The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-27
TEUTON|C RUSH
NOT so STRONG
Russo ROumanianS Check
Advancing Enemy.
SITUATION VERY CRITICAL
Military Comme ntators in. Berlin Con-
slider Roumanian Situation lncreas
tro-German Gains of the Past Week.


London. Oct. 27.-The situation OF
the defeated Russo-Roumanian army
in Dobrudja appears slightly less
critical in the light of the days ofii.
cial report from Petrograd. which de.
scribes the pressure of Field Marshal
Won Mackensen's armies as some.
what weakened.
The pressure of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen's army in Dobrudja against
the Russian and Roumanian forces
has weakened somewhat, the war of.
fee says.
Russian troops in the wooded Car
pathians are successfully withstand
ing Teutonic assaults, it is added. and
there 1t reports the repulse OF an at
tack on the height northwest of Capul
mountain in that region.
On the Transylvanian front, the
statement says, Roumanian troops ar
rested the progress of superior Aus
tro-German forces.
Unofficial dispatches from Berlin re-
port that the entente forces were split
into two parts with the fall of Tcher-
navoda, some of the troops escaping
over the great bridge across the Dan
ube, while the other fed northward in
Dobrudja
AS whole the situation for Rouma-
MIA is considered by military com.
mentators In Berlin as increasingly
pTecarious in connection with the op-
erations In Dobrudja and the Austro
German successes in the mountain
passes on the north.
Teutonic troops have pushed their
way further into Roumanian territory
on the northern front, according TO the
days German announcement. Ground
has been gained on the road to Sinaya.
The capture by Roumanians OF
nian front south of Bicaz, is announc-
ed by the Roumanian war office.
Germans Cease Attacks
On the Western front the Germans
are reported by Paris to have ceased
their counter attacks at Verdun, fol
lowing the French drive which result
ed in the recapture of Fort Douau-
mont and the advance of the French
lines along a wide front in this sec.
tor.
The new French positions, which
are declared to have been held intact.
still are under German artillery fire,
however.
French military writer's declare that
the position of Fort Vaux is such that
its capture by the French Is momen-
tarily expected.
In Macedonia new entente advances
are announced. French cavalry has
occupied the villages of Golobrda and
Laisitsa, In the vicinity of the Greco
Albanian border. while the Serbians
have driven the Bulgarians and Ger
mans further back in the region of
the Cerna river, southeast of Monas-
tir, according to Paris.
Capture by the Russians of the town
Of Bijar, in Persia northwest of HUI
fee.
Turkish troops surprised the Brit
ish camp near Shrikh Saad. on the
Tigris river below Kut-el-Amara, and
penetrated the British trenches. ac-
cording to the official statement of the
Turkish war department. After cap
turing quantity OF arms and supplies,
the statement adds, the Turks return
ed to their own positions.
Russian battalions made an ad-
vance without artillery preparation
against the German positions to the
west Of Lutsk, in volhynia. says the
German official statement. The
storming Russian waves. the state
ment adds, broke under the German
artillery fire.