The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-08
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European, War" News

European, War" News
From a trusted source in PetrOgrad
the Chicago Daily News receives the
cabled message that 'henceforth COM
munications should be addressed to
Odessa, not to Bucharest" This is be-
heved to convey the yelled informa-
ton that the Roumanian government
Is fleeing or preparing to flee out of
its imperiled country to the Russian
city of Odessa.
Official announcement was made at
Berlin Of the capture of CZernavoda,
In Dobrudja, by the army under Field
Marshal Won Mackensen. Vulcan pass
is now in the hands of the Austro- Ger
mans.
In a powerful series Of attacks on
the Verdun front the French have cap
turcd the village and fort Of Douau-
mont, advanced beyond the Thiau-
mont work and farm, and occupied
also the Haudromont quarries, north
of Verdun, according to the bulletin
issued by the Paris war Office. Thirty
five hundred prisoners were taken.
A new type of warfare has developed
on the SOmme front. The French war
office communique issued at Paris said
that a French aviator flew over the
German trenches at St. Pierre Vaast
wood and when above them opened fire
upon the German soldiers with ma
chine gun.
French aviators on Tuesday fought
20 battles in the air over the western
front. Three German machines were
shot down, the Paris war office an
nounced.
Baron Newton, under-secretary for
foreign affairs, announced in the house
Of lords at London that the British and
German governments had agreed to
exchange all informed prisoners over
the age Of forty-tive.
The 1toumanian Danube town of
Resova has been captured by Field
Marshal Won Mackensen's left wing in
the Dobrudja, the German war office
announced at Berlin. Seventy-five Off
GERS and G,G93 men were captured. The
town of Medjdie also was occupied by
Mackcnsen's army. The Roumanian
town Of Predeal has been captured by
General Won Falkenhayn's army.
In an attempt to break through the
German lines on the Somme at any
cost, the British and French used great
numbers Of troops in repeated attacks,
the Berlin war office announced. Their
assaults broke down, with heavy losses.
The dead are lying in one row after
another
The repulse Of the Russian forces
from the western bank of the River
Narayuvke in Galicia has been CON-
pleted, says the official statement is
sued in Berlin. At ?redeal pass, on the
41OIl, s'OO
were captured.
Four tons Of projectiles have been
dropped by French air squadron of
"a machines on blast furnaces north of
Metz and on the Metz and Thionville
stations, the Paris war Office an
nounced
COnstanZa, Roumania's greatest sea-
port, has fallen before Field Marshal
Won MackenSen's armies, it was official
~ announced at Berlin. Capture Of the
city and fortress is the greatest single
achievement for the central powers
since Roumania entered the war, eight
weeks ago.
The Bulgarian defenses at the mouth
of the Struma river, in northeastern
Greece, were bombarded by an entente
allied fleet, says a dispatch from ST.
1oniki.