Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-18
Russian Attack Fails.

BERLIN. January 1s. by wireless to
Sayville-An attack made by the Rus
slams yesterday on the northern Ru-
manian front south of the oituz road
broke down under the German fire. the
war Office announces.
Bulgarian artillery has been vigor-
ously bombarding from the Doprudoa
side Of the Danube hostile shipping in
that stream and entente military posi-
tions on the opposite side, in the vicinity
of Galata. according to the Bulgarian
headquarters report of January 16.
Our artillery on the right bank of
the Danube set on fire the railway sta
ton at Barbochie and also shelied the
road from Galatz to Dzudzuleshti. on
which large columns of troops and cars
were observed.
"Near Isacha our artillery up to this
time has sunk seven tugboats and one
small torpedo boat"
Bodies Drift Down River.
Regarding recent developments in the
Run,anian campaign the military critic
of the Overseas News Agency writes:
"All the Russian counter attacks at
the mouth of the Sereth and near the
Fundeni bridgehead have failed with
heavy lossee and the bodies of numer-
ous dead Russians who tried to escape
across the Sereth and were drowned
are drifting down the river.
'The Russians attempted by local
attacks to regain their liberty OF ac-
ton on the south bank OF the Sereth
after having lost their base there Tor
an offensive on a scale which they
might hope would result in breaking
the ring formed by the troops Of the
central powers. With Sereth at their
backs the Russians are clinging to the
bridgehead of Fundeni and to some
land, interspersed with pools and
riyuiets and therefore possess neither
the space nor the opportunity for an
efficient counter offensive, and all their
attempts to extend their field of opera
tions by throwing in fresh regiments.
rapidly concentrated. have failed.
thanks to the stubbornness of the de-
fense offered by the troops of the
central powers.
According to prisoners. the roads
behind the Russian front still are
crowded with Rumanian refugees and
the railways are blocked in large sec
tions by the material under transport.
Prisoners taken from the 9th Russian
army are a unit in declaring that many
cases of cholera had occurred among
the Russians in Dobrudja."
Enemy Attacks Weaken.
LONDON, January 1s.-A Reuter- dis
patch from Jassy, the temporary Ru-
manian capital, dated January 16. says
that, according to latest official COM
munications, the Germano-Bulgarian
offensive has slackened greatly on the
whole front, the attacks being rarer
and less furious
On the occasion of the orthodox New
Year the King of Rumania issued an
army order congratulating the troops
on their valor and expressing conf
dence in the future.
Sign of Teutonic Failure.
The resumption of the issuing of Ru-
manian official communications on the
progress of the campaign. after a sus-
pension of some time. is regarded here
as a sign that the Teutonic failure to
progress beyond the Sereth marks the
limit of the central allies advance
The Rumanian communications re-
ceiyed in Paris by wireless on Wednes-
day claimed the repulSe with great
losses of the enemy's counter attacks
and a successful activity by the Russo
Rumanian Danube fiotilla.
The opinion is expressed in some
quarters here that the acceptance by
Greece of the entente ultimatum is a
reaction, because of the supposed check
of the Teutonic allies on the Rumanian
front