New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-17
U,B0ATCAPTURES
5 U.S.. Navy men
SUBMARINE SENT DOWN AFTER
RAID ON AMERICAN CRAFT
BOUND FOR BREST.
% KILLED IN AIR RAID
SLAvS BLOCK BORDER ATTACK,
THEN TAKE 1900 PRISONERS
IN COUNTER DRIVE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Berlin, Aug. A. Troops under
Field Marshal o Mackensen cap
tured the Rumanian town Of Pantziu
a railroad junction in southern Mol
davia, which had been desperately de
Tended by the Russo-Rumanian forces
London.-In Flanders the Anglo
French are resting preparatory to an
other assault. The Germans must
make new efforts to hold the salient
east of Ypres, say war experts.
German airplanes which raided the
southeast coast of England Sunday
had London as their objective, but
British airplanes blocked them. Two
raiders were brought down by Eng.
fish flyers. Berlin admits the loss of
two machines and Amsterdam reports
that a German machine was forced to
land in Dutch territory.
The American bark Christiane has
been sunk off the Azores by a Ger
man submarine. The crew vas
landed.
London,-A day of great political
excitement in London concluded with
the announcement that George Nicoll
Barnes, minister of pensions, had
been appointed to replace Arthur
Henderson as labor member of the
War Cabinet.
Washington, Aug. 13.-The Navy
Department announced that the
Standard Oil Tanker Campana, an
American steamer. was sunk by a
submarine on the morning of Aug. G.,
143 miles west of lie de Re. Forty
seven survivors reached land in
safety.
ut is believed the captain Of the
steamer and four armed guards are
prisoners on board the German sub.
marine" -
An Atlantic Port.-Another German
submarine has been sunk by the guns
of a merchantmen, II the gunners Of
4 British freighter which arrived here
are correct in their assumption that
three shots which struck an undersea
boat off Brest, France, sent her to the
bottom. The Britisher encountered
the submarine on her last outward
trip from this port.
One shot destroyed the periscope.
The second and third were followed
by an explosion and the submarine
disappeared. The gunners were con.
fident the submarine went down In.
voluntarily.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS engagements
are being fought by the Russo-R una.
MAN forces and Austro-German armies
along the Rumanian front. In the
OF this battle line, according to
the Russian official statement, Rus.
slams and Rumanians repulsed strong
attacks along the Fokshani'
Marasechti railroad, then counter-at.
and captured 1900 Germans,
to retire later.
III oOuluW coIcTu MOludVId Tie nus
took the offensive, smashed the
lines and captured a number
Of prisoners and four guns.
In western Moldavia the Austro.
Germans, after battles of great intens.
ity, forced the Rumanians to retire
10 Ocna. -
Berlin.-Field Marshal Won Macken.
sens forces, fighting in central Ru.
mania, took over 600 Russian and
prisoners and captured
eighteen cannon and sixty-one ma.
chine guns. The German general staff
that the Austro-G Germans did
lose a foot of ground.
In western Moldavia the Austro.
Germans stormed the village of Gro,
and also captured the dominat.
ng height positions. Bitter Russo-Ru.
n attacks were repulsed,
says the German statement, which
ldds that the fresh enemy forces "bled
themselves to death"
Additional Japanese units have
oined the allied forces in European