature of the dispatches yes
terday from Berlin is the claim
that the Germans used tanks"
against the Rumanians, the claim
being that they have adopted the
idea of the British land-cruiser and
improved upon it, having machines
that will travel at the rate of TWEEN
ty-hve miles an hour, while the
British tanks are comparatively
slow. These tanks, it is stated,
were given their baptism of fire
and tests in Rumania, proving
equal to expectations.
The amount of booty taken by
the captors of Bucharest is de-
scribed in the Berlin dispatches as
"incalculable."
RUMANIANS RETREAT
The fate of the main Rumanian
army and the Russian divisions is
as yet unknown and it is doubtful
whether they have been able yet to
reach their prepared positions on
the Buzeu River. All the reports
state that they are continuing to
fall back, with the Teuton- Bulgar
armies pressing on their rear.
From Amsterdam it is reported
that Lieutenant General Won Helm
rich has been named by the Kaiser
as military governor at Bucharest.
General Won Mackensen has seized
the royal palace as his headquar-
tiers. The population is quiet, max
ing no attempt to resist the invad-
ing soldiery, although a third of
the residents of the capital have
fled, preferring exile to remaining
under the orders of the German
military commanders.
ALLIES BUSY ELSEWHERE
On the other fronts it is indi-
Gated that the Entente is forcing
the fighting. There has been heavy |
artillery firing, along the Somme
and before Hill 3O4 in the Verdun
sector, apparently preliminary to
another general offensive on the
part of the French and British.
The weather has cleared and the
ground is hard, making a resump-
ton of the offensive once more
possible.
The Russians yesterday launch
ed series of attacks along the
Upper Moldavian and Transylva-
man fronts, which, according to
Rerlin and Vienna were reDulS-