On the Eastern Front the enemy, having recovered all Galicia
except Brody and most of Bukowina, is concentrating his energies against the Rumanians on the Lower Sereth. Marshal von Mackensen's offensive, which began about August 7th north of Fornani and in the Carpathian foothills up the Trotus Valley to the north-west, compelled the Rumanians to abandon their promising attack on the passes further north, and to fall back slowly to the Sereth Valley lest their retreat should be cut off. In heavy fighting against a large German army, the Rumanians have held their own on their right wing at Ocna on the Trotus. But their centre at Marasesti, on the Sereth, is being pressed back, and the vital loop-line connecting their Sereth and Ocna railways with the main route to Jassy and Russia seems to have been cut by the enemy. The position, however, may yet be restored.
