SERETH BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2970, 6 January 1917, Page 7

SERETH BATTLE

GUNS & PRISONERS CAPTURED PEACE MANOEUVRE . GERMANY'S FEAR (OF'ECONOMIC ' RUIN ■ BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK UNSATISFACTORY OUTLOOK IN . ■GREECE A great battle lias opened on the Sereth line, in Rumania. 'According to French experts it will detormino the issue of the whole Rumanian campaign. At one point the Russians have capturcd 600 prisoners and a number of guns. An important success has been gained'by the British forces in East Africa, where good progress is bciug made in rounding up the enemy contingents remaining at large. Only small events are reported in other laud theatres. The Admiralty . announce , that'tho British transport Ivernia, a.14,000-ton Cunarder, was sunk in the Mediterranean during bad weather. More than 150 ■ lives were lost. BATTLE OF THE SERETH BEGUN ITS GREAT IMPORTANCE , • WILL DETERMINE THE ISSUE OF THE RUMANIAN •/, ' . ' ' CAMPAIGN. - (By Telegraph.—Pxess Association— Copyright). ' London, January 4. French military experts are of opinion that tho Battle of tho Sereth lia's now begun, and will determine the issue of tho whole Rumanian campaign. Almost everything depends on the resistance of the Russo-Rumanian right wing.—Router. ' . N -. -•'.■■■ SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN ATTACK SOUTHWARD OF MOUNT BOTOCH. London, Januarv 4. • A wireless Russian official message states: ."We. attacked tho heights-on the Rum an ian front southward of-Mount Botoch, and took prisoner six hundred men, and captured three cannon and sixteen niachine.-giins."—Aus.'-ItZ. Cable Assn.-Reuter. - • -■ "• •' ... ' ■/ The Highi'Commissioner. reports:— ' •» • London, January 4, 2.10 p.m.' ■ Russian official-report:-"On the Rumanian front, on heights southward of Mount Botoch, the Russians captured'6oo prisoners,. three caunoiij sixteen machine-guns, -mine-throwers, and bomb-mortars." ■BULGARIAN FIELD:POST ANNIHILATED. ■ l London,; January 4. - A wireless Russian official message states: "After artillery fire,, we attacked on'the Botoch, aud'broke through a stubborn resistance. We repulsed six persistent attacks in'tlie Tatroch Valley, and surprised and annihilated a Bulgarian field-post in tho Dobrudia. Attacks at Matchin pressed back our detachments, which commenced to withdraw toward Braila. ,: —Aus.-N.JS. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ■ CLEARANCE OF THE DOBEUDJA CLAIMED. ... London,. January 4. > A wireless German official message -says:'. "General von Mackensen' con- ; l.quercd, a;sector north-west of Focsani, and'repulsed a strong forco of Russian cavalry westward of the. mouth of. .the -Buzeu;. ; ' "Germans and. Bnlga-rs stormed and captured the stubbornly-defended villages. cf'Maftliin and Jijila, and took ] 000' prisoners. 'This"clears- the • Dob-r.iidja',-.fexebpt a. nirrpir strip, in "the direction of . G'alatz, where the Russian 'rearguards are holding -ground."—Aus.-is T .Z. Cable "Assn.-Reuter." ' - ' London, January 4. Jtlie capture of MakMn virtually ends the defence of the Dobrudj'aV tho Russians haying.evacuated all hilt a narrow belt between the marshes and the Danube." The Bulgariansand Germans-have thus been'enabled to bring thejr forces within eight miles east-of Braila, but-the advance of, tho enemy lias been so retarded that it is safe to assume that the granaries have been removed.—"The Times;" •- •■ . • - . ' VON HINDENBURG'S PROPHECY. ' •'" " Paris, January 4. / The "Echo de Paris" recalls von Hindenburg's prophecy, prior ,to the peace manoeuvres, that there will not be winter' quarters in Russia this' year. ■ He is now. trying to fulfil the prophecy by aiming at: Odessa, via GalaW' and Reni. Tho Germans have promised Bulgaria the coast of the Black Sea to Odessa, in order to dissipato Russia's hope of advancing to' Constantinople.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . ■