FIFTY HOURS OF HARD FIGHTING
ENEMY ATTACK NEAR IRON GATES
(Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.)
ROME, 31st August. The Messageros' Petrograd correspondent states that the initial fighting between the Rumanians and Hungarians on the southern Tijansylyanian frontier raged for fifty hours on a wide front. 'The right wing easily occupied Kronstadt, but the centre and left wing were stubbornly resisted, especially at Vaillemento. The Rumanians forced all the passes, and advanced to Venistovo.
The Hungarians violently attacked in the Iron Gate region,' and were ,driven back with many losses.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 5
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