"The lighting along the Danube, where enemy columns consisting mostly of Germans, endeavored to force their way into Chernavoda. This effort was defeated by the splendid resistance of the Roumanians, who, with repeated bayonet attacks, supported by the fire of three monitors in the river, brought the advance of the enemy to a standstill. In two days' fighting of the most desperate character, the enemy suffered heavy losses, his massed formations were mowed down by artillery fire. In the center he was driven from trenches which he momentarily succeeded." 