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Infantry.WWI – Part Six: Tsarist Russia and the War. See an original image at:
<http://www.marxist.com/wwi-part-six-tsarist-russia-and-the-war.htm>
[Accessed 22 January 2017]
News via neutral
communications
Of 4 and 5
January, seeped through
Into news print,
to tell of central
Powers frontline
antics.
The Bulgarian
city of Sofia informed
Amsterdam that in
Dobrudja regions,
Of Romanian front,
made extremes
Of exchanges with
Russia.
Bulgarians Fourth
Preslav Division
Clashed with
Russian forces,
With hand to hand
bayonet
Exchanges at Lake
Jijila.
There, on the
edge of the Danube,
Russian
resistance had become
Divided, making
entry to Macin
Town taking
prisoners.
Parallel to this
the central powers
Edged into Dobrudja
at Braila
And Galatz - the
allies made
Some small
progress.
German and Austro
Hungarian
Numbers pushed
through south
Of Latinul on
river Buzeu, with
Many prisoners
taken.
Further
unfamiliar place names
To include
Romniceni, where
German troops
overran
Roumanian
villages.
Harja, Soveja
east of Negulesci
And NW in heights
of Odebesci,
Allies made
reports of success,
Fighting back the
invaders.
January 3 1917, Russian positions
In Kotumba region
had repelled
Eastern front
enemy, about
River valley of
Tatroch.
On a level above
Chebonicha river,
Over five
occasions the central
Powers pushed at
Russian
Held ground, only
to fail.
In the Roumanian
coutryside
Of other river
plates, Kasino
And Oitoz north and
south,
Held back three
attacks.
Near other water
flows of Putna
Zabala, east of
Toposchik,
Displaced the
Russian
Detachments.
At Norucha 8
miles south east,
Roumanians were to
be also
Pushed back by
enemy
Advance attempts.
Though Romanian
army, nearly
10 miles away
from Focsani,
Pushed back enemy
attacks
In the Koproria
region.
With ebb and flow
of the Eastern
Frontline, the
Roumanian troops
Were being
heavily affected;
200,00 wounded
and dead.
Another 150
soldiers were taken
Prisoners, as
areas of their
Country succumbed
To the invaders.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1917. Enemy Reports. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 6 January 1917. P.7. Col.1-2.
Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214075/Daily-Telegraph-January-6-1917.html>
[Accessed: 22 January 2017].
Source: File: Bulgaria During World War I.
Wikipedia. Available at:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_I> [Accessed 22
January 2017]
Source: File: Romani During World War I.
Wikipedia. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_I#1917_campaign_and_armistice>
[Accessed 22 January 2017]
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
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