The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-12-14
GERMANS DRIVE
FOE ETONEW FRONT
TEUToNs SEIZE 5000 RouMANIANs
IN SURPRISE BATTLE ON
ALT LINE.
BATTLE NEAR STRAVINA
FRENCH DRIVE GERMANS OUT OF
TRENCHES OF HILL 3o4
NEAR VERDUN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Greece appears to be on the verge
of revolt against the allies. Ameri-
can minister confers with the King.
Entente ultimatum handed to Con
stantine. Twenty thousand men un-
der arms in and near Athens and
more than 1000 Venizelists impris-
F, oned. Teutonic allies progressing in
Rumania, but Petrograd asserts Ru.
manians have forced a retreat north.
east of Bucharest. Berlin admits loss
of height on Transylvanian frontier.
Berlin records repulse of heavy attack
by entente forces near Monastir.
London, Dec. 9.-The rounding up
of Rumanian troops is being contin-
ued by the Teutonic forces. The latest
statement by the German war office
announces the capture of 5000 addi-
tional prisoners together with &c guns.
Seemingly the Rumanians and such
Russian troops as were aiding them
are still on the retreat northeastward.
and military commentators for the
most part do not expect a stand to be
Ildue ny lue ftuIuaulduS DelOTe lue
line of the Buzeu river is reached.
This line virtually closes the neck
of the province of Moldavia, running
eastward from the Hungarian frontier
to Galata on the lower Danube, near
the Bessarabian border. 1t is regarded
as a strong defensive line and one cas-
lily susceptible of reinforcement from
Russian sources
On the Franco Belgian front the
only recent operation of note has been
in the Verdun region, where the Ger
mans claimed the capture of the sum-
NIT of Hill 80, west of the Meuse.
Then PaFis announces that the Ger
mans have been driven from a section
of the trenches on the eastern slopes
OF Hill 304." which they had occupied.
In Macedonia the Bulgarians are vi
olently contesting the efforts of the
Serbians to make further advances
east of Monastir.
Berlin, Dec. bucharest, capital OF
Rumania, was captured, 1t was Off
cially announced
Ploechti. the important railway
JuhStioh toWh, tulTty-SlX IulleS hui III
west of Bucharest, also has been
taken.
The capture of Ploechti finds the
Teutonic allies in control of about 50..
900 square miles OF Rumanian terri.
tory-virtually one-half of the king
dom-running from the Transylvanian
Alps northwest of the capital to the
Danube south of 1t and a large part
of Dobrudja
The conquest OF this city places In
the hands of the invaders the last rail-
read in the West and gives to them
the head of the line running north
ward to Jassy where the capital OF
Rumania is now situated.
No details have yet come through
concerning the climax to the great
drive of the armies of Gen. Won Falk-
enhayn and FIELD Marshal Won Mack
ensen. or whether the Rumanians and
Russians escaped successfully behind
the Bucharest line.
With the fall of Bucharest the CEN
trail powers are now in possession of
four capitals of entente allied states,
the others being Brussels. Belgrade,
and Cettinje.
West of Jablonitza the Russians oc-
cupied height, but later were shelled
offshe position by the Germans.
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provement and maintenance during
the fiscal year of 1918, OF rivers and
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