The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-25
Rumanians Lose Two Principal
Cities Near Iron Gates Of
Danube---Army Flees to Hills
Won MACKENSEN TOO
IS CROSSING DANUBE
On Macedonian Front Franco
Serbian Forces Continue to
Press Back Enemies--Recov-
er 200 kilometers of Land

London. Nov. 24.--Each of the
three events exclusively predicted In
a dispatch to the International News
Service as the next developments Of
the Teuton campaign against Ru-
nanian came to pass today.
Orsova and Turnu Severinu. the lat
ter being just inside the Rumanian
frontier. fell to General Falkenhayn.
and with their capture the doom Of
an entire Russo Rumanian army was
sealed. AS yet there is no news of
what happened to 1t, but 1t Is be-
lieved that it abandoned the two cities
in face of the overwhelming Teuton
man power and artillery and fed into
the hills to the northwest.
BY an ironic trick of fate. Russians
and Rumanians. who some few
months ago set out to overrun the
Hungarian plain. are now driven In
that direction by Falkenhayn, whose
strategic master strokes turned the
tables on Rumania and outfianked
the would-be invaders.
Joint Drive ON Bucharest.
The two other events forecast yes
terday were reported as actual hap
penings In today's official war bulle-
tins. One is Falkenhayn's advance
from Craiova to Rumania's western
| railway barrier" the Rothenthurm
Pass Corabia road. The second is the
crossing of the Danube by the forces
of Field Marshal Won Mackensen.
ushering in the final chapter of the
! Rumanian campaign-the joint drive
/ on Bucharest.
! The Rumanian war ONCE admits
| the withdrawal Of King Ferdinand's
| troops from the left bank of tho
! Oitetx River, In the Oitenie Valley.
! This means that Falkenhayn has ap-s
| preached to the gates Of Slatina and
| is about to seize control of the en-
| tire railway running from the Tran
| sylvanian Alps. down to the Danube.
F, The fall OF Piatra, where this road
converges with the Craiova Campo
i lung railroad, is believed to be a mat
! ter of hours as Is that Of Slatina.
| How rapid Is the eastward advance
from Craiova Is shown by the fact
that the German war Office this after
noon announced, I'VE are approaching
the Alt valley" while tonight's of
fetal bulletin said. I'VE have reached
the Ait valley"
The same statement announced: -
| Forces belonging to the army
group OF Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen have crossed the Danube at sew
eral places"
i This invasion of Rumania from the
south, across the Danube, was force
Swallowed by this afternoons official
report from Bucharest, which said
that in the neighborhood of Zimnitza
seventy miles southwest of Buch-
arest--hostile forces Fad attempted
to disembark."
From Zimnitza a strategic railway
runs northwestward along which
Mackensen's forces could outfiank the
Rumarians now retreat ng in the Alt
ivalley. As Berlin speaks of several
places in telling of the crossing OF
1.-The Danube, 1t is assumed that the
advance on Bucharest from Turtukai
bridge head. thirty-seven miles from
THE capital. also has. begun as that
is the most advantageous point for q
crossing.
Bridges Destroyed.
A wireless dispatch from Rome says
all Danube bridges have been de-
stroyed and that an overflow of the
Danube is threatened. The population
OF the Dobrudja is running short OK
food, the dispatch added.
j. On this latter theater of war the
last twenty-four hours brought sud-
den resumption Of the offensive by tho
Russians and Rumantans. Bucharest
ANNOUNCED the capture OF five villages
Iabout fifteen miles north Of Constanxa-
lCernovada road.
! Berlin said the Russian right wing
in the Dobrudja had been thrown
back by the Bulgarians.