The five-day battle has been in process in Eastern Wallachia has resulted in the surrender of the Russian lines at several points, army headquarters today. The Russians were deliberately defeated on a front of seventeen kilometers southwest of Umdurk-Sarat. Several fortified positions have been captured by the Teutonic Danube army, and the Russians have been forced to retreat to prepared positions farther north. A total of 100 prisoners and twenty-seven machine guns have been captured since December 21 by the Ninth Army and more than 1,300 prisoners by the Danube Army.

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