The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-07
ROUMANIANs STOP
BULGARS SOUTH
OF DANUBE
In Northern R0umania German
Make New Gains
HARD FIGHTING IN FRANCE
Germans Appear to Have Held Their
Lines in Spite of Fierce Assaults
From French and British.

After a week or more OF doubt
concerning the operations in the
Dobrudia region of Rumania, where
the forces of the Teutonic allies had
been marching almost unimpeded
northward across the province from
the Black sea to the Danube, comes
the report that the Rumanians have
now taken the offensive, probably
aided by Russians, and compelled the
Teutonic allies to retreat at several
points.
On the Transylvanian front, now
ever. the Rumanians in the jul valley
who for some time had been holding
the upper hand over the Austro-Ger-
mans, forcing them to give ground,
have now been stopped, the Teutons
having brought up reinforcements. In
the Predeal pass region, after heavy
fighting, the Rumanians also have met
with a reverse, being compelled to re-
treat after long and stubborn battles.
All along the battle line in France,
between the Somme and Ancre rivers,
the Germans are tenaciously disputlng
attempts by the British and French
to gain further ground. Berlin says
that in Sundays fighting over
front of 12 miles the French 'and
British suffered heavy casualties and
won nothing except local gain In the
ST. Pierre Vaast wood. London admits
that the British were compelled to
give back to the Germans part of the
ground they had previously won at
the Butte de Warlencourt. In the ST.
Pierre Vast wood. however, the
French, Monday, made further ad-
vance in the northern part of the wood
and captured additional prisoners, 500
of whom were taken in the fighting OF
Sunday and yesterday.
Rome reports that the Austrians are
bringing up heavy reinforcements on
the battle front north of Trieste. Here
the Austrians apparently have taken
the offensive, but nowhere have they
been able to regain any of their lost
positions, according to Rome.
London, Nov. GA British subma
rine operating in the North Sea re-
ports that she fired torpedoes at Ger
man battleship of the dreadnaught
type yesterday, making hit. The
amount of damage inflicted is not
known the Admiralty announces. The
announcement follows:
One of our submarines operating
in tie North Sea reports that she fired
torpedoes at a German battleship of
the dreadnaught type near the Danish
coast yesterday. The vessel was hit.
The amount of damage is unknown"
London, Nov 6.--Lloyd's announces
that the steamship Lanao, described
by the shipping agency as an Ameri-
can vessel, was sunk on Oct. 2S by
submarine. (The Lanao was recently
transferred from American to Norwe-
gian registry.) Thirty men from the
Lanao were landed at Barry by the
Norwegian steamship Tromp
German submarines have been ac-
tive for some weeks off the Spanish
coast, where the Lanao seems to have
been sunk. One submarine command
er was credited with the statement
that he had received orders to sink all
vessels bound for England. Spanish
vessels, it is said, were later exempted
on undertaking to carry nothing but
fruit.
Rome, Nov. 6, (via Paris )-Exploits
of Italian torpedo boats in entering
the Austrian seaport of Pola and the
Albanian port of Durazzo are told by
an official bulletin issued today. 1t
reads:
italian torpedo boats daringly pene-
trated the anchorage of the Austrian
fleet at Pola and ineffectively fired
two torpedoes at large warship and
returned unscathed after making