THE RUMANIAN FRONT.
RUSSIAN TROOPS FIGHTING WELL. Eeuter's Telegrams. (Received August 13, 2 p.m.) ODESSA, August 12. Enemy operations on the Rumanian front are rapidly diminishing in intensity owing to heavy losses and the desperate resistance of the Russians, who only fall back unwillingly in obedience to strategic necessity. RUMANIAN AND RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association tnd Reutor. LONDON, August 12. A wireless Russian official message eays : Following stubborn attacks the Rumanians retired to Okna, along the Enile-Moshoreli road and westward of Gorozesce. Superior enemy forces attacked the t ocsani-Merechesc railway and we coun-ter-attacked and took twelve hundred prisoners. Later we retired to Crechese Furceni. We captured an enemy jwsition at the mouth of the Bugeo ftiive-.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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