4 AUGUST 1917, Page 1

The Rumanian Army is pureeing with coneiderable success the offensive

which it began last week in the Eastern Carpathians. In the Upper Putna and Casio Valleys the Austrians have been driven from a series of fortified hills with heavy lessee. On a front of thirty-seven mike, they fell back to a distance of ten or twelve miles, leaving four thousand five hundred prisoners and ninety-eight guns in the hands of the Rumanians. The attack is directed towards the pass which leads to the town of Kezdy Vaaarhely. It has evidently embarrassed the enemy, who has no troops to spare for reinforcing a new battle-front at this critical time.