The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-25
TEUT0NIC ALLIES SING
 AS THEY RAKE MOUNTAIN l TRENCHES OF RUMAN|ANS

At the Head of Predeal Pass, Ru- manian Frontier, With General Won Faikenhayn's army. Oct. IS, by Cou- rier te Berlin, via London, Oct. 25.- In yesterdays battle around Predeal Jass The Associated Press correspon- dent visited various German and Hun garian battery positions where the men went at their work in almost a kept up a fearful bombardment of the opposing positions in the campaign for the invasion of Rumania. The ment went at their work in almost a holiday spirit for 1t is with @ sense of deep relief that the Germans and Hungarians here, officers and men alike, have left behind them the trench warfare of other regions and thrown themselves in the open field maneuvers against the Rumanians.
 It was scarcely believable that after two years of strenuous life at the front, infantrymen could rush to the assault with, songs, yet it is a fact to which the universal feeling here of dealing with a foe who has yet to learn every trick of modern warfare contributes much. Though the German and Hun garian infantrymen were lOath to rush in the fire of Rumanian rifles and ma chine guns they viewed the situation complacently, saying that the worst of open field work was preferable to trench drudgery. Officers explained that the change virtually would make the troops fresh forces owing to the novelty and the greater opportunity for initiative on the part of the men, and also to the fact that after all the troops pf the 3central powers are best suited for maneuvertng because of the training they have received along the line.
 The Predea1 battle is one of the few open field actions witnessed in this war by the correspondents who are able to approach within less than 5000 yards of the skirmishing line with the artil- lery in the rear. At Il o'clock in the morning, German artillery opened a desultory fire on the Rumanian trench es of Susaiul Mountain. 5000 feet high which an hour later reached it's max imum fury.
 The fire was then directed mainly against the trenches some 500 feet be- low the summit. For a quarter of an hour the Rumanians stuck to their trenches, the artillery fire then show ing merely line of individual shell clouds. Word coming from the artil- lery spotters in the skirmishing line that the Rumanians thus far seemingly had not been impressed, the German artillery increased the fire so that a few minutes afterwards the smoke from the shells mingled in a cloud bank. The Rumanian infantry still held on for a. time but finally broke across the slope like a swarm of ants as the German and Hungarian infantry lowed up the fleeing Rumanians with came in view. German artillery fol- shrapnel, and the manner in which the fire pursued the Rumanians appeared almost uncanny.
 On a ridge leading from Susaiul Mountain the Rumanians finally reached their second position. A sec ond Hull ensued. A few seconds be- fore 2 P. M., it was decided to resume operations. German artillery, now ably supported by some Hungarian batteries, repeated the work of the morning and then the infantry rushed forward and in comparatively short time the objective was gained.