Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-29

DOrn swirl ana alOHS tne lines expect
ed. Gathering up his seven or eight
divisions. provided with very heavy
mobile. artillery. he pushed straight
north, took Turtukan, on the Danube,
less than forty miles south of Bucch-
first of the two Rumanian divisions left
in the Dobrudja, and a day or two later
sent the second in wild flight from
Silistria, twenty miles down the river.
Here was situation that could not be
neglected. 1t was now necessary to re-
call from Pennsylvania some of the
troops which had been having holiday
parade toward Hermanstadt and in the
upper Alt valley. With a hostile army
almost within range of the Rumanian
capital and threatening both a blow at
the capital and a thrust across the vital
railroad line to ConstanZa. the defense
Of the homeland became more pressing
than the invasion of the promised land.
By the second week in September. then,
we have patent slackening of the in
vasion of Pennsylvania. stiffening of
the resistance in the Dobrudja. where
Mackensen is temporarily halted ten
miles south of the Constanza railroad.
Two things have happened. Rumanian
troops have been recalled from the north
and Russian troops have at last arrived
from the Russian territory beyond the
least. coming by boat from Odessa and
Sebastopol. possibly even from the eau
casus. and landing at Constanza.
New Teutonic Army Appears.
But now new force appears. For the
first weeks there has been a frank con-
fession in Berlin and Vienna official state
ments that the evacuation Of Transyl-
vania south of the Maros was in prog
ress: there have been reports Of the fee
ing of Hungarian and Saxon populations
and Bucharest has announced monoto-
nous succession of villages. towns and
even cities which have received Rou-
manian mayors and been rejoined to the
Roman fatherland. In the closing days
of September. however. Vienna and Ber-
lin again become exultant.
What happened is clear, In the broader
lines Somewhere in Germany there had
been gathering great new army. de-
Russians in Galicia and regain the ground
lost In the spring drive, thus removing the
threat of Lemberg. This army had been
the retiring h chief e Of the German general
stan. and dispatched to Transylvania
when the Rumanian attack provoked
passionate appeal for aid directed from
Budapest to Berlin.
The Rumanian invasion Of Pennsylvania
had come up from the south through three
principal passes or groups of passes in
the Transylvanian Alps. To the west a
column had penetrated through the vul-
can pass, taken the important town Of
Petroseny and approached Hatseg. East
ward second column had penetrated
Red Tower gorge and reached the envi-
rons Of the considerable city of Hermann
stadt. Still farther to the east another
force had come north through the two
passes of Tomos and Predeal. through
the latter Of which runs the Bucharest
Budapest railroad had taken the i'm
portant city of Kronstadt and advanced
considerably to the north. Another con-
siderable invasion had been directed from
the east by several passes. notably the
Gymes, through which a railroad goes
ard had entered the upper Maros valley
Took One at a Time,
Falkenhayn first struck the column
to the west. north of Vulcan pass. re-
pulsed 1t and drove 1t straight back
through Petroseny and into Rumanian
territory. Then he withdrew his main
force from this quarter and delivered
a heavier blow on the army which had
come up through the Red Tower gorge
This army he defeated by frontal at
clever enveloping movement right
feated army escaped over the noun
manian territory. while the rest fed
| blow Of Falkenhayn was delivered at