The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-06

noId1ng thin line between SchaSSburg
and Hermannstadt
FALKENHAYN'S GREAT RIVE
! The operations were to begin with a
shattering blow at the Hermannstadt
group by General Won Falkenhayn, The
exit from the Red Tower pass (behind
/ HermannstadD was to be closed and
both armies were to strike eastwards
/ The Hermannstadt blow succeeded
BY the 26th of September the Alpine
corps, in long thanking march, had
| pushed forward to the Red Tower pass
| in the rear of the enemy whereupon
the main body of the 9th army attacked
! on both sides of Hermannstadt Our
force was weak, and the battle lasted
until the 30th.
| The Rumanians offered an obstinate
resistance and also attacked the Alpine
corps from the south However the
Rumanian main forces moved too late
and could not prevent the complete
overthrow of a part of their army at
Hermannstadt
! dudendorff gives scant space to the
remarkable achievements of the man
who had Inundated him. The Red
| Tower victory not only made all Ger
many flame with the first joy it had
that summer, but was of the greatest
Importance in the Rumanian Campaign
The march of the Alpine corps through
rugged mountains on which the Ru-
manians though impossible took the
foe completely by surprise. The AL
plnlsts closed the pass and threw the
rest OF the Rumanian army into a
panic, which made it's defeat easier 1t
could not retreat through the pass and
was scattered in the mountains. This
defeat forced Rumania to weaken its
forces In the Dobrudja and paved the
way for Mackensen's further advance)
RUMANIANS DRIVEN OUT
, The Alpine corps. reinforced by Aus
TRAN mountain formations which were
now arriving took over the duty Of
covering the right flank of the army a.
the Rotenturm pass. General Won Fal.
kenhayn hims self Immediately started
his army on it's eastward march keen
ing to the north of the mountain. rid ge.
To add to the pressure here the S9th
German division of the LIST army was
pushed forward past and to the west
OF Schassburg, to join the 9th army
General Won ARR started off simultan-
eousiy. The opposing armies were thus
conyerging on one another.
At the outset the Rumanians were
able to record success in the center
They we're, however, beaten by the 9th
army south of Fogaras, and in a bril-
liant pursuit lasting to October TO-
were thrown back through the Geister-
Valid and Kronstadt to Campulunss
Sinaia and Buzau in the mountains
south or kronstadt (across the Ru-
manian frontier)
The pressure which the 9th army
thus brought to bear was so strong
that the Rumanians further north also
began to retreat. and the Austrian
army was enabled gradually to ascend
to the frontier mountains of Moldavia
Ludendorff planned to bag the main
part of the Rumanian army by a bold
stroke across the Pennsylvania Alps
and the lower Danube. His German
troops did their part. but the Aus
TRANS failed MIN again. SO he had to
change his strategy and find more
troops to carry out his scheme to get
the Rumanian food and oil he so badly
needed. These things he tells in the
next installment
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