DOWNFALL OF FALKENHAYN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 5

DOWNFALL OF FALKENHAYN

HINDENBURG SUCCEEDS RUMANIANS IN BATTLE FIERCE FIGHTING THE . \. ' • . . ; GREEK KING'S AUTHORITY ; V/ GONE : - . j It has been.a week of sensational war news. First, tho Italian - declaration of war on Germany; then .Rumania's, decision to fight for the Allies; now comes one froni Germany—General von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff, tho gambler-soldier, who las gambled with armies and human' lives very much as in more peaceful days he wasted his substance at cards, has been dismissed. Ctenld one ask for a more convincing proof of the Allies'.': successes? Von Hindenburg will euccced the deposed favourite of the Kaiser. The Rumanian offensive is developing in tlio mountains of Transylvania, ■ I where a fierce conflict for the possession of the passes info' Hungary is in progress. Rumania is well prepared for war; she can raise over a million men, and has : vast stores of equipment and munitions —ample, indeed, for'eight months ahead. Tho nature of.the country in which the Rumanian troops are operating is so difficult that progress foi- some time will be slow. .Meanwliilo, in the neighbouring : State of Bulgaria, a crisis is smouldering. The advent of Rumanialias led the Bulgarian. Government to consider eventualities, amongst which are mentioned the dismissal of King and the installation of tho Russophile Prince Boris—in short, a volte face. Greece . has got beyond the authority of King Constantine, who is stated to have communicated this pleasing intelligence to the Kaiser. The military operations on the various war fronts disclose nothing of material importance. Ori the' West, on tlio East, in the Trentino, and • '' the Careo, and on the British front in the Balkans, the warfare i 6of a. routine nature. On the French front in the Balkans there is great : artillery activity. ■